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Central America and the Caribbean is the latest region where the IPC has been introduced. The IPC introduction process started in Honduras, in May 2010. Since then, IPC trainings and analyses have taken place in four other countries: Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Haiti.

In all these countries, different food security institutions and partners, including national Governments, have expressed interest in the IPC as a way to [...]

The IPC initiative in Southern Africa is guided and implemented within the region through the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Regional Vulnerability Assessment Committee (RVAC). The SADC RVAC provides technical coordination and support to SADC member countries in the region to help strengthen country food security information systems, and support regional monitoring. There is a well-established system of National Vulnerability Assessment Committees (NVACs) that are linked and supported [...]

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is playing an active role in building evidence-based technical consensus on the severity of food insecurity in South Sudan. This is critical as a coordinated and unified message allows decision makers to move forward and respond strategically, in a timely way. 

An IPC Analysis provides information on i) the severity of the situation (How bad); ii) the geographical areas most [...]

ict.HOW MANY & WHEN:  In April-May 2014, although with limited confidence, IPC national partners estimate that roughly 1.7 million people are severely food insecure in Crisis and Emergency situations requiring urgent humanitarian assistance (IPC Phases 3 & 4, for the areas classified only). This is a sharp increase from 900,000 people estimated in November 2013 [...]

Watch the video here: Cindy Holleman on the IPC food insecurity analysis tool

The third issue of the new IPC Newsletter highlights important initiatives and technical developments undertaken at Global Level, among them the Launch of the IPC Global Strategic Programme and Vision (2014-2016), the 3rd Chronic Scale Synthesis Meeting, and the ISS Pilots in Tanzania and Honduras. It also features recent IPC impacts, results and progress achieved at Regional and Country Level in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

The IPC Team is happy to announce the publication of the second Issue of the new IPC Newsletter, which has been redesigned to include feature stories, as well as regular briefing sections of regional IPC news updates and upcoming IPC events.
Newsletters  |   30/11/2013   |  Global

This brief aims to describe the IPC Information Support System (ISS), a new innovative web-based application which has been designed to efficiently create, store, and disseminate the IPC version 2.0 analyses and information. The ISS simplifies the IPC analysis process by the digitization of the IPC version 2.0 core functions (Building Technical Consensus, Classifying Severity and Causes, Communicating for Action, and Quality Assurance), procedures and templates.

The ISS [...]

With the accelerating adoption of the IPC Version 2.0 around the world, there is a growing demand for IPC experts with demonstrated knowledge of the IPC new approach and tools. In response, the IPC Certification Programme was launched in June 2013.

This certification programme presents a unique opportunity for a person to become a globally certified IPC Professional. It builds IPC capacity through knowledge, practice and professional standards. [...]

After many years of use in crisis situations, the IPC Acute Food Insecurity Phase Classification scale is now being complemented with a new IPC scale that measures chronic food insecurity in non-crisis and development contexts.

IPC countries communicated that they needed not only tools for acute and transitory food insecurity, but better information and measurements on the extent and severity of country chronic food insecurity to be [...]