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Group of Eight (G8)
Main Progress Initiatives
The Young Foundation
The Young Foundation is a centre for social innovation based in London. It undertakes research to identify and understand unmet social needs and then develops practical initiatives and institutions to address them - in fields as diverse as health and education, housing and cities.
The New Economics Foundation Centre for well-being
The centre for well-being at the New Economics foundation (NEF) aims to enhance individual and collective well-being in ways that are environmentally sustainable and socially just. Its aim is to promote the concept of well-being as legitimate and useful aim of policy and to provide individuals, communities and organisations with the understanding and tools to redefine wealth in terms of well-being.
Research and Policy in Development (RAPID)
RAPID was created in 2008, ODI, United Kingdom. The programme aims to improve the use of research and evidence in development policy and practice through research, advice and debate. The programme works on four main themes: the role of evidence in policy processes; improved communication and information systems for policy and practice; better knowledge management and learning for development agencies; approaches to institutional development for evidence-based policy.
The Well-being Institute
The Well-being Institute was established in 2008 by the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. The Institute hosts three inter-connected activities:Fundamental Research (Neuroscience, Population Studies, Intervention Development);Action Research (Well-being programmes for: Children, the Workplace and Patients);Dissemination (Conferences & Workshops, Publications, Influencing Policy, Media Liaison)
The happiness formula
BBC website with links to interesting background documents and some online videos related to Happiness in the UK.
Sustainable Development - The Government's Approach - Delivering UK Sustainable Development Together
[1]Created in 2007 by the Sustainable Development Unit (SDU), United Kingdom.
Productivity and Competitiveness Indicators
The Government has identified five drivers of productivity: investment, innovation, skills, enterprise and competition. A wide-ranging programme of reforms has been initiated to boost productivity through the five drivers, including many which work across the five drivers, exploiting synergies between them.
Forum for the Future
Forum for the Future was established in 2008. We believe that humanity faces an immense challenge. We can no longer treat the planet without any thought for the future. So we’re working with over 120 leading businesses and organisations to bring about change. We are a charity committed to sustainable development.
Regional sustainable development indicators for the English regions
Regional versions of the UK Government’s indicators of sustainable development were first published in December of 2005 to help in providing a perspective of sustainable development in each region. They have been updating yearly and the last one has been published on 31st January 2008.
Official Statistics
Happiness in the United Kingdom
This is an overview of findings on Happiness in the United Kingdom.The available findings are presented in the latest ‘Nation Report’ on the United Kingdom [2]. This report is ordered by type of happiness questions and within these types by year. This ordering is to facilitate the assessment of progress, comparison over time being most fruitful using the same questions.
The report presents means and standard deviations, both on the original scale range and transformed to a common range 0-10. The means inform about the level of happiness in the country and the standard deviations about inequality of happiness.
Links provide more detail about the precise text of the question, the full distribution of responses and technical details of the survey. The report is continuously updated.
Progress, Papers and Publications
- Child wellbeing and child poverty, Where the UK stands in the European table, 2009, Child Poverty Action Group, UK
- Local Well-Being, Can we Measure it? 2007 Nicola Steuer and Nic Marks, Centre for Well-Being, New Economics Foundation, UK
- The Regeneris Sustainable Prosperity Index (SPI), 2007, Regeneris Consulting Ltd, UK
- Customer-Driven Development for Rapid Production of Assessment Learning Objects, 2006, Andrew Adams and Shirley Williams, Electronic Journal of e-Learning, United Kingdom.
- WELL-BEING, SOCIAL CAPITAL AND PUBLIC POLICY:WHAT’S NEW?, 2005, John F. Helliwell, NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, United Kingdom.
- Quality of life counts: 2004 update, 2004, UK National Statistics and UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), United Kingdom.
- Measuring Scotland's Progress Towards a Smart, Successful Scotland, 2003, The Scottish Executive, Scottish Entreprise and Highlands and Islands Entreprise, United Kingdom.
- Happiness: Has Social Science A Clue?, 2003, Richard Layard, The London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom.
