Closing the Feedback Loop: Participatory Action Research and Action Learning in Sustainable Development and Sustainability through the ESGETC Framework

          Sustainable development and sustainability (SDS) cannot be delivered to communities. It must be built with them. Yet many SDS initiatives still rely on top‑down planning, expert‑driven diagnostics, and externally designed interventions. These approaches often produce elegant strategies on paper, and disappointing results in practice. SDS increasingly requires approaches that are participatory, iterative, and grounded in lived experience. Tra