IPC Guidance Notes

This guidance note provides information on how to explore the linkages between IPC Acute Food Insecurity (AFI) and IPC Acute Malnutrition (AMN) scales. This document should be used when the AFI and AMN analyses show different phases for the same [...]

This guidance provides information to IPC analysts on conducting gender-sensitive IPC Acute Food Insecurity analyses. More specifically, the guidance is divided into two sections: the first section addresses the rationale and parameters for gender-sensitive analysis, whereas the second section focuses [...]

This document aims at providing more in-depth knowledge about Famine classifications, especially to the analysts and facilitators analysing a possible Famine situation. As a result, the document includes detailed guidance for use of the special additional protocols, and on evidence needed for [...]

The IPC partnership defines ‘risk of Famine’ as the reasonable probability of an area going into Famine (IPC Phase 5) in the projected period, when Famine is not the most likely scenario.  When analysts assess that the most likely scenario [...]

Under existing IPC AFI protocols, populations are classified into five different IPC Phases, given the full set of conditions and outcomes those households are understood to be facing. Given that some households may be relying on humanitarian food security assistance [...]

The war in Ukraine, which started in 2014 but escalated markedly in February 2022, is not only devastating the lives of Ukrainians and decimating key parts of the infrastructure of Ukraine, but also has wide repercussions outside the country due [...]

The War in Ukraine started on 24 February 2022 with Russia’s military offensive in Ukraine. The war, besides devastating the lives of the population of Ukraine and decimating key parts of the infrastructure and economy of the country, has wide [...]

In 2020, several humanitarian agencies issued warnings of worsening food security in countries around the world and raised the possibility of potential famines unless quick action was taken to counter the effects of conflict, climate-related shocks, and the economic and other effects [...]

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