At the local level, whether city, town, village or hamlet, the protection and sustainable development of communities calls for stakeholders to assume greater responsibility for assessing the needs and obtaining solutions.  A community’s stakeholders must interact to advance the sustainable use of land, buildings and infrastructure.

BuildAction facilitates cooperation and collaborative efforts between individuals, government authorities, NGOs/CSOs, businesses, and science the responsible use and protection of land, the environment and nature for the built environment.  By sharing information and knowledge communities improve future practices and policies for their protection and sustainable development.  While improving the quality of public decision-making and policy, it also improves the accessibility and accountability of the mechanisms of participatory democracy.

BuildAction helps community stakeholders meet their civic duty to actively participate in community development and other community affairs.  The BuildAction platform enables communities to communicate, collaborate, and cooperate in their sustainable development and protection and to coordinate collective action.

The BuildAction stakeholder participation toolkit is a secure, comprehensive, open platform that connects different resources and tools of participation to advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations.  It is an innovative system that facilitates the transparent inclusion and participation of all interested stakeholders in the sustainable development of communities that complements existing or planned citizen participation initiatives.

SDG-targeted development calls for the sustainable and responsible use of utilization of human, natural and economic resources for the benefit of all socioeconomic stakeholders and collaboration between all sectors – government, business and civil society.  Sustainable development aims to transform unsustainable elements in developing the built environment to a socially, economically and ecologically sustainable global ecosystem.  The stakeholders deliver the solutions for such sustainable socioeconomic development.

The BuildAction toolkit improves the effectiveness and efficiency of participatory democracy for communities.  It publishes information to encourage the sustainability of communities, including Concerns, Repostings, Solutions, Tools, and News in local communities. 

The BuildAction platform was developed to comply with the “OECD Guidelines for Citizen Participation Processes”.  It is for the direct participation of civil-, private-, and public-sector stakeholders while enabling municipalities to fulfill their role and public duty to all stakeholders in the sustainable development and operation of the community, the use of resources, and the protection of the community now and for the future.