Project�s name Title

							Building
Healthy
Communities


                  Creating the
                BHC City Guide
              and shaping the final
                       LAP

               Marco Santangelo
               BHC Lead Expert
              Local Action Plans
              (in time of crisis)

LAPs  are partner cities’ main official output from the point
of view of the BHC project
         We can tick the box in the Application form

 BHC LAP structure (what, where, when, who, how) has
been designed to have a very easy way of communicating
among partners
                  So far, it has worked

 Need to pass from an expert point of view (all of us have
become experts in these months) in delivering the LAP to a
widely understandable document for a broader public
 How do we communicate what we have done and how can
                we make a better use of it
                BHC City Guides


Concrete outputs and results (p. 30 Application Form):
“The BHC City Guide, a guide that focuses on each city
specific situation while providing insights towards healthier
policies and higher quality of life”



Methodological framework for project implementation
(pp. 40-41 Appl. Form):
“To capitalise and reproduce the acquired knowledge,
furthermore, the thematic network intends to promote
dedicated ‘BHC City Guides’, in which each city will put its
practices, ideas, concepts, to create an internal tool to be
updated regularly […]”
                In practice?
A Guide on local policies, actions, strategies
regarding health and quality of life. What is going
on and what will/should change

A communication document          based    on   BHC
experience but moving forward

In the spirit of BHC, a Guide that talks to the local
arena and to the regional, national and European
ones

Up to the partner cities to decide on the target and
the diffusion (from internal working document to
agenda for the next years)
              Main contents
Local mapping:      updating   the LM produced   at the
beginning of BHC

BHC in the local context. The organisation:
    - LAP
    - ULSG
    - MA

Capitalisation process
     - Indicators toolkit
     - Being donors
     - Being beneficiaries

Political recommendations / Policy recomm.
                      Index

First part (local mapping)

Context

Health profile:
     description
     main issues
     data

Challenges

Analysis of ROPs and other relevant documents
                      Index
Second part (the work carried out in BHC: organisation
and capitalisation)

Focus on which theme and in which area, if relevant

Local Action Plan

ULSG (with MA when present) and other partnerships (e.g.
transnational ones) that proved to be relevant for the
implementation of the project (e.g. WHO)

Specific experiences and actions related to the use of the
indicators toolkit

Knowledge for which the city has acted as donor

Knowledge acquired as beneficiary during BHC
                       Index



Third part (recommendations)

Political recommendations if there is a wider consensus at
local level that have been translated into strategies, agendas,
principles

Policy recommendations if there is a weaker – or not sufficient
at the moment – consensus and the Guide is a working
document or a White Book for the local community
                   Template

A template will be provided with every detail: fonts,
length, etc. It will be used for a common editing and its
preparation needs to fit with the publishing options.



The Guide should be a short and clear document, in
English to be accessible to a wider audience: proposal of
max. 30 pages

Cases and practices in boxes

The Guide will have a local language version in which – as
annexes and in a CD or USB key – all useful documents
can be attached
             Use of the Guide
The BHC City Guide will be presented at the Final
Conference (April 2011)

It will be a printed Guide (online version provided on the
project minisite in www.urbact.eu)

English (international) version will be used for future
networking

Local languages versions        will be used for        local
dissemination   according      to    each partner        city
communication strategy

The online version, if used also on a local website (e.g. the
Municipality official website), could become a good
instrument for monitoring health and quality of life
conditions in your city
contact@urbact-project.eu
www.urbact.eu/project