IPC - RWANDA

RWANDA

RWANDA has been identified for the roll out of the IPC due to:

a strong humanitarian imperative; and

existing national capacity and institutional frameworks.

IPC activities are ongoing in Burundi, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, North Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.

In the region, the IPC process is coordinated by the IPC Steering Committee of the Food Security and Nutrition Working Group (FSNWG) for East and central Africa

The FSNWG is a spontaneous and field-driven coordination ‘working group’ established in Nairobi in 2005, attended by staff from a wide group of organizations engaged in food security (NGOs, UN agencies, international humanitarian institutions, etc).

The main goals of the FSNWG are to:

provide a forum for food security information exchange and analysis in the region; and

keep all humanitarian actors - especially donors and governments– up to date on food security crises in the region’s 12 countries.

> See also:Guidelines for the FSNWG

The FSNWG supports IPC development and field implementation in Central and Eastern Africa It aims at coordinating and achieving technical consensus amongst food security, nutrition and humanitarian practitioners.

Activities of the FSNWG IPC steering committee include:

leading the IPC roll-out in 2007 and 2008 in Burundi, DRC, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda and supporting start-up IPC activities in CAR, Djibouti, Eritrea, , Ethiopia etc;

organizing regional IPC Regional Outlook training events to strengthen regional analysis and ensure the consistency of the IPC approach in the sub-region;

producing, with seasonal frequency, a regional outlook map which shows IPC severity phases in the Central and Eastern Africa region; and

ensuring the region’s contribution to the IPC technical review process (such as participating in the IPC Online Forum and in the IPC technical manual update etc.).

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