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The East and Central Africa Region was the staring point for the worldwide implementation of IPC. Currently, most of the countries in the Region conduct IPC Acute Food Insecurity Analyses, including: Burundi, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.

Building on years of implementation, IPC has become a [...]

The sixth issue of the IPC Newsletter highlights important initiatives and technical developments undertaken at global level, among them the extension of the IPC Global Strategic Programme until 2018, the IPC-Chronic and Nutrition Working Group Meetings, the new IPC Quality Compliance Review Policy and Process, and the development of the IPC GSU Quality Compliance Review and Strategic Engagement Plan.

This issue also features recent IPC impacts, results and [...]

The fifth issue of the IPC Newsletter highlights important initiatives and technical developments undertaken at global level, among them the 10th Anniversary of IPC, the Roll-out of the IPC-Chronic Classification, the Piloting of the IPC Nutrition Phase Classification, and the IPC Global Awareness Raising for Decision Making.

This issue also features recent IPC impacts, results and progress achieved at regional and country level in Africa, Latin America, Asia & Near [...]

Since the early 2000s, the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS) has been engaged in the development and testing of the Harmonized Framework for the Analysis and Identification of Areas at Risk and Vulnerable Groups in the Sahel, more commonly referred to as the Cadre Harmonisé (CH). Initially the CH was tested in six countries (Burkina, Chad, Senegal, Mali, Mauritania and Niger), with further [...]

The Department for International Development (DFID) of the United Kingdom is supporting the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Initiative through a 3-year grant project of GBP 1.7 million that started in March 2012.

 In November 2013, DFID has also granted a Top-Up amount of GBP 1,048,417 to achieve 3 additional project components. As of today, the project has reached 74% of financial delivery and a full delivery is expected by [...]

This brief, based on the results of the Baseline Study on the Use and Impact of IPC, highlights the role played by IPC in positively influencing security policy and resource allocation targeting specific geographic areas for emergency food security responses. Global, regional and national stakeholders unanimously agree that IPC processes have contributed to improved coordination and collaboration among actors responding to acute food insecurity emergencies. By working closely and consistently [...]

The fourth issue of the IPC Newsletter highlights important initiatives and technical developments undertaken at global level, among them the Global Event on the Use and Impact of IPC, the Launch of the IPC Chronic Food Insecurity Classification and the new IPC Nutrition Classification initiative. It also features recent IPC impacts, results and progress achieved at Regional and Country Level in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Near East.

After many years of use of the IPC approach to inform the need of interventions with short-term objectives to address crisis situations, the version 1.0 of the IPC Chronic Food Insecurity Classification, also abbreviated as IPC-Chronic Classification, has been developed to complement IPC Acute Food Insecurity Classification to provide invaluable information for decision makers that focus on medium and long term objectives.

It makes IPC an inclusive classification system to inform [...]

Although nutrition elements are integrated within the IPC analysis, currently the IPC does not incorporate a full nutrition situation overview in terms of considering malnutrition caused by other factors than food insecurity.

A new interest has risen to complement the standard IPC analysis with a comprehensive nutrition component. In response to this demand from countries and governments, the IPC Global Partnership has committed to developing IPC Nutrition Classification tools and procedures [...]

Learning from years of implementation, the Version 2.0 of the IPC technical guidance was released in 2012, leading to greater rigor and quality of products. Since then, the IPC scale has been expanded to measure chronic food insecurity in non-crisis and development contexts, through an iterative learning and prototype application process. The version 1.0 of the IPC Chronic Food Insecurity Classification was endorsed by the IPC Global Steering Committee in [...]