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Despite efforts made to contain famine, 6 million people are in need of urgent assistance - the greatest number of food insecure people ever recorded in South Sudan. 

This Brief is part of the IPC Global Brief Series, updated on an annual basis. 

KEY HIGHLIGHTS

• 25 countries over 5 Regions lead regular IPC activities through the multi-stakeholders IPC Country Technical Working Groups, chaired by Governments.
• 3 current Global Resource Partners: DFID, European Union and USAID. Since its inception, the IPC has also benefited from the support of the governments of Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Spain.
• 462 IPC Level I Certified [...]

The European Union, FAO and WFP have joined forces with FEWS NET, UNICEF and regional organisations like CILSS, IGAD and SICA to coordinate needs assessment to increase the impact of humanitarian and resilience responses through the preparation of the “Global Report on Food Crises”. This Global Report aims to enhance coordination and decision making through a neutral analysis that informs programming and implementation. The key objective and strength [...]

• As of March and throughout July 2017, 17 million people are estimated to be in Crisis (IPC Phase 3) and Emergency (IPC Phase 4) and require urgent humanitarian assistance. This corresponds to 60% of the population and represents a 20% increase compared to the results of the last IPC [...]

This report outlines the findings of the independent strategic mid-term review (MTR) of progress and learning from implementation of the IPC Global Strategic Programme (GSP) since early 2014. The mid-term review was undertaken from July 2016 to January 2017. 

The overall results and impact of the programme from inception to date were assessed to indentify adjustments in strategic direction to ensure the relevance of the project and achievement of results in [...]

HOW MANY & WHEN 

• As of March and throughout July 2017, 17 million people are estimated to be in Crisis (IPC Phase 3) and Emergency (IPC [...]

HOW MANY & WHEN:

• As of January 2017, 3.8 million were estimated in Crisis (IPC Phase 3), Emergency (IPC Phase 4) and Catastrophe (IPC Phase 5).
• Newsletters  |   20/02/2017   |  Eastern Africa   |  South Sudan

Cadre Harmonisé (CH) analysis at Senatorial Zone Level in October 2016 confirmed a very severe food insecurity and nutrition situation in Borno state, projecting the population in CH Phase 5 will increase from 55,000 to 115,000 people. A  FEWS NET IPC [...]

The IPC for Acute Malnutrition Classification complements the IPC for Acute Food Insecurity Classification by providing information on non-food security related factors that contribute to acute malnutrition. Additionally, the outcome of the IPC AFI classification is used as an input in the IPC for Acute Malnutrition. IPC for Acute Malnutrition should ideally be carried out at the same unit of analysis and at the same time as the IPC for [...]

The IPC Chronic Food Insecurity Classification follows the IPC core principles - technical consensus building, convergence of evidence, accountability, transparency and comparability - and is conducted according to the four IPC functions, namely Consensus Building, Classifying Severity, for Action, and Quality Assurance as defined in the IPC Technical Manual Version 2.0. 

This Addendum provides additions to the IPC Technical Manual Version 2.0 that are specific for the IPC classification of chronic [...]