Building Inclusive Partnerships for Urban HEART Implementation

1. STEP 1

2. Objectives for Session Objectives -To stress that it is essential to build partnerships with various stakeholders as early as possible in the Urban HEART process -To understand that building an inclusive team will be one of the most important steps for the productive implementation of Urban HEART

3. Build an Inclusive Team • Build partnerships with diverse policy sectors, levels of government, and communities as early as possible • Will need data from a wide range of sectors and levels of government to analyse health inequities in your city • An inclusive approach helps build political commitment • Team building may be the most time-consuming step in the process, but may also be the most important step

4. An Urban HEART Team • A network of agencies and individuals informed and ready to participate in Urban HEART • Agreements to consider resource sharing/resource allocations • Endorsement of tool by one or more influential champions • Terms of reference • Momentum to proceed!

5. Who should be involved? • Social, economic and health policy stakeholders who have authority to share data • If new funding will be required for interventions, engage the finance departments early on • All relevant levels of government planning • Community leaders, elected officials, NGOs • People who have experience analysing large datasets

6. Stakeholder Analysis Activity

7. Brainstorming on Urban HEART team • Who should be on the proposed Urban HEART team for your city? • What are the steps to get the stakeholders involved? • What are the resources needed to begin building a team in your city?

8. Exercise on ranking stakeholders • Prioritize the stakeholders in terms of their comparative importance and ease of getting them onto the Urban HEART team Rank stakeholders in terms of: • how difficult is it to engage them to join the Urban HEART team (from 1 to 10, in ascending degree of difficulty) • the relative importance for their inclusion on the Urban HEART team (from 1 to 10, in ascending degree of importance) Complete the table in the following slide

10. More questions for thought • Are there any existing agencies that focus on health equities in cities? • Is Urban HEART recognized by any agencies or local authorities?

11. Activity: Building an inclusive team

12. Group assignment • In randomly assigned groups of 5-6 members, construct the longest structure possible according to the following instructions

13. Rules of the Game Build the longest connected structure with: • Paper • Rubber bands • Paper clips • Straws Other materials (not to be used to extend the length of the structure) • Scissors • Tape

14. Instructions • Time limit: 15 minutes • Teams may use other materials in their possession for construction other than those given to them at the start of the game • The final product must be able to be held up without breaking off