2022 Award "Best Practice in Citizen Participation"
16th Edition
The Zeybu project, allows the inhabitants of a district of the city of Eybens (10 000 inhabitants) to buy local quality products in short circuit within the framework of a Zeybu bi-mensue market. It is backed by a solidarity loop that allows members in difficulty to buy local products, thanks to a solidarity and citizen currency, generated from donations in kind proportional to the orders placed by the Zeybu (between 8 and 10%) and purchased by the members.
On the day of the Zeybu Market, members are encouraged to buy products from solidarity donations, in addition to their order. The money thus collected is allocated to the beneficiaries of food aid, in the form of credit for the purchase of Zeybu foodstuffs. But to operate this concept of solidarity loop relies on two essential partners to guarantee the sincerity of the concept: The Town Hall and the social grocery store “Pain d’épices”.
The Zeybu is linked with the City Council by an agreement to use a room and to generate the solidarity loop. The City Council makes it possible to legally identify people in difficulty, which allows them to benefit from monetary aid from the Zeybu.
It is the “gingerbread” social grocery store that is responsible for distributing the solidarity currency fairly by guaranteeing the anonymity of the beneficiaries. In fact, the solidarity currency is deposited in the Zeybu accounts of the assisted members, which can only be used to buy products from Zeybu producers.
By placing orders, the members helped reinject the solidarity currency into the economy of the producers and thus produce solidarity donations again, this is the solidarity loop!The Zeybu project allows the local scale to act together collectively, civic-mindedly for the preservation of the planet. It is also a virtuous project in terms of limiting waste and transport.
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