What we achieve

Green B-LEAF connects climate resilience with participatory decision-making, empowering rural communities to shape greener and more sustainable futures.

Through the project, local authorities, rural communities and young people are equipped with knowledge, tools and practical approaches to understand local climate challenges and decide together how resources can be invested to address them.

Better understanding of local climate challenges: Green B-LEAF uses hyper-local climate data and Climate Resilience Vulnerability Assessments (CRVA) to help rural communities understand the risks and vulnerabilities affecting their territories and identify locally relevant priorities for action.

More inclusive decision-making: The project promotes participatory budgeting as a way to involve citizens, young people and local stakeholders in deciding how public resources can contribute to climate resilience.

Practical tools for green participatory budgeting: Green B-LEAF develops practical resources that support municipalities and communities in designing and implementing participatory budgeting processes with a strong focus on climate resilience, including a Step-by-Step Youth Participatory Budgeting Guide, management and event guidance, and other learning resources.

Stronger local capacity: Through training, workshops and local activities, the project strengthens the capacity of municipalities, community organisations and young people to work together, understand climate challenges and develop solutions that respond to local needs.

Learning across the Mediterranean: Green B-LEAF brings together partners and communities from across the Mediterranean to exchange experiences, test approaches and learn from different local contexts. The project creates opportunities to transfer successful practices between territories and strengthen cooperation.

A shared vision for resilient rural communities: The project contributes to a common European and Mediterranean approach to green participatory budgeting, culminating in resources such as the European Declaration and learning materials that can support further action beyond the project.

From participation to action: Ultimately, Green B-LEAF aims to make climate resilience more participatory, locally relevant and actionable—giving communities a stronger voice in decisions that affect their future and helping local authorities turn climate knowledge into concrete investment and action.

Green B-LEAF: empowering rural communities to understand, decide and act for a more climate-resilient future.

Based on the insights from previous tasks (Joint Methodology for climate data mapping and vulnerability assessment, Data collection and review of existing best practices and databases and Community workshops), Center for Climate Change, Promo Idea, Municipality of Strumica and Municipality of Faro coordinated the development of the final document: “Integrated Climate Data and Vulnerability Mapping Guide”. This deliverable consolidates the findings from data reviews, community workshops, and vulnerability assessments, providing synthesized guidelines for subsequent project phases. The Guide features climate and vulnerability maps that will form a joint database with the most common climate-related threats, including data from each community. A special section of the Guide will contain data of the best identified practices in the field of PB and GPB collected in the process of data collection and review of existing best practices.
This is a comprehensive guide combining data from climate mapping, best practice review, and community-driven vulnerability assessment. It will provide a synthesized overview of best practices, and outcomes from previous projects that can be adapted and applied within the Green B-LEAF project.