IPC EVENTS

The fully integrated IPC Food and Nutrition Security Phase Classification will include both the analysis of malnutrition caused by non-food related factors, such as inadequate caring practices and disease-related causal factors, as well as food related factors. Inclusion of a separate but complementary classification for nutrition situations equips the decision-makers with a full understanding of both underlying and direct factors that affect nutritional vulnerability, which will facilitate:

• Better targeting of interventions;
• Increasing coordination between humanitarian and development response; and
• Integrated response for achieving food and nutrition security

The IPC Food & Nutrition Security Phase Classification has a potential to bring together different global groups of stakeholders: the food security community and the public health community, and the humanitarian and development actors.

It will contribute to meeting the global challenge of addressing malnutrition and achieving nutrition security by informing comprehensive programming which includes investments in nutrition and food security.