In the IPC system, Capacity Development aims at ensuring the professionalization, decentralization and sustainability of IPC practitioners’ technical capacity. Activities related to Capacity Development take place at country, regional and global level.
The IPC relies on a wide range of activities and tools for Capacity Development, the corner stone of these being the IPC Certification Programme. The initiatives related to IPC Capacity Development are described below:
The IPC Certification Programme is relevant for food security experts who are engaged or want to engage in IPC activities at global, regional and/or country levels. The IPC Certification Process is designed to ensure that applicants acquire and can demonstrate the following:
There are three IPC certificates and related credentials:
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The IPC Cross-Country Learning Exchange (CCLE) programme has been designed to support candidates within the IPC Certification Programme, providing them with the opportunity to participate in activities set as requisites for certification, especially, but not exclusively, the IPC Acute Food Insecurity Level 2 Certification. The CCLE programme also serves to strengthen the capacity and skills of newly certified IPC Level 2 Trainers by providing them with opportunities to facilitate IPC Level 1 trainings and IPC analyses in other countries. The CCLE programme is also an opportunity to promote cross-country learning and fertilization to improve the quality and standardization of IPC analyses across countries, therefore, contributing to the quality of IPC products.
The IPC course curriculum activity addresses increasing global and regional demand for IPC analyses and trained personnel able to support such analyses. Based on current IPC training and certification systems, the activity aims to:
In this first phase (Jan 2018-Mar 2019), the current IPC training and certification package (updated to reflect IPC Technical Manual 3.0) will be expanded to form the basis of an academic course suitable and relevant for graduate-level (that is, masters and doctoral level) students. Development of this curriculum will be undertaken based on a global collaborative network, involving a lead university responsible for drafting the curriculum, and partner universities at the regional level critiquing and reviewing the curriculum as it is drafted.
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