In November last year, the project "Promoting local community action to enhance health and well-being" was launched in the Basque Country, financed by the European Union and with technical advice from the OCDE. This project is being developed by various institutions, agents and entities that operate at the community level in the Basque Country.

In this context, on 2 July 2024 we participated in the panel discussion "What lessons or strong ideas can be derived for the Basque Country?" at the conference "Promoting local community action to enhance health and well-being", organised by the Department of Health of the Basque Government and the OECD, with the aim of analysing the progress made so far and sharing good practices from the international arena.

The panel had various people linked to community action to bring the lessons presented throughout the day to fruition, in order to draw conclusions on how they can be applied in the context of the Basque Country. We participated together with Rosana Peiro, Coordinator of XarxaSalut; Elena Albisua Kortazar, Deputy Director of Public Health of Gipuzkoa; Rafael López Arostegi, Department of Welfare, Youth and Demographic Challenge; and Inés Urieta, who was in charge of moderating the session.

We presented our approach based on Developmental Evaluation compared to traditional evaluation systems, which allows us to monitor in real time the approach to complex challenges, and how we are already working through this approach in the field of health and care.