IPC EVENTS

The IPC Global Steering Committee is organizing the third IPC Global Event under the theme Chronic Food Insecurity and Nutrition Classifications – Learning from country application, in the framework of the EXPO Milano 2015. The IPC Global Event will take place on 20 May 2015 and will be hosted by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC) in Ispra, Italy.

The overall theme of the EXPO Milano 2015 is Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life. This theme runs through all the events organized both inside and outside the main Milan Exhibition Site. The EXPO 2015 will be an opportunity to reflect and discuss the various attempts to find solutions to the global food insecurity and malnutrition challenges which we face. IPC is globally recognized as a best practice for evidence and standards to inform better food security decisions. In this context, the organization of the IPC Global Event in the framework of the EXPO Milano 2015 provides an important opportunity to showcase IPC and how it is contributing to the abovementioned global challenges of feeding the planet.

In particular, this year’s IPC Global Event will focus on the country application of the new IPC tools and procedures to classify chronic food insecurity and nutrition in order to analyse potential use of these for improved food and nutrition programming and policy. Participants will include representatives of global IPC stakeholders, partners and donor agencies, Regional Inter-government Bodies (ASEAN, CILSS, IGAD, SADC, SAARC and SICA), and relevant food security programming and policy organizations.

The outcomes of the event will be reviewed in the Meeting of the IPC Global Steering Committee that will take place on May 21, 2015 and will include a Special Parthers Session in the morning. The seconda day aims at reflecting on achievements of the new IPC Global Strategic Programme (2014-2018) and discussing priority strategic direction and action plan on the way forward.