M1
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 · Platform v1.2 — Three flagships live
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.
● Live at prototype.r4pc.org- Method
- 4Ps Quadruple Bottom Line
- Active flagships
- 3 cases · Punjab, BECCS, Hudson Valley
- Data corpus
- 6 problems · 10+ solutions · v1.2
- Stage
- Interactive 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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P1
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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P4
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."
M2
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.
M3
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.
M4
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.
M5
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 cases
Three active cases. One method applied end-to-end.
Each flagship is a complete R4PC application: documented problem → 4Ps evaluation → GIS-validated pathway → policy brief. The method, proved across geographies and sectors.
PUNJAB-001
Active · GIS validated
Crop Residue Burning, Punjab
Annual paddy stubble burning drives North India's worst recurring air-quality crisis. R4PC's proof-of-method case: from satellite fire density data to a suitability-mapped alternative-use pathway — MCDA weighted overlay across 14 districts.
People · Health + Livelihood
Planet · Emissions + Soil
Prosperity · Residue markets
Policy · MSP + incentive design
BECCS-002
In development
Bioenergy & Carbon Capture, Agricultural Scale
BECCS applied to agricultural biomass — examining the tension between carbon removal ambition, smallholder land rights, and energy transition feasibility. The 4Ps lens surfaces tradeoffs that single-axis climate accounting misses.
People · Land rights + access
Planet · Carbon removal
Prosperity · Energy economics
Policy · NDC commitments
HV-003
In development
Agricultural Transition, Hudson Valley NY
Rural land transition, watershed water quality, and economic resilience in the Hudson Valley — applying the 4Ps method in a US context with GIS-validated spatial analysis across county and state policy instruments.
People · Rural livelihoods
Planet · Water quality
Prosperity · Land transition
Policy · State + county tools
04 · Current status
Prototype live. Building the open platform next.
Where we are
- Interactive platform prototype live at prototype.r4pc.org — three flagships, dual 4Ps scoring (as-built + ceiling), 8-tier trust system.
- v1.2 data corpus: 6 documented problems, 10+ solution pathways, 3 anti-patterns, 5 methods, named query profiles.
- GIS methodology validated for Punjab: MCDA weighted overlay, ArcGIS Pro Suitability Modeler, UTM Zone 43N.
- Non-compensatory floor rule (People ≥ 2 AND Planet ≥ 2) enforced across all solution scoring.
What we're looking for
- Civic-tech and policy practitioners interested in piloting the 4Ps lens on their own cases.
- Domain partners in air quality, agriculture, water, public health, and climate policy.
- Researchers and GIS contributors for the open Methods Hub.
- Advisors and funders aligned with public-interest research translation.
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