Fifty shades of partnerships: a governance typology for public private engagement in the nutrition sector

Globalization and Health

Commentary

Rob Ralston¹  Kent Buse²  Dori Patay³  Jacqui Webster³  Alexandra Jones³  Aliyah Palu³ 

[1] Global Heath Policy Unit, Social Policy, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK;Healthier Societies Programme, George Institute for Global Health, Imperial College London, London, UK;The George Institute for Global Health Australia, Sydney, Australia;

关键词: Multistakeholder engagement;    Public-private partnerships;    Food industry;    Food policy;    Food governance;    Collaborative governance;    Commercial determinants of health;    Conflict of interest;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12992-023-00912-1

 received in 2022-12-21, accepted in 2023-02-14,  发布年份 2023

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundMultistakeholder collaboration has emerged as a dominant approach for engaging and mobilising non-state actors; notably embedded in the paradigm of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Yet, considerable ambiguity and contestation surrounds the appropriate terms of public private engagement (PPE) with industry actors.Main bodyThis paper seeks to conceptualise different forms of engagement with the food industry in tackling diet-related noncommunicable disease, within the context of power asymmetries across engaged stakeholders. It does so by introducing the Governance Typology for Public Private Engagement in the Nutrition Sector, a typology for government-led engagement with food industry actors across three domains: (i) the form of industry and civil society actor engagement (i.e., rules of exercising institutional power), based on the degree of participation in formal decision-making as well as participation at different stages in the policy cycle; (ii) the type of industry actors being engaged (i.e., pre-existing power attributes), based on function, size, and product portfolios for profit; and (iii) the substantive policy focus of engagement.ConclusionsThe Governance Typology for Public Private Engagement in the Nutrition Sector seeks to inform national level nutrition policy makers on good engagement practice with food industry actors and complements existing risk assessment tools. This typology has the potential to inform decision-making on public sector engagement with other industries that profit from products detrimental to human and planetary health.

【 授权许可】

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