Meeting food vulnerability needs during COVID-19: applying a systems approach to evidence based policy and practice

该项目将与英国各地的国家政府合作，包括Defra的食品脆弱性理事会，苏格兰和威尔士政府以及食品标准局，该项目将采用一种系统方法，以了解和监测在COVID-19爆发期间为弱势人群提供食品或为他们提供食品的一系列活动，包括财务和直接获取。反映Defra的粮食脆弱性重点，目标群体包括低收入者，受保护的个人和“非受保护的人”。该项目的目标是：-对粮食获取系统进行全面测绘，突出其中的关键脆弱领域，并确定与其他支持系统的联系。使用案例研究方法，制定和应用方法，在COVID-19爆发期间和通过放松封锁限制来监测和评估弱势群体的食品获取。制定“退出战略”，以管理危机后不会提供的系统的过渡。为未来的弹性规划建立“最佳实践”协议。项目方法包括协作系统映射，本地案例研究该项目将向政策制定者全面介绍为弱势群体开展的粮食获取活动，并查明这一系统内的主要差距和弱点，由使用这些系统的利益攸关方和为这些系统做出贡献的人提供信息。民间社会和工商界不仅直接为这项工作提供信息，而且还受益于其评价和监测组成部分，使它们能够在更广泛的背景下确定和改进其努力。

Working with national governments across the UK - including Defra's Food Vulnerability Directorate, the Scottish and Welsh governments and the Food Standards Agency, this project will apply a systems approach to enable understanding and monitoring of the array of activities to enhance or provide food access to vulnerable people during the COVID-19 outbreak, including both financial and direct access. Reflecting Defra's Food Vulnerability focus, target groups include people with low incomes, shielded individuals, and the 'non-shielded vulnerable'. The aims of this project are to:- Undertake comprehensive mapping of the food access systems, highlighting key areas of vulnerability within them and identifying links to other support systems.- Using a case study approach, develop and apply methods for monitoring and evaluating the food access for vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 outbreak and through the easement of lockdown restrictions.- Develop 'exit strategies' for managing the transition out of systems that will not be provided after the crisis.- Establish 'best practice' protocols for resiliency planning for the future.The project methods include collaborative systems mapping, local area case studies (collating qualitative and quantitative data) and in-depth interviews with system users and other key actors.The project will provide policymakers with a comprehensive overview of food access activities for vulnerable groups and identification of key gaps and weaknesses within this system, informed by stakeholders who use these systems and those contributing to them. Civil society and business communities benefit by directly informing this work, but also from its evaluative and monitoring components, enabling them to identify and refine their efforts in the wider context.