Building Healthy Cities Project, JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc, Arlington, VA, USA.
Building Healthy Cities Project, Engaging Inquiry LLC, Durham, NC, USA.
J Urban Health. 2022 Aug;99(4):738-748. doi: 10.1007/s11524-022-00654-2. Epub 2022 Jul 7.
Rapidly growing cities face new and compounding health challenges, leading governments and donors to seek innovative ways to support healthier, more resilient urban growth. One such approach is the systems mapping process developed by Engaging Inquiry (EI) for the USAID-funded Building Healthy Cities project (BHC) in four cities in Asia. This paper provides details on the theory and methods of the process. While systems mapping is not new, the approach detailed in this paper has been uniquely adapted to the purpose of municipal planning. Strategic stakeholder engagement, including participatory workshops with a diverse group of stakeholders, is at the core of this approach and led to deeper insights, greater buy-in, and shared understanding of the city's unique opportunities and challenges. This innovative mapping process is a powerful tool for defining municipal priorities within growing cities across the globe, where the situation is rapidly evolving. It can be used to provide evidence-based information on where to invest to gain the biggest impact on specific goals. This paper is part of a collection in this issue providing a detailed accounting of BHC's systems mapping approach across four project cities.
快速发展的城市面临着新的和复杂的健康挑战，促使政府和捐助者寻求创新的方法来支持更健康、更有弹性的城市增长。系统映射方法就是其中之一，它是由 Engaging Inquiry（EI）为美国国际开发署资助的“建设健康城市”项目（BHC）在亚洲四个城市开发的。本文详细介绍了该过程的理论和方法。虽然系统映射并不是什么新鲜事物，但本文详细介绍的方法是专门为市政规划目的而设计的。战略利益相关者的参与，包括与不同利益相关者的参与式研讨会，是该方法的核心，这导致了更深入的见解、更多的认同和对城市独特机遇和挑战的共同理解。这种创新的映射过程是在全球快速发展的城市中确定市政优先事项的有力工具。它可以用于提供基于证据的信息，说明在哪里投资可以对特定目标产生最大影响。本文是本期刊物中一系列文章的一部分，详细介绍了 BHC 在四个项目城市中的系统映射方法。
