From the World Health Organization

This action framework is intended to support governments aiming to develop, revise, implement, assess compliance with, and evaluate the effectiveness of, a healthy public food procurement and service policy. The focus is on promoting healthy diets, although other considerations like sustainable and local sourcing are considered.  

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From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The primary audience for this toolkit is those leading efforts to implement healthy food service guidelines within government agencies or institutions. It details a step-by-step approach to build a foundation, strategize and act, monitor and evaluate, and expand your initiative. It includes numerous tools and resources such as sample language for food service solicitations and contracts. 

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From the Friends of the Earth, Responsible Purchasing Network

This resource provides practical, step-by-step guidance for how municipalities can successfully develop and implement climate-friendly and health-promoting policies and practices for food purchased by public institutions and served on municipal property. The guide is primarily intended to help municipal staff and leaders who are in a position to influence food purchasing policies and practices. 

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From the Center for Good Food Purchasing

This Roadmap identifies three key pillars to ensure effective food system transformation at the scale we need to address our intersecting economic, health, social, and planetary crises. These pillars are drawn from communities involved in the national expansion of the GFPP and their experiences addressing the many challenges brought upon by the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring and fall of 2020. Policy and programmatic recommendations corresponding to each pillar aim to advance values-aligned food purchasing and simultaneously bolster local food system resiliency in light of lessons learned in the height of the pandemic.

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From the Food Chain Workers Alliance, HEAL Food Alliance

The report draws on lived experiences and testimonies of organizers and advocates on the ground to examine how public food procurement in its current form contributes to corporate exploitation, explore the origins of the GFPP, spotlight the key role of grassroots leaders, and draw from a decade of lessons learned to make key recommendations for the road ahead. The recommendations include policies for institutions and legislators to strengthen the impact of values-based food purchasing, with a particular emphasis on worker justice and racial equity.  

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