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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 [...]

Countries in the East and Central Africa Region are leading in the implementation of the IPC worldwide. Building on years of implementation, the IPC has become a reference in the region for evidence-based and comparable food security analysis. This has been achieved through a true partnership between government, humanitarian and development actors in building technical consensus.

IPC products form an essential component of country early warning [...]

After several past IPC consultations and exercises in the region, the IPC took off in Asia in 2012 with a regional project funded by ECHO which provided country level IPC training and capacity building support. This initiative proved successful as it demonstrated that the IPC was well suited to the Asia context and added value by assisting governments and partners in decision making to address food insecurity. As [...]

Central America and the Caribbean is the latest region where the IPC is being introduced. The process of introducing the IPC started with 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 [...]

Since the early 2000s, the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS) has been engaged in the development and testing of the Harmonized Framework for the Analysis and Identification of Areas at Risk and Vulnerable Groups in the Sahel, more commonly referred to as the Cadre Harmonisé (CH). Initially the CH was tested in six countries (Burkina, Chad, Senegal, Mali, Mauritania and the Niger), with [...]

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: [...]