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IPC in Yemen – Improving Government Capacity in food security analysis

DATE
Jun 2013
REGION - COUNTRY
Asia Yemen

In Yemen, the Version 2.0 of IPC was introduced and piloted by FAO with the support of the IPC Global Support Unit (GSU) and funding from the IPC-ECHO project from November 2011 to December 2012.

Under this project, the IPC created a coordination forum, the IPC National Technical Working Group (IPC NTWG), that brings together governmental and non- governmental stakeholders to discuss and analyse the food security situations in Yemen. The IPC NTWG was established within the Food Security and Agriculture Cluster (FSAC) to ensure multi-stakeholder participation. As a result, the IPC institutional set-up helped define the role of each ministry and organization in food securing monitoring and analysis.

By the creation of the IPC NTWG, the IPC played an important role in facilitating the food security analysis work in the country based on secondary data sources obtained from the various food security stakeholders. IPC Trainings and Analysis Workshops were organized, and the first analytical products, IPC map and food insecurity overview, were released in August 2012. Under this project, Yemen also benefited from the IPC cross-country learning exercise with the organization of an experience sharing visit of selected national candidates in East African countries that include Ethiopia and Kenya.

Overall, the IPC pilot project in Yemen, led by FAO, contributed to improving the capacity of relevant Government institutions in food security analysis, specifically by:

  • Establishing a dedicated IPC National Technical Working Group (NTWG);
  • Implementing the strategy for the IPC roll out including identification of the institutional setting, assessment of existing in-country capacity, and organization of IPC training and analysis exercises.
  • Assessing available secondary data and information, and developing a comprehensive report with the recommendations to address the national data and information gap.
  • Raising awareness on IPC with key stakeholders (i.e. decision makers, including the relevant clusters, and technical experts).

At the end of the project, the second phase of the IPC analysis was conducted in February 2013 and produced an IPC map using IPC tools. Two Trainings Workshops were also conducted one in Aden and the other in Al-Hodeida and covered 14 Governorates and 41 participants from government and non- government stockholder and for the first time Local NGOs.

Currently, the IPC is coordinated by an IPC National Coordinator and the NTWG composed of over 15 governmental and non-governmental stakeholders.

 

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