This brochure provides a quick overview of the Integarted Food Security Phase Classification (IPC)  Key technical aspects Use and usefulness of the tool Coverage, and  Governance. 

The food security situation continues to be hampered and deteriorating due to prolonged conflict, displacement, humanitarian access constraints, climatic shocks and macro-economic instability.

Despite efforts made to contain famine, 6 million people are in need of urgent assistance - the greatest number of food insecure people ever recorded in South Sudan. 

This Brief is part of the IPC Global Brief Series, updated on an annual basis.  KEY HIGHLIGHTS 25 countries over 5 Regions lead regular IPC activities through the multi-stakeholders IPC Country Technical Working Groups, chaired by Governments. 3 current Global Resource Partners: DFID, [...]

The European Union, FAO and WFP have joined forces with FEWS NET, UNICEF and regional organisations like CILSS, IGAD and SICA to coordinate needs assessment to increase the impact of humanitarian and resilience responses through the preparation of the “Global [...]

  As of March and throughout July 2017, 17 million people are estimated to be in Crisis (IPC Phase 3) and Emergency (IPC Phase 4) and require urgent humanitarian assistance. This corresponds to 60% of the population and represents a 20% increase [...]

This report outlines the findings of the independent strategic mid-term review (MTR) of progress and learning from implementation of the IPC Global Strategic Programme (GSP) since early 2014. The mid-term review was undertaken from July 2016 to January 2017.  The overall [...]

Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen are currently facing alarming levels of food insecurity.  As of March 2017, nearly 25 million people are facing food crisis, emergency and catastrophe (IPC Phase 3, 4 and 5) and require urgent humanitarian assistance across the [...]

As of January 2017, 3.8 million were estimated in Crisis (IPC Phase 3), Emergency (IPC Phase 4) and Catastrophe (IPC Phase 5). As of February-April 2017, the number of people estimated in need of humanitarian assistance (IPC phase 3 and above) has [...]

Cadre Harmonisé (CH) analysis at Senatorial Zone Level in October 2016 confirmed a very severe food insecurity and nutrition situation in Borno state, projecting the population in CH Phase 5 will increase from 55,000 to 115,000 people. A  FEWS NET IPC [...]