Conseil de développement du Pays Basque - Garapen Kontseilua

What Conseil de développement du Pays Basque - Garapen Kontseilua does

The Conseil de développement du Pays Basque - Garapen Kontseilua (CDPB) is a civic participation association (association loi 1901) founded in 1994 and headquartered in Bayonne, France. It operates as the official consultative body of the Pays Basque civil society, bringing together 419 members in 2024-2026 — comprising 131 individual citizens and 143 associations, socio-professional organizations, and institutions — to contribute to the strategic orientations of the territory. The CDPB works alongside the Communauté d'agglomération Pays Basque (CAPB), the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, and cross-border partners to animate collective reflection, produce prospective studies, and deliver multi-partner actions on issues such as language, housing, climate, equality, and democratic participation.

The organization's core programmatic offering is the Iparralde 2040 initiative, a 2024-2026 prospective co-construction exercise aimed at imagining a desirable future for the French Basque Country by 2040. Supporting this is a public-facing website platform (iparralde2040.org) built on YesWiki, which hosts thematic zoom pages, a resource library of 438+ documents, actor mapping tools, and action records. The CDPB also conducts cross-border research-action projects such as Mugalur, in partnership with Cederna-Garalur, the Universidad del País Vasco, and Eurorégion NAEN, as well as thematic programs on energy transition (Tranz'eKo with ADEME, 2018-2022).

The CDPB's business model is non-commercial: it is financed by institutional grants from CAPB and the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, supplemented by project co-funding from public agencies and European cross-border bodies. It employs 14 staff, does not charge fees for participation or membership, and generates no subscription or transaction revenue. Its primary "customers" are civil society actors (citizens, associations) who engage free of charge, and local institutions (CAPB, elected officials) who consume its consultative outputs to inform public policy.

Name

Conseil de développement du Pays Basque - Garapen Kontseilua

Legal name

Conseil de Développement du Pays Basque - Garapen Kontseilua

Website

https://societecivile-paysbasque.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Conseil de développement du Pays Basque is a Bayonne-based nonprofit association founded in 1994 that convenes 419 civil society members to provide consultative input on the strategic development of the French Basque Country, running the Iparralde 2040 prospective initiative funded by public institutional partners.

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akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Bayonne

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Institutional Support: The organization receives support from institutional partners including the Communauté d'agglomération Pays Basque (CAPB) and other local authorities. Funding is used to support the Iparralde 2040 initiative and participatory democracy activities.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

The CDPB operates as a participatory democracy instance that brings together 419 civil society members to contribute to the strategic orientations of the Pays Basque territory. Its main offering is the Iparralde 2040 prospective co-construction initiative (2024–2026), supported by a YesWiki-based civic engagement platform featuring a 438-resource thematic library, actor mapping tools, and action records. Access and participation are free of charge.

Product overview

The Conseil de développement du Pays Basque - Garapen Kontseilua (CDPB) is a participatory democracy organization (not a technology company) that operates the iparralde2040.org civic engagement platform. Its core product offering consists of the Iparralde 2040 initiative — a prospective co-construction initiative for imagining the territory's future — running alongside a YesWiki-based website platform hosting a resource library, action records, and actor mapping tools. There are no commercial SaaS products, modules, or add-ons; the organization does not develop or sell technology products.

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Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Iparralde 2040 Prospective co-construction initiative that brings together civil society actors through workshops, questionnaires, and collaborative discussions to imagine a desirable future vision for the Iparralde (French Basque) territory by 2040. Targeted at civil society members, associations, and partner institutions.
• CDPB Civic Participation Platform (iparralde2040.org) Participatory democracy platform built on YesWiki software, hosting thematic content, resource libraries, action records, actor mapping tools, and collaborative spaces for civil society engagement. Multilingual (French and Basque) and free to access for civil society members, citizens, and partner institutions.
• Bibliothèque de ressources (Resource Library) Curated digital library cataloging 438 resources across 14 thematic areas including agriculture, culture, economy, urban planning, energy, environment, health, media, language, and civic engagement, with filtering by topic, year, and publication type. Free public access.

Quantifiable outcome

• 419 members representing civil society diversity in 2024-2026
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered major, core and minor.

• ADEME Nouvelle-AquitainemajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Partnership with Agence de l'environnement et de la maîtrise de l'énergie for the Tranz'eKo experimentation on social innovation in Energy and Ecological Transition from 2018 to 2022.
• Communauté d'agglomération Pays Basque (CAPB)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMain institutional partner supporting the CDPB. The organization plays a consultative role with CAPB, providing proposals on key issues for the territory's future. CDPB was instrumental in the creation of the Agglomeration and continues to work on strategic orientations.
• Cederna-GaralurminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAssociation involved in the Mugalur research-action project on cross-border living spaces, co-funded by Eurorégion NAEN with Universidad del País Vasco.
• Universidad del País VascominorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partner in the Mugalur research-action project on cross-border living practices in the Basque Country.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Regional players

• Cederna-Garalur: Spanish-side counterpart association working on local development in Navarre and the Southern Basque Country, collaborating with CDPB on the Mugalur cross-border project. Comparable as a civil-society-led territorial development body on the other side of the Basque border.

Direct peers

• Conseil de développement de Grenoble-Alpes-Métropole: Direct peer: metropolitan consultative council with similar participatory governance remit, offering strategic advice to Grenoble-Alpes-Métropole on transitions, environment, and territorial cohesion.
• Conseil de développement de Toulouse Métropole: Direct peer: another French 'conseil de développement' attached to a major métropole, with a comparable mission of producing citizen-led proposals on territorial development, economic strategy, and public policy.
• Conseil de développement de Bordeaux Métropole: Direct peer: civic participation council consulting Bordeaux Métropole on territorial development strategy, structurally identical to CDPB as a French metropolitan 'conseil de développement' under the same legal framework (Code général des collectivités territoriales).
• Conseil de développement du Pays de Brest: Direct peer: Pays-level (rather than métropole) consultative body with a similar transversal and collaborative approach to territorial foresight, engaging civil society actors to advise local authorities on strategic orientations in Western Brittany.
• Conseil de développement de l'EuroMétropole de Strasbourg: Direct peer: another French eurometropolitan 'conseil de développement' with a comparable cross-border civic engagement dimension (Rhine Upper region), paralleling CDPB's transborder Basque collaboration.
• Conseil de développement de Nantes Saint-Nazaire: Direct peer: a participatory democracy council serving a French metropolitan area, playing a consultative role with local institutions (Pôle métropolitain Nantes Saint-Nazaire) on territorial strategic orientations, with a similar mandate to CDPB but in the Loire-Atlantique territory.

Broad incumbents

• CESER Nouvelle-Aquitaine: Regional economic, social and environmental council (CESER) that operates at a broader regional scale across Nouvelle-Aquitaine, providing consultative input on regional policy. Comparable as a participatory civil society advisory body but covering a much larger geographic and thematic scope than CDPB.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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