http://www.fao.org/in-action/food-for-cities-programme/en/ This slide was presented by Stefania Amato, policy researcher and adviser at the municipality of Milan, on the occasion of the expert consultation on an indicator framework to assess city region food systems and monitor the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact, held in FAO HQ, on 13-14 April 2016. It gives an overview of the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact and present the proposal on how to monitor its implementation in the signing cities.

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The Milan
Urban Food
Policy Pact

2. The path towards the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact
Invitation letters to
the mayors (C40
and Twin cities)
AUGUST 2014
3 sessions of
webinar s
30 SEPT – 30 JAN
Meeting in London
17-19 FEBRUARY
Writing of the
Pact and of the
Framework of
Actions
1 MARCH–
31 MAY
Writing of
the Good
Practices
«manual»
1 JUNE –
15 SEPT
Signing of the
Milan Urban
Food Policy
Pact
15
OCTOBER
Delivery of the
Pact to Ban Ki
Moon
16
OCTOBER

3. The119 cities

4. The Signing Cerimony
15 Ottobre, Sala delle Cariatidi -Milano

5. The Advisory Group
Bioversity International
C40 – Cities Climate Leadership
Group
Global Alliance for the Future of Food
Prince of Wales Charitable
Foundation
Scientific Committee for Expo 2015
of the City of Milan
Slow Food
Milan Center for Food Law and Policy
Eurocities
European Commission
Committee of the Regions (EU)
Special Representative of the UN SG for
Food Security and Nutrition
FAO – Food for Cities
UNDP ART
UNHABITAT
WHO – Healthy Cities
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ministry of Agriculture
Italian Parliament – Development
Cooperation focus group

6. The numbers of the
Milan Urban Food Policy Pact
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45Cities that wrote the Pact
119Cities that signed the Pact
400.000.000Citizens involved
*as of 25°march 2016

7. “[In the fight against hunger] we need all partners:
fashion experts, diplomats, business leaders,
rock stars and global world leaders, and cities’
mayors, governors and most of all we need local
communities. Presidents, prime ministers and
ministers they make good policies of the
government but it is mainly community leaders,
mayors and governors who work and implement.
They are the real ones who are working on the
ground and I highly applaud at their strong
commitment”. Ban Ki Moon 16th Oct 2015 -Milan

8. The mecanism of the UFPP
Preambol
Commitments
Among which: We will use th
e Framework for Action as a st
arting point city to address
the development of their own
urban food system
Framework of Actions
37 inputs
Good Practices
The Pact

9. The 6 priority areas
Governance: Enhance stakeholder participation at the city level through political
dialogue, and if appropriate, appointment of a food policy advisor and/or
development of a multi-stakeholder platform or food council, as well as through
education and awareness raising.
Sustainable diets and nutrition: Explore regulatory and voluntary instruments
to promote sustainable diets and address non-communicable diseases
associated with poor diets and obesity involving private and public companies
as appropriate, using marketing, health promotion and communication
programmes, the development of sustainable dietary guidelines, labelling
policies (eg. Meatless Monday); and economic incentives or disincentives.

10. Food security: Build forms of social protection systems (food banks,
community food kitchens, emergency food pantries etc.) or support grassroots
activities dedicated to provide vulnerable populations with access to healthy and
sustainable food eg. reorient school meal programmes and other institutional
food service to provide food that is healthy, local, seasonal and sustainably
produced.
Food production: Promote and strengthen urban food production and
processing based on sustainable methods as a way to mitigate heat island
effect; reduce energy needed to provide building cooling and heating; (indirectly)
raise awareness against food waste; promote and strengthen peri-urban food
production in order to support short food chains thus decrease food miles.
The 6 priority areas

11. • Food supply: Develop sustainable food transportation and logistics planning
in order to reduce carbon emissions by improving alternative fuels or means
of transport; strengthen or develop energy efficient municipal public markets
including farmers markets, informal markets, retail and wholesale markets.
• Food waste: Raise awareness of food loss and waste through targeted
events and campaigns; save food by facilitating recovery and redistribution
for human consumption of safe and nutritious foods; implement city-wide
composting plans.
The 6 priority areas

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MUFPP - The way forward

13. After the signing
Cities approved a follow up scheme to:
1. continue working on the issues of the Pact but with the
support of cities' networks
2. create a MUFPP Award to the best food policy project
implemented by MUFPP signatory cities
Addings: FAO support to host the 2016 event and build an
MF of the MUFPP

15. The Monitoring Framework building process
3 core ideas 1/2:
1) Create a monitoring framework which intersects the formal PA monitoring
mechanism -thus avoiding parallel structures (eg. survey teams) to work on a
separate track (eg. build an ad hoc data collection process).
– On the contrary, this process might turn into a “capacity building”
activity where cities’ food focal points might learn by doing:
• how to build a set of indicators (together with the team of experts
from FAO);
• how to embed the indicators identified into the regular City Halls
performance matrixes (each focal point together with his/her city
Management Control System team) and create added value for the
internal city monitoring process
OECD (2005): Public Sector Modernisation: Governing for Performance, OECD, Paris, http://www.oecd.org/site/govgfg/39044817.pdf accessed
Feb. 02, 2016

16. 3 core ideas 2/2:
2) The sustainability of the data collection mechanism and the data collection
processes which –if the MUFPP indicators will then be embedded- might turn
into a formal yearly-based routine
3) the measurability of the efforts put in place and the results achieved that
might inform decision making process thus eventually trigger new political
investments on food projects/programmes.
The Monitoring Framework building process

17. • Outcomes: To monitor the progresses made by cities in the
implementation of the MUFPP; Cities commit to measurable
targets connected to the MUFPP
• Output: MUFPP - Monitoring framework (MF); MUFPP targets
• Timeframe: March 2016 – October 2017
The Monitoring Framework building process
Start of work New committment:
quantitative target
Call for pilot citiesQuestionnaire
to cities
MARCH 2016 MAY 2016 13 OCTOBER 2016 NOVEMBER 2016 OCTOBER 2017
Workshop: selection
of indicators

18. Step1: Assessment
• Assessment of existing set of indicators linked to food systems (on-going with
FAO)
• Assessment of existing monitoring mechanism in place in cities (via
QUESTIONNAIRE)
Step2: Selection of preliminary set of indicators
• Feasibility study (what’s in place in cities – what cities’d like to measure)
• Compilation of a list of MUFPP potential indicators – connected to the MUFPP
and its Framework of actions
• MUFPP cities agree on a set of MUFPP indicators (WORKSHOP 13 OCT)
The Monitoring Framework building process

19. Step3: Piloting
• Call for pilot cities
Step4: Data collection and analysis
Step 5: Pilot cities embed the set of indicators
Step 6: Definition of MUFPP targets
 New signing event (October 2017)
The Monitoring Framework building process

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Thank you!!
stefania.amato@comune.milano.it
http://www.foodpolicymilano.org/en/

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