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The purpose of this Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Technical Manual Version 2.0 is to provide food security analysts with technical standards and guidelines for conducting IPC analysis. Version 2.0 introduces revised standards based on field application and expert consultation over the past several years.

The manual is targeted to technicians/practitioners. The manual is not an overview of the broader fields of food security, nutrition and livelihoods analysis. It is [...]

The purpose of this document is to provide standardized guidance to country gFSC and IPC Technical Working Groups (TWG) on collaboration at country level for effective planning of IPC analysis and use of its findings to inform humanitarian plans and response. 

It highlights the issues related to the use of IPC in the Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HPC) and outlines the actions and good practice for the gFSC [...]

Based on the final conclusions of the IPC Global Emergency Review Commitee (ERC) and IPC SS TWG updated IPC analysis December 2015, the IPC Global Partners acknowledge the concerns on the severity of the situation and the lack of evidence and knowledge on the highly affected areas. Specifically: 

Newsletters  |   10/02/2016   |  Eastern Africa   |  South Sudan

This e-learning course, entitled Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) - version 2.0, provides an overview of IPC approach. The goal of this course is to provide guidance on how to use IPC tools and procedures specifically focused on acute food insecurity. Duration: 9 hours Audience: The target audience of the e-learning course includes:

• Food security analysts, technical staff, field personnel who are involved in  the collection, management, analysis, and reporting [...]

Twenty seven percent of the total population in eighteen vulnerable districts in the northern and southern parts of Bangladesh suffer from chronic food insecurity and nine percent of this population is severely chronically food insecure. 

The chronically food insecure population usually consumed inadequate quantity of food for [...]

• Currently, 3.1 million are in Crisis (IPC Phase 3) and 830,000 in Emergency (IPC Phase 4), and of extreme concern are 30,000 people estimated to be Catastrophe (IPC Phase 5) requiring urgent humanitarian assistance;
• Famine is not declared at [...]

The seventh issue of the IPC Newsletter highlights important initiatives and developments undertaken at global level, among them: insights from the 3rd IPC Global Event, held in the framework of the EXPO Milano 2015, the new IPC Quality Assurance, Compliance and Learning Strategy, the prototype IPC Indicative Analysis, and the strengthened partnership between IPC and the European Commission.

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

Originally developed by FAO in Somalia in 2004, the IPC has been extensively applied in different countries and contexts. In 2007, the IPC became a Multi-Agency Partnership, now led by 11 Partners under the results-based IPC Global Strategic Programme (2014-2018) which was launched in February 2014. Since its inception, IPC has been continuously tested and refined [...]

This four-page brief outlines the IPC Global Programme strategic direction, focus action areas and results for the five years period.

 The IPC Global Strategic Programme (2014-2018) provides:

• An overarching and shared vision for the IPC comprising country, regional and global strategic priorities for the five years period;
• A results-based programme with clear outcome, output and activity levels, and monitoring systems ;
• A common framework androad map for achieving IPC governance and institutionalization, capacity building, [...]

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 [...]