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Council Capacity Building, City of Wyndham (2022-2023) 

BySustain Team

This project was about empowering Council staff to see how their disparate departments and work connect to their local food system.

We facilitated a cross-departmental food systems community of practice that focused on food system literacy and breaking-down policy siloes. This team then collaborated with community leaders on a series of participatory workshops, crafting a shared vision and priority actions for food systems in the city.

The City of Wyndham has since established a permanent, cross-departmental food systems working group. Sustain continued this work in 2024-25 – facilitating a Wyndham Food Collective. 

“The breadth and depth of this work across Council cannot be understated, with many different areas having particular but connected focus. This project and the reports provided by Sustain have helped us identify this diversity of work and explore ways of bringing it all together. It’s also unpacked the complexity of the food system and we’ve been able to draw on evidence-based work to help inform and shape our own work.” 

Janelle Phillips, Area Leader Community Development & Programs, Community Strengthening & Inclusion, City of Wyndham. 

Learn more about our capacity building services here.

Sustain Team

Sustain is a “think and do” network, specialising in designing and building sustainable and healthy food systems. We work with governments, councils, and community leaders to help map local food systems, and develop evidence-based and achievable policies and programs. We sow the seeds of change with events, policy work, practice & thought leadership, capacity building, and collective action. We give people, councils, and organisations the tools they need to help them become empowered food citizens, supporting healthy communities, people and ecosystems.

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