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The IPC initiative in Southern Africa is guided and implemented within the region through Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Regional Vulnerability Assessment Committee (RVAC) of the Southern Africa Development Community. There is a well-established system of National Vulnerability Assessment Committees (NVACs) that are linked and supported by the SADC RVAC. The IPC is being introduced and implemented through this SADC RVAC-NVAC system.

The IPC analysis is [...]

As of 2013, IPC activities have been led in more than 40 Countries throughout Africa, Asia and Latin America, and 29 countries regularly lead IPC analysis activities to help decision makers better address the hunger and food insecurity challenge.

The IPC initiative is strategically managed by the IPC Global Steering Committee (IPC GSC) composed of representatives from the IPC Global partners, currently at the number of eleven: [...]

The aim of the Food Security Information Network (FSIN) is to be a platform for knowledge sharing in all aspects relating to the generation and communication of food security and nutrition information. FSIN also acts as an advocate and facilitator for timely and evidence-based decision-making in food security and nutrition.

The paper FSIN Landscape of Key Actors describes the key actors concerned with producing information for food [...]

The WFP VAM bulletin provides an overview of the food security trends in 57 countries in six regions and offers an outlook for the 3-6 months following its release.

In this issue:

• Due to conflict, ‘Emergency’ (IPC phase 4) levels of food insecurity exists in local areas of South Sudan, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, South and West Yemen and northern Mali. ‘Crisis’ (IPC phase 3) conditions prevail in [...]

The IPC Team is very delighted to announce the launch 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. The IPC Newsletter will be issued on a quarterly basis and aims to keep stakeholders and partners informed on on-going IPC activities and results, both globally and in the different regions around [...]

This report is the final output of the Chatham House research project Translating Famine Early Warning into Early Action, led by the Energy, Environment and Resources Department. The project explored the barriers that hinder appropriate response to early warning of slow-onset food crises. The report builds on the author's earlier report Famine Early Warning and Early Action: the Cost of Delay, and on the findings of field research in West [...]

Overall, the IPC pilot project in Yemen, led by FAO, contributed to improving the capacity of relevant Government institutions in food security analysis, specifically by:

1. Establishing a dedicated IPC National Technical Working Group (NTWG);

2. Implementing the strategy for the IPC roll out including identification of the institutional setting, assessment of existing in-country capacity, and organization of IPC training and analysis exercises.

3. Assessing available secondary data and information, and developing a [...]

Malawi is one of the three countries of the SADC RVAC who asked to roll-out the IPC with training on IPC Version 2.0, IPC analysis of Acute Food Insecurity and IPC pilot analysis of Chronic Food Insecurity.

In 2012, a Decision-Makers Awareness Raising Workshop took place to sensitize key officials from government and other stakeholders about IPC and the objectives of the Acute and Chronic Training and Analysis workshops which were [...]

This study was commissioned by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET).

The report concludes that a very large number of people (very probably between 143,000 and 273,000, and more likely to be closest to our best estimate of 258,000) died in southern and central Somalia as a result of the food insecurity emergency of 2010-2012. An [...]

Trainings and Events conducted in Asia by the IPC Asia Regional Support Unit during January 2013, in particular:

• IPC Technical Training Version 2.0 in Nepal
• Level 2 IPC Training of Trainers Workshop in Thailand 
• Participation in the ASEAN High Level Consultative Meeting on 29-30 January 2013 in Bangkok, Thailand.
• IPC Asia Side Event linked into the ASEAN/FAO High Level Consultation (HLC) on Integrating Nutrition into ASEAN Food Security Framework and its Strategic Plan of Action.