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Empowering communities through school food
Nutrition for our urban future. To provide evidence-based information on leveraging school food procurement to enhance local governance and strengthen food systems in Africa
Years active:
2024 - 2027
Related ICLEI Pathway(s)
Low emission development
Circular development
Resilient development
Equitable and people-centered development
Locations
Arusha, Tanzania | Mbale, Uganda | Kitwe, Zambia
Funded by
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
About
Project summary
School Food4Cities: Nutrition for our urban future is aims to improve local governance, livelihood opportunities, community resilience, and ecological sustainability in Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia through healthy, nutritious, and sustainable school food environments by conducting participatory action gender-responsive research that examines the roles and challenges of local governance and offers scalable lessons for national and regional policy actors.
School Food4Cities: Nutrition for our urban future is aims to improve local governance, livelihood opportunities, community resilience, and ecological sustainability in Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia through healthy, nutritious, and sustainable school food environments by conducting participatory action gender-responsive research that examines the roles and challenges of local governance and offers scalable lessons for national and regional policy actors.
Project aims
Specific objectives
- Analyze and articulate the role of local governments in designing, implementing, and scaling innovative, inclusive, gender-responsive and sustainable local school food programmes.
- Develop and roll out pilots in each of the three cities and provide robust empirical data to influence broader policy changes and inform roadmaps for replication at national and regional levels.
- Enhance awareness and capacity of local governments and other urban stakeholders within the project cities and across Africa to use evidence-informed procurement mechanisms towards catalyzing consistent, safe and nourishing food supply, and provide benefits that increase incomes, and strengthen the resilience of supply-chain actors, in their diversity.
Specific objectives
- Analyze and articulate the role of local governments in designing, implementing, and scaling innovative, inclusive, gender-responsive and sustainable local school food programmes.
- Develop and roll out pilots in each of the three cities and provide robust empirical data to influence broader policy changes and inform roadmaps for replication at national and regional levels.
- Enhance awareness and capacity of local governments and other urban stakeholders within the project cities and across Africa to use evidence-informed procurement mechanisms towards catalyzing consistent, safe and nourishing food supply, and provide benefits that increase incomes, and strengthen the resilience of supply-chain actors, in their diversity.
team manager
Main project contact
Dr Fru Wanka
Professional Officer: Urban Systems
