Consuming Urban Poverty Impact Enhancement Project

拟议的项目是城市消费扶贫项目的后续，该项目试图通过治理非洲二级城市的粮食系统来减轻贫困。虽然该项目能够证明对地方政府官员对城市粮食系统的态度产生了一定的影响，并参与了全球城市粮食政策和方案的制定，但项目小组认识到，为了减贫，要加强对解决城市粮食问题的承诺，就必须针对在制定地方政府政策和规划方面发挥关键作用的外部行为者。该项目确定了限制地方政府一级行动的三个关键问题，这些问题只能通过与外部行为体合作来解决。第一，规划者根深蒂固的思想阻碍了扶贫粮食规划。他们不知道如何采取不同的行动，而且正规的培训机会有限。该项目发现，强大的非正规经济倡导团体对粮食问题的参与有限。最后，它发现政策制定者对非正规性有强烈的偏见，这在可持续发展目标、新城市议程和联合国各机构文件中关于城市食品治理的全球论述中没有受到挑战。因此，通过民间社会的宣传和全球政策对话，采取三管齐下的战略来影响规划、政策方面的变化，该项目有三个一揽子工作，旨在解决已查明的关键问题。第一个工作包旨在提高当前和未来规划者将城市粮食系统纳入非洲规划的能力。这将通过针对规划人员和其他城市专业人员开发播客系列来实现。播客系列将得到一个网站的支持，该网站将提供相关材料的链接，并可能提供互动平台，以促进参与，以及为学术界提供教学指南，使他们能够在课堂环境中使用播客。这些信息将通过非洲城市中心、“在空无中前行”和“非洲城市化”社交媒体平台以及LinkedIn群组、非洲规划学校协会网络、非洲城市研究倡议网络和粮农组织的“城市粮食”网络进行传播。该项目还将具体针对那些已证明有潜力将城市粮食纳入规划和其他课程的学术部门，以及城市粮食方案项目伙伴机构，第二个工作包旨在通过编制和传播关于粮食在非正规部门的作用和可能的宣传要点的四份政策简报，将粮食问题列入非正规部门宣传议程。这些工作包将通过消费城市贫困项目与WIEGO和StreetNet的现有关系传播给全球非正规部门的倡导团体，第三个工作包力求通过与影响话语和政策方向的关键行为者进行战略接触来改变全球话语。这是在洛克菲勒基金会贝拉焦中心主办的CUP项目会议上采取的方法的改进。拟议的项目将在华盛顿、纽约、明尼阿波利斯、罗马、伦敦和加拿大滑铁卢举办会议，与会者是在CUP项目中确定的塑造全球城市粮食政策话语的关键人物。这些会议，连同有针对性地传播项目的调查结果和观点，将设法更多地考虑粮食系统的正式和非正式组成部分、城市和郊区粮食安全规划以及治理任务之间的关系，该项目还将把开普敦市作为项目材料和观点的试验场，建立在项目合作伙伴和城市之间现有的长期关系以及城市新的恢复力战略基础上，该战略致力于建立一个粮食系统计划。

The proposed project follows on from the Consuming Urban Poverty Project, which sought to alleviate poverty through the governance of food systems in secondary cities in Africa. While the project was able to demonstrate some impact on local government officials attitudes towards urban food systems, and engage in the shaping of global urban food policies and programmes, the project team realised that to increase commitment to addressing urban food issues in the interest of poverty alleviation it was essential to target external actors who play a pivotal role in shaping local government policy and planning. The project identified three key issues limiting action at the local government scale that can only be addressed by working with external actors. The first was that there was deeply entrenched thinking from planners which hindered pro-poor food planning. Planners no sense of how to act differently, and limited formal training opportunities. The project found limited engagement in food issues by powerful informal economy advocacy groups. Finally, it found a strong bias against informality amongst policy makers, which was unchallenged the global discourses on urban food governance as found in the SDGs, New Urban Agenda and documents from various UN Agencies. Therefore, a three-pronged strategy to affect change in planning, policy through civil society advocacy and global policy discourses.The project has three packages of work aimed to address the key problems identified. The first work package seeks to enhance current and future planners' capacity to incorporate urban food systems into planning in Africa. This will be achieved through the development of a podcast series targeting planners and other urban professionals. The podcast series will be supported by a website that will host links to relevant materials and potentially an interactive platform for engagement, as well as teaching guide for academics to enable them to use the podcasts within the classroom environment. These will be disseminated through the African Centre for Cities, Moving on Empty and Urban Africa social media platforms as well as through LinkedIn groups, through the Association of African Planning Schools network, through the African Urban Research Initiative network, and through the FAO's Food for Cities network. The project will also specifically target academic departments that have demonstrated potential to incorporate urban food into planning and other curricula, as well as the CUP project partner institutions.The second work package seeks to get food onto the informal sector advocacy agenda, through production and dissemination of four policy briefs on the role of food in the informal sector and possible points for advocacy. These will be disseminated to global informal sectors advocacy groups through the Consuming Urban Poverty Project's existing relationships with WIEGO and StreetNet.The third work package seeks to shift global discourse through strategic engagement with key actors shaping discourse and policy direction. This is a refinement of the approach taken in the CUP project in its meeting hosted at Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Centre. The proposed project will host meetings in Washington, New York, Minneapolis, Rome, London and Waterloo, Canada for the key individuals shaping global urban food policy discourse, as identified within the CUP project. These meetings, together with targeted dissemination of project findings and perspectives, will seek to incorporate greater consideration of the relationship between formal and informal components of the food system, urban and sub-urban scale planning for food security, and governance mandates.The project will also use the City of Cape Town as a testing ground for project materials and perspectives, building on existing long-term relationships between project partners and the City and the City's new Resilience Strategy which commits to establishing a food systems programme.