About – Development Policy Foundation

The Fundacja Polityki Rozwojowej (Development Policy Foundation) is a Polish NGO that translates development strategies into super practical, locally grounded solutions.

It acts as a project incubator and facilitator, bridging the gap between high-level policies and on-the-ground implementation.

Its work is organised into six interconnected areas:

Smart cities and sustainable, green infrastructure — supporting innovative urban solutions, energy efficiency, digital tools, and infrastructure adapted to local needs.
Nature-based solutions (NBS) and green infrastructure — promoting natural systems to address environmental challenges. This includes green roofs, urban trees, rain gardens, permeable surfaces, wetlands, and blue-green corridors. The Foundation treats these not as isolated landscaping but as integral components of spatial planning and climate adaptation.
Water management – supporting integrated approaches to water resource protection, watershed planning, flood-risk reduction, and pollution prevention.
Marine planning, sustainable /aquaculture and blue economy advancing innovative models for marine and aquatic resource management. This includes pioneering “low-trophic” aquaculture (such as seaweed and mussel farming) integrated with offshore wind farms to promote circular economic models in marine spaces.
Rural/ non-metropolitian green entrepreneurship – fostering local enterprise, rural development, and cross-border cooperation in diverse regulatory and economic environments.
Knowledge transfer and social resilience – sharing expertise to strengthen local capacities and empower communities to address social, informational/resilence to disinformation/, and environmental challenges.

The Foundation operates as a versatile facilitator, working with local governments, architectural studios, businesses, research institutions, and international organisations.

Whether designing a smart city framework or scaling a low-trophic aquaculture initiative, its approach focuses on:

Practical Scalability: Developing models that are replicable and adaptable to different geographic, regulatory, and socioeconomic contexts.
Integrated Solutions: Ensuring that projects- such as those between offshore wind and aquaculture – create co-benefits that serve environmental, social, and economic goals simultaneously.
Building coalitions that bring together diverse actors to solve complex, cross-sectoral problems.