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This is the final evaluation of the first phase of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Global Strategic Programme (GSP), from 2014 to 2018. Focused at a strategic level, the evaluation has a strong learning purpose; it makes recommendations for the next phase of the GSP. It also fulfils an accountability purpose to the GSP’s three donor agencies. The overall strategic objective of the GSP is that ‘decision makers at the global, regional and country level use the IPC for decision-making and this is providing the evidence and standards for better decisions that improve emergency and development policy and programming’. This evaluation places use of the IPC centre-stage. The findings are based upon key informant interviews, especially with IPC users at global, regional and country levels; visits to four countries; remote interviews covering a further three countries; an online survey targeting IPC users; and documentation review.