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Policy Library
A curated, peer-reviewed shelf of existing policies, pilots, and implementation records — tagged by sector, geography, and 4Ps outcome. The institutional memory civic actors rarely have time to build.
Independent civic-policy platform · Prototype v0.1
Public problems,
turned into evidence-grounded
policy pathways.
R4PC is an open development platform and civic matching network that converts documented public problems into GIS-validated, implementation-ready solution pathways — through a single, repeatable method: People · Planet · Prosperity · Policy.
- Method
- 4Ps Quadruple Bottom Line
- First proof case
- Punjab crop residue burning
- Stage
- Prototype · seeking partners
The data almost always exists. The translation doesn't.
Across climate, agriculture, water, and public health, well-documented evidence sits unused while the same problems repeat year after year. Researchers, frontline communities, civil-society practitioners, and policy makers operate in disconnected workflows — each holding part of the answer.
R4PC is the connective layer: a public-interest platform that ingests real cases, runs them through a transparent 4Ps evaluation, validates them spatially with GIS, and produces a pathway any practitioner or agency can pick up and act on.
01 · Method
The 4Ps. One evaluation lens for every case.
Every problem and every proposed pathway on R4PC is scored against the same four dimensions. No siloed wins. No single-axis tradeoffs hidden from view.
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People
Whose lives change, in measurable ways? Health, livelihood, dignity, access — centered on the communities closest to the problem.
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P2
Planet
Ecological integrity over time. Soil, water, air, biodiversity, and climate signal — assessed spatially, not in the abstract.
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P3
Prosperity
Durable economic outcomes for households, cooperatives, and local economies. Subsidy logic, market access, and capital paths included.
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Policy
What an agency, legislator, or implementer can actually adopt — instruments, jurisdiction, sequencing, and political feasibility.
02 · Platform
Five modules. One pipeline from problem to pathway.
R4PC is built as an open development platform. Each module is a public good in its own right; together, they move a case from "documented problem" to "implementation-ready pathway."
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GIS Lab
Spatial validation for every proposed pathway. Layers from public datasets (land use, hydrology, emissions, demographics) test whether a solution is feasible in the place it claims to fix.
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Methods Hub
Open documentation of the 4Ps method itself — protocols, scoring rubrics, and case templates. So any researcher or agency can run the method, audit our work, or extend it.
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Submission Workspace
A structured intake for practitioners, communities, and researchers to submit a documented problem or a candidate solution. Every submission enters the same review pipeline.
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AI Navigator
A guided assistant that helps users find relevant cases, frame their own problem in 4Ps terms, and surface comparable pathways from the Library. Augments the workflow — never replaces evaluation.
03 · Flagship case
Punjab crop residue burning — the proof of method.
Every autumn, an estimated tens of millions of tonnes of paddy stubble are burned across Punjab and neighbouring states, driving an annual air-quality crisis across North India. The problem is documented, monitored, and politically salient — and yet the solution space stays fragmented.
R4PC's flagship case takes Punjab crop residue burning end-to-end through the platform: documented problem → 4Ps evaluation → GIS-validated solution pathway → policy-ready brief. It is the working demonstration of what the method looks like when run all the way through.
- People — farmer livelihoods, respiratory health, regional air quality.
- Planet — soil organic carbon, residue-as-resource, emissions reduction.
- Prosperity — equipment access, residue markets, cooperative models.
- Policy — incentive design, MSP linkage, state-centre coordination.
04 · Current status
Prototype live. Building the open platform next.
Where we are
- Standalone interactive prototype of the Punjab flagship case.
- 4Ps method documented in the platform blueprint (v2).
- Module specs drafted: Library, GIS Lab, Methods Hub, Submissions, AI Navigator.
What we're looking for
- Civic-tech and policy practitioners interested in piloting the 4Ps lens.
- Domain partners (air quality, agriculture, water, public health).
- Researchers and GIS contributors for the open Methods Hub.
05 · Contact
Work with R4PC.
R4PC is an independent platform. If your work touches public-interest policy — at a community organisation, an agency, a research group, or a funder — we'd like to hear from you.
hello@r4pc.org