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IPC GSU Increasing Support in Afghanistan

DATE
Jul 2015
REGION - COUNTRY
Asia Afghanistan

From Febraury 2015 to June 2016, Afghanistan benefited from a series of IPC activities namely: high level strategic mission, IPC-Acute Analysis Workshop, IPC Quality Review (QR) and IPC-Acute Tailored Training. It is the first country in the history of IPC to have conducted all the above exercises consecutively.  

IPC was introduced in Afghanistan in August 2011 with the financial support from the European Commission Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department (ECHO), and led by FAO through the Food Security and Agriculture Cluster (FSAC). From 2011 to 2014, five IPC Acute Analyses were conducted in Afghanistan. However, due to the lack of technical consensus on the IPC results, only part of the them was utilized in the Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) and the Common Humanitarian Action Plan (CHAP). As a result, a high-level IPC strategic mission was requested by several IPC partner organizations in the country to conduct a technical review of the Afghanistan Acute Analysis process. Following this request, a quality review and a tailored training also took place in Afghanistan as part of the recommended action plan.

The review was designed to guide the IPC Technical Working Group and IPC Partners on the technical and process areas to address that can strengthen IPC analysis in the country. In February 2015, a high level strategic mission led by Ms. Cindy Holleman, the IPC Global Programme Manager visited Afghanistan and presented the findings of the technical review of the IPC analysis and processes. The mission facilitated discussions on the identification of priority areas for improvements and a ‘way forward’ strategy. The major output of the mission was the formulation of the IPC Afghanistan Strategy 2015-2019, with the goal to provide a foundation for collaboration among country-level stakeholders and to ensure IPC Analysis provides an evidence-base that positively influences food security policies, resource allocation and programming in the country.  

Similarly, a tailored training to address the shortcomings of the Acute Analysis of September 2014 was developed by the technical officer of the IPC GSU. The training was conducted in early June 2015. Overall participants evaluated the training as satisfactory.

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