RESOURCES

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 with the regional IPC Steering Committee for Eastern and Central Africa of the FSNWG, support FAO on the implementation of the IPC in CAR.

The main recommendations from the mission are highlighted below:

• Advocate for the development of the essential information systems.
• Give the priority to chronic food security analysis.
• Increase the IPC visibility and secure the collaboration of the Food Security cluster members to collect basic information.
• Conduct the analysis at a decentralized level.