Living Systems Beyond Growth - KPIs - municipal performance measurement.

This two-day policy and planning conference, "Living Systems - Beyond Growth: Building Future-Forward KPIs through Municipal Performance Measurement." May 20-22, 2026, held in North Saanich.

The district of North Saanich in it Official Community Plan (OCP), 2025 adopted the Doughnut Economic framework (DEfw). The aim of this conference is to develop Key performance indicators KPIs through Municipal Performance Measurement.  The emphasis is not on theory or advocacy, but on embedding DEfw-aligned thinking into everyday municipal decision-making and reporting structures

Agenda:
Each section beings with short expert briefings, followed by facilitated hands-on workshops and collaborative multisectoral working groups.
Output-oriented sessions focused on usable deliverables, including
draft KPI Framework, data catalogues, monitoring and reporting approaches. 
Finally a pilot implementation concepts. 

Who Can Join:
This conference is intended for planners, government policy staff, academics, and applied practitioners involved in community planning, service delivery, and performance measurement. [Members of Planning institute of British Columbia are Eligible for PIBC CPL units].
Location:
8805 East Saanich Road, District of North Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. 
Registration (is by invitation/application)
To request participation email: LivingSystem2026@protonmail.com
Include:
Full name 
Email
Organization / affiliation 
Role/title 
Short statement of interest

Registration fee: None

Who Can Join?

This conference is designed for:

• Professional planners and urban designers
• Municipal and regional government staff
• Policy analysts and performance measurement specialists
• Academics and applied researchers
• Sustainability and systems-thinking practitioners

It is particularly relevant for those working on:

• Official Community Plans (OCPs)
• Municipal performance frameworks
• Data-driven decision-making
• Integrated social, economic, and environmental policy

This is a technical, implementation-focused event, not a general public forum.
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Living Systems Beyond Growth aims to build local government capacity to design and implement practical and innovative tools of community planning using the Doughnut Economics framework. The combination of panels and workshops will bring together practitioners and academics to share and develop their expertise in designing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), data catalogues, and monitoring approaches aligned with Official Community Plans. 

Drawing on applied expertise from the Doughnut Economics Action Lab and several municipalities, the conference emphasizes hands-on learning focused on three themes: 

                i.                    Sustainable Food Systems

              ii.                    Age-Friendly Wellbeing, and 

            iii.                    Circular Economy practices. 

This conference directly supports the District of North Saanich’s Official Community Plan (OCP), which embeds Doughnut Economics at its core, and the implementation plans that align with the OCP objectives. By translating policy into actionable and measurable tools, the conference aims to promote evidence-based decision-making, strengthen municipal reporting, and accelerate cross-sector collaboration within the framework of existing council-adopted policy. 

Intended impact:

·        Equip planners and decision-makers with concrete measurement tools of policy governance to reduce ambiguity and support transparent evidence-based decisions.

·        Build cross-sectoral capacity and networks across BC (and Vancouver Island communities) to accelerate scalable pilots and shared measurement approaches.

·        Ensure municipal planning advances in resilience, social wellbeing, and long-term ecological stewardship in ways that are actionable within existing policy cycles.

Target Audience

• Municipal and regional planners PIBC members
• Local government policy staff members
• Public health professionals and staff
• Academics, practitioners, experts, and graduate students.