News
Highlights
New! - Where Will the Next Food Crisis Strike?
IPC in the Science Daily
Feb. 2010
This article referes to the IPC as new system that can bring scientific results closer to the decision making process thus facilitating and accelerating the reaction time to food security.
> Where Will the Next Food Crisis Strike? Extended Geographical Monitoring Using Satellite Observation
New! - Post Deyr ’09/10 Assessment Analysis
The Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU) and FEWSNET gave a presentation on the Post Deyr ’09/10 Assessment Analysis during a Special SSS FSEDSC Meeting held on January 29th 2010. A final IPC analysis (and a comparison with the previous IPC map) integrates all of the sectoral data/analysis into an overall assessment of the current situation.
> Presentation on the Post Deyr ’09/10 Assessment Analysis , Press Release
IPC Training of Trainers (Tot) Course
from 23 to 27 November 2009
Nairobi
The Regional Food Security and Nutrition Working Group (FSNWG)organized an IPC Training of Trainers (ToT) Course with the main objective of forming country level IPC trainers able to strengthen national capacities in IPC analysis through dedicated training exercises. The training event were opened to participants from Burundi, DRC, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
IPC: using information to fight food insecurity
written by the GRET Team, ROSA - Operational Food Security Network (EU)
Nov. 2009
This Month's Highlight of the ROSA Bulletin is the IPC which is presented as an innovative approach to qualify each food insecurity situation, determine its level of severity, identify causes and provide tools for decision-makers. The article also proposes some orientations to address key questions about the IPC development in terms of technical development, strategy and governance.
Hungry for Change: An eight-step, costed plan of action to tackle global child hunger
Save the Children
Nov. 2009
Save the Children just released the report on “Hungry for Change: An eight-step, costed plan of action to tackle global child hunger” which makes a compelling case for greater political leadership to put an end to needless child suffering and death, and proposes a concrete action plan to reduce undernutrition. IPC is mentioned as an innovative approach for increasing the likelihood of early and preventive action as it provides relevant, accountable and timely information and analysis to decision makers.
> Hungry for Change: An eight-step, costed plan of action to tackle global child hunger
Study on Review of Nutrition and Mortality Indicators for the IPC - Reference Levels and Decision-making
Commissioned by the UN-SCN Task Force on Assessment, Monitoring and Evaluation (TF/AME) and the IPC Global Partnership
Helen Young and Susan Jaspars
Nov. 2009
The study provides guidance to IPC practitioners on the significance and use of nutrition and mortality indicators for the classification of different food security phases. It also provides a very rich basis for further work, including in strengthening linkages between food security and nutrition analysis and in revisiting the definition and interpretation of the reference levels of various indicators for the classification of the depth of food insecurity.
IPC External Links and Relationships Study
Jeremy Shoham and John Borton
Nov. 2009
The study was commissioned by the IPC Partnership in order to explore the future position and profile of the IPC tool and relationship with existing or planned information-based initiatives and within the global institutional architecture reform.
Updated! - Regional Technical Workshop for Central and Eastern Africa
6th - 9th October 2009, Nairobi, Kenya
Regional Food Security and Nutrition Working Group (FSNWG)
The purpose of the workshop was to gather technical food security professionals from Central and Eastern Africa to develop a regional ‘Food Security and Nutrition Situation Analysis’ using the IPC approach and building on the unique data collection and institutional settings in each country.
> Agenda, Updated Regional Map and Summary of the improvements
Updated! - The 2nd IPC Pilot in Tajikistan
Sept. 2009
Following the first IPC pilot conducted in Tajikistan in June 2007 by WFP, the purpose of this second pilot was twofold: i) to update the IPC situation analysis map and ii) in turn fine-tune the food security monitoring system with the updated IPC analysis. Technical support from the IPC global level was provided to this exercise through a support mission led by EC-JRC and WFP Focal Points.
> Final Report of Activities , IPC in Tjk Executive Brief (Draft) , Minutes of the IPC Regional Workshop Sept. 09
Updated! - IPC Global Workshop
Review and Consultation on IPC development and future plans
June 2009; Johannesburg, South Africa
The purpose of the workshop was to engage with and consult IPC practitioners, with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa, and review IPC implementation in the regions.
> Worshop Overview and Agenda, Welcome and Opening Speeches, Final Report
> Day 1 Presentations, Day 2 Presentations, Market Place Presentations
Proceedings of the IPC Lessons Learning Workshop for East and Central Africa
Nov. 2009; Nairobi, Kenya
Proceedings of the IPC Regional Lessons Learning Workshop hosted by the Food Security Nutrion Working Group (FSNWG) from 13th to 14th November 2008 in Nairobi.
Summary of WFP Experience with the IPC during the NAF
Burundi, Cote D’Ivoire, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Uganda
Nov. 2007
> Summary
New IPC maps released
Burundi, Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya, and Somalia have recently updated their national IPC maps. DRC and Uganda also produced their first IPC maps in the summer of 2008.
> Burundi map July 08, Cote d'Ivoire map April 08, DRC first IPC map July 08
> Southern Sudan first IPC map , Kenya map LRA August 08, Somalia map post Gu August 08, Uganda first IPC map July 08
IPC in the News
New! - Where Will the Next Food Crisis Strike?
IPC in the Science Daily
Feb. 2010
This article referes to the IPC as new system that can bring scientific results closer to the decision making process thus facilitating and accelerating the reaction time to food security.
> Where Will the Next Food Crisis Strike? Extended Geographical Monitoring Using Satellite Observation
IPC in The Food security in the World Disasters Report 2009
June 2009
The IPC is presented as an innovative approach to predicting food shortages, starvation and famine which are often the most devastating consequences of a disaster.
> FACTBOX - Food security in the World Disasters Report 2009
IPC: using information to fight food insecurity
written by the GRET Team, ROSA - Operational Food Security Network (EU)
Nov. 2009
This Month's Highlight of the ROSA Bulletin is the IPC which is presented as an innovative approach to qualify each food insecurity situation, determine its level of severity, identify causes and provide tools for decision-makers. The article also proposes some orientations to address key questions about the IPC development in terms of technical development, strategy and governance.
Hungry for Change: An eight-step, costed plan of action to tackle global child hunger
Save the Children
Nov. 2009
Save the Children just released the report on “Hungry for Change: An eight-step, costed plan of action to tackle global child hunger” which makes a compelling case for greater political leadership to put an end to needless child suffering and death, and proposes a concrete action plan to reduce undernutrition. IPC is mentioned as an innovative approach for increasing the likelihood of early and preventive action as it provides relevant, accountable and timely information and analysis to decision makers.
> Hungry for Change: An eight-step, costed plan of action to tackle global child hunger
Crisis management:assessing food security
IPC headlines on EU Joint Research Centre (JRC) site
March 05, 2009
The JRC's Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC) is one of the eight agencies and international NGOs working together to implement the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).
IPC in Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE: New food security tool first for the region
IRIN NEWS
April 24, 2008
Vulnerability to Hunger: Improving Food Crisis Responses in Fragile States
Flores M. and Andrews C. , UN World institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER)
May 2008
Africa: New Improved Disaster Management Tool
Relief web; IRIN news
Nov. 14, 2007
East and Central Africa: IPC Regional Outlook Map 2008
Kenya IPC Map
(August 2008)
Uganda IPC Map
(July 2008)
DRC IPC Map
(July 2008)
Somalia IPC Map
(August 2008)
Burundi IPC Map
(July 2008)
