Setting up a Green Deal on Sustainable Supply Chains in Flanders
The challenge

Setting up a Green Deal on sustainable supply chains in Flanders

Impact Area: Public & Social

Supply chains in Flanders are largely linear, fragmented, and vulnerable, with limited collaboration across sectors. Many companies want to transition to sustainable and circular practices but face barriers such as lack of data, unclear incentives, regulatory complexity, and difficulty in scaling pilots into systemic change. The Green Deal by the Flemish Government (Vlaamse Overheid) seeks to address these challenges by bringing diverse actors together, identifying shared needs, and creating a framework that accelerates sustainable supply chain practices across the region.

In this live ongoing project, our role is to act as a strategic facilitator and connector between government, businesses, and institutions by mapping the landscape, engaging stakeholders, synthesizing insights, and co-designing a shared Green Deal framework that turns ambition into concrete commitments and inspiring use cases. Along the way, we continue to align diverse perspectives and balance ambition with feasibility in order to turn a shared vision into concrete action.

About Vlaamse Overheid

Building a sustainable, future proof future for Flanders

Vlaamse Overheid is the regional government of Flanders, responsible for shaping policies on economy, environment, education, mobility, and welfare. It is also the public authority commissioning and facilitating the Green Deal on sustainable supply chains.

Our approach

Mapping, engaging and aligning stakeholders across a common framework

  • Understand the landscape

    We mapped existing practices, policies, and challenges across Flemish supply chains and beyond. We identified barriers (e.g. data gaps, incentives, regulation, scaling issues) and opportunities that are currently left unexplored.

  • Engage and interview stakeholders

    We involved SMEs and bigger corporates, institutions, and NGOs / nonprofits. We facilitated dialogue through one-on-one interviews to align on needs and opportunities.

  • Collect insights & evidence

    We ran a targeted survey across different types of organizations to gather crucial data on collaboration interest, current understanding of supply chains, barriers, and support needs.

  • Stakeholder alignement

    Through interactive workshops, we bring diverse perspectives and insights from businesses, institutions, and public authorities to the table. This step is crucial to build a shared understanding of challenges and opportunities, identify common priorities, and create the foundation for collective action within the Green Deal framework.

  • Define priorities & focus areas

    We’re defining the value proposition for the Green Deal and for implementing sustainable supply chains,

  • In process: Develop the Green Deal Framework

    We are now in the process of drafting and co-creating commitments, guidelines, and pathways for stakeholders to take within the Green Deal.

Our solution

Go-to partner in shaping the framework and setting the scope

We provided a structured, multi-stakeholder framework that enables businesses, institutions, and public authorities in Flanders to collaborate on building sustainable and circular supply chains.

Through research, stakeholder engagement, and co-creation, we identified key challenges, aligned priorities, and translated them into concrete commitments. The Green Deal is here to accelerate systemic change, align with EU ambitions, and strengthen Flanders’ position as a leader in sustainable value chains.

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