review

Both for research and for the many families involved in the Converge project, 2011 was a fantastic year. With GreenDependent in Hungary leading, the team researched initiatives that are convergent - i.e. are performing activities that are towards greater fairness and sustainability. It was a pleasure to develop our feeling for how Convergence is allready taking place in the real world, and to explore the work of these inspirational organisations. We look forward to sharing their stories and how they are part of the Convergence side of sustainable development later this year.

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We also spent some time with the guidance of the Natural Step International in Sweden investigating how communities are engaging people - what it is that gathers people around a project. We hope that in understanding the qualities of a good engagement we can support the wider uptake of sustainable development through convergence by offering a guide to how engagement is allready taking place.