After the Response Analysis and Planning Workshop organized by the Food Security and Nutrition Working Group (FSNWG) at the end of April, many countries that attended this event are asking for support in order to better use IPC products for food security and nutrition interventions.

After Uganda, which piloted the use of IPC products for Response Analysis, Sudan is the second country in the region to make the step from Situation Analysis to Response Analysis. Tanzania, Burundi and Djibouti are aiming to make this step during the 3rd trimester of this year. Especially, Djibouti will focus on IPC Urban Food Security Analysis for response analysis in the most affected area: Barbara.

IPC products are made available for decision makers at the global level during the launch of IPC analysis results, through the dissemination of IPC products (maps, bulletins, reports) in different formats: hard copies and/or electronic files (e.g. on the IPC website). On 29th of June, the IPC Technical Working Group in DRC, headed by the Ministry of Agriculture, FAO and WFP Representative Chief, disseminated the results of the 9th IPC Food Security Analysis done two weeks earlier. This analysis showed that around 6.35 million of people are in IPC Humanitarian Emergency Phase, which requires urgent decisions and interventions.

A common understanding of the situation and of the underpinning causes of food insecurity allows better coordination of the intervention and avoids worsening of malnutrition and expansion of the emergency situation. After the technical consultation, the launch of IPC products was concluded with the distribution of IPC maps to decision makers from Government, UN agencies, NGOs, donors and Research Institutions.