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Since 1994, the Food Security Analysis Unit (FSAU) at FAO has been developing and using a tool to improve the analysis and effective response in food security emergency contexts. This tool, the Integrated Food Security and Humanitarian Phase Classification (IPC), contributes significantly to on-going global efforts to standardize core elements of humanitarian analysis and response (e.g., the SMART, Benchmarking, Needs [...]

The IPC Manual Version 2.0 aims at meeting these challenges and offers new innovations, such as the IPC analytical framework and prototype tools for analyzing chronic food insecurity situations. The IPC Manual Version 2.0 also reconciles key differences in approaches to food security analysis among national governments and international agencies, allowing for greater buy-in and collaboration. The leaflet highlights the key innovations and improvements in IPC version 2.0

While the IPC was originally developed in a complex emergency context, its expanded usage is often in non-crisis and developmental contexts, which has provoked  demand for clearer explanation of how it is relevant in these contexts.

This paper aims to explain: 1) why the IPC is relevant in both crisis and non‐crisis/developmental contexts, and (2) how the IPC does this as per its new Version 2.0. These issues are important to [...]

Activities are moving swiftly along in most countries and the IPC Asia Team is very busy in supporting activities at country level: it is now in the middle of several countries getting the Technical Working Groups/Analyst Groups formed and trained. The plan is to have the final IPC drafts ready as follows: Nepal by end September, Pakistan by mid October, Bangladesh by end of October, and Cambodia by late November, [...]

In this issue:

• Focus Project Countries Activities 
• Supplementary Project Countries and
• Regional activities. 

Introduction of IPC into the Asian region is part of a global process facilitated by the Inter-agency Global IPC Initiative and guided by the IPC Global Steering Committee. The IPC initiative is committed to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of response and to strengthen existing mechanism for disaster preparedness, early warning, and risk reduction in the food security sector.

With technical support from the Global Support Unit (GSU); FAO and WFP [...]

This report is the result of a mission conducted by ACAPS in support to FAO under the umbrella of the regional Food Security and Nutrition Working Group (FSNWG).

The field mission took place from 7 to 22 March 2012. The main objectives of the ACAPS mission were the following:

• Perform the overall data or information and institutional mapping for the IPC system in CAR.
• Through a collaboration [...]