ANNUAL REPORT 2021
PARTNERSHIPS | COLLECTIVE IMPACT PROGRAM
Bringing years of ideation, co-creation, and development into fruition.
Evolved from the original concept of SGM Hubs, this program engages ‘host teams’ from cities around the world to shift from a dominant to an alternative way of collaborating and doing. United under a shared vision of food security and equity in local food systems, host teams embark on a shared learning journey of three years.
An inequitable food system is one in which people lack power and agency to change the conditions that affect them.
Participants in this program make a commitment to incorporating diversity, equity, shared leadership, and building trust; specifically to developing cross-sector impact initiatives that are guided by a spirit of 'doing with; not for' people who are experiencing food insecurity and socioeconomic inequity.
By working to make sure that people with lived experience are co-leading and co-producing solutions the program framework was designed to:
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Ensure that solutions proposed address true local needs
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Build the capacity and relationships that enable agency and decision making power.
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Develop systems that both meet urgent needs and serve as a living example to inspire wider change
Local Host Teams
Building on the coalition, Comida Para Todos, to form a national food collective that brings more representative voices and communities to the table to co-produce actions that increase food security and equity in the food system
Mobilizing the local food network to foster a participatory agroecological transition in response to the challenges of desertification, climate change, and depopulation.
Recognizing opportunities to reduce food waste, to promote nutrition education and farmer dignity, and to engage the youth to transform the local food system.
Born out of the Nepal Food Networks, bringing farmers and practitioners around the table for local, provincial, and national dialogues on more sustainable food systems
Focused on building more equity in the local food system and within the Minneapolis, St. Paul Metro Area.
Focusing on mobilizing a city-wide collective to increase food security and equity in the low-income neighborhoods “favelas” of Fortaleza.
424
Hours of Framework Development
42
Hours of strategic development & coordination meetings
06
Local Host Teams onboarded from six countries
29
Host team participants
21
Partner organizations represented
27
Hours of 1-1 peer-to-peer support calls
The CIP program framework was co-created with members of the community as well as experts in collective impact- John Kania, Paul Schmitz, and Peter Pula. It is inspired by practices from Asset Based Community Development and Peter Block’s Structure of Belonging/ Leader as Convener.