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The eight issue of the IPC GSU Quarterly Newsletter, June 2016 highlights important initiatives and developments undertaken at different levels since January 2016, among them: at the global level, the new partnerships secured for IPC, the technical challenges facing the IPC implementation, and the recent endorsement of the IPC Acute Malnutrition Classification tools by the IPC Global Steering Committee.

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

The results of the 2nd round of the IPC Chronic Food Security Analysis conducted in Bangaldesh last year in December 2015 have been officially released at the Technical Seminar held on 28th June 2016, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. 

Following the successful completion and release of the 1st round of [...]

• As of June 2016, 14.12 million people are estimated to be in Crisis (IPC Phase 3), and Emergency (IPC Phase 4) and require urgent humanitarian assistance. This corresponds to 51% of the population and represents an increase of 9.4% compared to the results of the last IPC Analysis conducted in [...]

• As of April 2016, 4.3 million people were estimated to be in Crisis (IPC Phase 3), Emergency (IPC Phase 4) and Catastrophe (IPC Phase 5) and require urgent humanitarian assistance. This is a significant increase compared to the first quarter of 2016 (2.8 million people) and the same [...]

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: 

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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 [...]