Using local government drivers to reduce alcohol related harms

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Using local government drivers to reduce alcohol
related harms

• Cities for Safe and Healthy Communities
• ICLEI Oceania
• mark.boyd_at_iclei.org

www.iclei.org/oceania/cshc
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Cities for Safe and Healthy Communities

• Established by National Local Government Drug and
  Alcohol Advisory Committee and Council of Capital
  City Lord Mayors
• Run by ICLEI Oceania, a capacity-building
  organisation working with local governments
• Healthy Cities model
• Working with over 20 local governments across
  Australia on systematic approaches to reducing
  alcohol related harms

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Participating cities

• Brisbane
• Sunshine Coast
• Gold Coast

• Stirling

• Sydney
• Wagga Wagga
• Holroyd
• Albury

• Dandenong
• Geelong
• Maribyrnong
• Yarra
• Manningham
• Frankston
• Echuca

• Salisbury

• Melbourne
• Port Phillip
• Brimbank
• Moonee Valley
• Whitehorse
• Casey

• Hobart

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Program Building Blocks
www.iclei.org/oceania/cshc
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Roles and responsibilities
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Mechanisms for action
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The ICLEI model
1 Where are we now? Data inventory
5 How do we know we succeeded? Monitor
and review
Cities for Safe and Healthy Communities
2 Where do we want to get to? Setting
goals
4 How do we keep doing it? Implementation

3 How do we do it? Planning effective and
equitable actions for the local context
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Datasets and indicators
Monitoring action
Indicator Impact
monitor
What local government can influence
Enablers data Direct and Indirect influences
plan
About the community
Descriptive data Population, health, environment
report
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Equity lens
Examples
equity of opportunity
equity of access

• Consultation with Indigenous leaders
• Overlaying SEIFA on outlet density
• Measuring differential impacts by
  sub-populations
• Assessing evidence base of efficacy for reducing
  inequities

equity of impacts and outcomes
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Contemporary models of urbanism
- Jeb Brugman, presentation at ICLEI World
Congress
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A call to this generation
- Endless City, Phaidon Press
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How can local governments engage communities to
support and adopt change?
www.iclei.org/oceania/cshc
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5 Mechanisms for action
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Community dialogue on alcohol policy
Throwing up our hands at men throwing
fists July 17, 2009 Dewi Cooke The Age
Living in a drunken state Royce Millar April
25, 2009 The Age
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1. Land use and urban planning

• Indicators on business mix and economic vitality
• Incorporate discussion on alcohol in urban
  planning consultation processes
• Echuca Safe Path public-private partnership
• Nighttime tours Chief Constable John Giffard at
  Thinking Drinking 1 This is not the city we
  planned for
• City of Melbourne
• use of video stories to engage on land use
  planning

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San Francisco Community action model
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Youth advocacy on business mix

• Found 26 of shelf space for alcohol and tobacco
• Led to new partnerships (Good Neighbour Program)
  with business to morph convenience stores back to
  community resources
• Advocates diagrammed 11 stores for stocking
  practices did a map of the neighborhood,
  surveyed residents as to shopping practices,
  interviewed merchants The 3 most common products
  in the stores were alcohol, tobacco and packaged
  (junk) foods, many were tobacco subsidiary
  company brands. Some estimates were that only
  2-5 of store space was dedicated to produce
  47 of neighbors surveyed said that stores were
  hard to get to (barrier to getting healthy food).
  That residents must change buses 3 times to get
  to the nearest supermarket (outside the
  neighborhood) San Francisco Department of
  Public Health

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Data GIS mapping on land use
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Land use and inequities
www.iclei.org/oceania/cshc
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2. Licensing and regulation

• Lack of democracy in parliamentary processes to
  demonstrate decision-makers are listening to
  their communities
• Use complaints data (community data) to assess
  venue performance
• Local governments represent their communities in
  assessing and approving licences

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3. Facilitation, advocacy leadership

• Community representation on coordination
  committees
• City of Darebin advocacy on access to services
  changed funding structures for municipalities

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4. Community service, community development and
civic engagement

• Community surveying in Port Phillip
  equity-based consultation that also asked
  patrons, rooming houses, local residents
• From www.iclei.org/oceania/cshc
• What's New gt 09 National LG Awards

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5. Workforce development

• The workforce is the community
• Local government often the largest employer in
  the area
• FebFast challenge
• Providing a safe and healthy workplace systems
  approaches to workplaces stress

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Thank you

• mark.boyd_at_iclei.org

www.iclei.org/oceania/cshc