A Toolkit for Cities: Building a Multi-Actor Local Prevention Framework

Last updated:

28/10/2025

Publication Date:

27/10/2025

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Chapter 7: Implementation: From Local Leadership Group to City Prevention Team

To ensure that their LPF is impactful, cities must ensure effective implementation. This means putting the plan into action, coordinating partners, delivering programmes and services and monitoring progress towards shared goals.

Strong Cities guidance recommends that cities transition from the LLG to a City Prevention Team as they move from strategy development to implementation. While the LLG is typically a time-limited working group focused on designing the strategy, the City Prevention Team is the ongoing group or structure responsible for putting the strategy into practice.

The City Prevention Team should include many of the same stakeholders as the LLG, with the potential addition of new partners needed for delivery. It should remain local government-led but include a wide range of local actors, such as community-based organisations, faith leaders, social service providers, educators, mental health professionals and law enforcement representatives. This collaborative approach ensures that responsibilities are clearly defined and that the work is informed by diverse local knowledge and expertise.

Implementation is not a one-off event but an ongoing process. Cities should expect the City Prevention Team to meet at least quarterly to:

Coordinate activities and ensure they align with the strategy
Share information about emerging needs, risks and successes
Monitor progress on agreed outputs and outcomes
Identify and address any challenges or barriers
Plan for sustainability and future resource needs

Strong Cities pilot experience suggests that effective implementation includes phases such as:

Preparation: Building partner capacity, delivering initial training, establishing referral mechanisms and raising awareness of the new approach.
Active Delivery: Running prevention programmes, community engagement initiatives, awareness campaigns and intervention services as described in the LPF.
Monitoring and Evaluation: Tracking key indicators, collecting feedback from partners and community members, and adjusting the approach as needed.
Sustainment Planning: Identifying funding opportunities, integrating prevention activities into existing city services and ensuring the effort can continue beyond initial grant periods.

Strong Cities and other partners may continue to support cities during implementation, for example, through technical assistance, peer learning opportunities and connections to subject matter experts. However, the goal is to build local ownership of the strategy, so that it can be sustained and adapted over time based on changing community needs.

A well-supported City Prevention Team helps ensure that the LPF is not just a written document but a living strategy that strengthens community safety, builds trust, and reduces the risk of hate, extremism and targeted violence.