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Reformulation of the IPC Global Technical Advisory Group (TAG)

DATE
Jun 2013
REGION - COUNTRY
Global

The IPC is gaining momentum and is now increasingly recognized as a global standard in the food security field.  One of the key roles of the IPC Global Partnership is to initiate and oversee IPC technical development activities with the goal to ensure and strengthen the relevancy and rigor of the IPC in the global context as its use and application grows throughout the world. The IPC Global Steering Committee has successfully been guiding IPC technical developments and in 2010 formulated a IPC Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to support specific IPC technical development initiatives, like the Version 2.0 of the IPC Manual and more recently the IPC Chronic Food Insecurity Scale.  The  use of the IPC has expanded to new regions and countries and the demand for technical developments of the IPC and applied research has increased considerably.

To keep pace with the growing demand for the IPC, numerous other technical development activities have been required, including the development of training materials, e-learning courses, guidance notes. There is also a demand for applied IPC research studies that focus on the normative refinement of IPC, such as testing of the IPC Food Consumption Indicators, as well as a study on the impact of the IPC on Decision Making in the Global, Regional and Country Context. There is also a need for the TAG to technically review and provide recommendations to the IPC Global Steering Committee in the area of endorsement of IPC Product and IPC Compatibility compliance.

To meet these growing demands, the IPC Global Steering Committee decided to reformulate the IPC Global Technical Advisory Group (TAG) with redefined Terms of Reference (ToR) and list of members. The new IPC Global TAG will be reformulated to expand its scope to all IPC technical development issues and activities, specifically it will:

  • Serve as a technical consultative body and clearing forum for technical issues that require review and decisions at a high level among IPC Global Steering Committee partner agencies;
  • Ensure a systemic and more consistent framework for undergoing rigorous and transparent technical review process and steering greater partner agency ownership of the IPC;
  • Provide a broad review of IPC technical development issues and, where necessary, form and supervise sub-working groups tasked with specific technical activities or research studies that require more focused and in-depth work.

Terms of Reference (ToR) including composition, structure, roles and responsibilities, and working modalities of the reformulated IPC Global TAG are being defined and outlined by the current IPC TAG members.

 

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