The document discusses strategies and initiatives being implemented by the West Midlands Combined Authority to promote inclusive growth in the region. It describes the WMCA's framework for inclusive growth, which focuses on 7 fundamentals like climate resilience, affordable housing, and equality. It also outlines how the WMCA is rewiring decision making, strategizing, and collaborating to achieve inclusive growth. Projects mentioned include developing social economy clusters, a social economy growth fund, and applying inclusive growth concepts in specific areas like East Birmingham and Dudley.

1. Putting Doughnut Economics into
practice in local government
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2. West Midlands Combined Authority
• Comprised of seven constituent and 12 non-
constituent authorities: together, a ‘functional
economic geography’.
• Led by an elected Mayor, Andy Street
(Conservative), since 2017. He is six months into his
second term of office.
• Portfolio holders comprised of leaders from the
seven metropolitan authorities, with an even split
between Conservative and Labour.
• Cross-party collaboration is necessary to get things
done: the Mayor requires a two-thirds majority to
pass a budget.

3. Describing inclusive growth
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A more deliberate and socially purposeful model
of economic growth – measured not only by how fast
or aggressive it is; but also by how well it is created
and shared across the whole population and
place, and by the social and environmental
outcomes it realises for our people.

4. Inclusive Growth Framework: what good looks like
Visualising the seven fundamentals as the Inclusive Growth Framework reflects a key principle of
inclusive growth: that we ultimately participate in economic activity in order to thrive, and that doing so
is a balance between social and environmental goals.

5. CLIMATE
RESILIENCE
AFFORDABLE
AND SAFE
PLACES
CONNECTED
COMMUNITIES
EDUCATION
AND
LEARNING
HEALTH AND
WELLBEING
EQUALITY INCLUSIVE
ECONOMY
POWER,
INFLUENCE
AND
PARTICIPATION
Reducing CO2
Designing out
homelessness
Accessible
resources and
opportunities
Increased
skills levels
Reduced
health
inequalities
Fewer people
living in
deprivation
Increased
household
income
Citizens
feeling
influential
COMPLIANCE: alignment with WMCA social value policy, little involvement of beneficiaries
OPPORTUNITY: exceedance of WMCA social value policy, involvement of beneficiaries
TRANSFORMATION: a catalyst for improved & sustained outcomes for people place, co-designed with partners & beneficiaries

6. Inclusive Growth Framework: under the hood

7. Inclusive Growth Framework: what good looks like
Visualising the seven fundamentals as the Inclusive Growth Framework reflects a key principle of
inclusive growth: that we ultimately participate in economic activity in order to thrive, and that doing so
is a balance between social and environmental goals.

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How we rewire decision-making

9. The Single Assurance Framework
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Inclusive growth check pre-initiation
Three 'must-haves': work as a route
out of poverty, reducing health
inequality, improving our position
against #WM2041
Use of inclusive growth decision-
making toolkit to unlock inclusive
growth that is specific to the
investment.
Inclusive growth business partners
bring expertise from different parts
of the system.

10. Key product: Art of the Possible report
This product is part of
phase one, 'Understanding
the problem and the
opportunity' - note the use
of compliance,
opportunity and
transformation within the
template.

11. How we strategise

12. Example strategy: #WM2041
#WM2041 was the first WMCA strategy to have inclusive
growth designed in.
It took a science-based regional carbon budget, and
contextualised it in the region's strengths and challenges.
By using the Inclusive Growth Framework and the
Sustainable Development Goals, five outcomes were
defined:
1. We will change our economy without leaving anyone
behind.
2. We will invest in the resilience of our places.
3. We will use our industrial past to create a new future.
4. We will create places and connections that help us to
meet the climate challenge.
5. We will decouple prosperity from consumption of
energy and resources.

13. WM2041 Five Year Plan: job creation
Sector Intervention Net jobs created by 2026 Net jobs created by 2041
Domestic
Energy Efficiency 5,500 18,800
Fuel Switching (Heat pumps) 6,900 23,500
Microgeneration 1,800 7,900
Commercial
Energy Efficiency 500 2,200
Fuel Switching (Heat pumps) 500 2,200
Microgeneration 100 600
Industry Energy Efficiency 10 200
Microgeneration 10 100
Transport
Fuel Switching (HGVs) 0 400
Fuel Switching (Buses, Taxis) 500 800
Demand Reduction (Trips) 40 120
Mode shift 1,500 1,500
Electric Vehicles 3,400 32,800
Land Use Renewables 40 600
Natural Capital 200 700
• A real need for
skills &
apprentices
• Potential for
21,000 jobs to be
created by 2026
• Potential for
another 71,000
jobs to be created
by 2041
• 140,000 jobs need
to reskill as
result of
transition (11.1%)
• 143,500 jobs are
aligned to net
zero transition
(11.5%)

14. How we collaborate

15. Stimulating ecosystem factors
for social economy growth
• Public policy drivers
• Business support
• Access to finance and investment
• Access to markets
• Commissioning and procurement
• Place-based development, localities and 'clusters'
• Social economy marketing and profile
• Partnerships
• Education, awareness and social entrepreneurship
• Social economy subsectors
Clusters
Investment
Fund
Sector
Capture
Scale Up

16. Growing the social economy
The ten ecosystem factors have been distilled into
four projects:
• Developing social economy clusters.
• Social economy development fund.
• Social economy growth and accelerator
programme.
• Using WMCA regional investment programmes
for social economy growth.
The work is being undertaken by a cross-
organisational virtual team, to ensure that the
commitment to collaboration is drawn through all
that we do.

17. Inclusive Growth Corridors
We are working to apply the
concepts of inclusive growth in
various places around the West
Midlands:
East Birmingham: building
collaborative governance to deliver
the East Birmingham Inclusive
Growth Strategy.
North Solihull: ensuring that the
Kingshurst redevelopment
proposals achieve SMBC's inclusive
growth aspirations.
Dudley: Boosting St. Thomas
Quarter as a social economy
cluster.
Sandwell: accruing different types
of value from the proposed
housing development in Friar Park.

18. Thank you, and looking forward to our
discussion!
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