RESOURCES

Under existing IPC AFI protocols, populations are classified into five different IPC Phases, given the full set of conditions and outcomes those households are understood to be facing. Given that some households may be relying on humanitarian food security assistance in the current situation to meet their basic food needs, those households might have better outcomes (and therefore be classified in a better IPC Phase) than if they had not received assistance. Similarly, projection analyses in which humanitarian food security assistance is planned and funded or likely to be funded and delivered may lead to classification of households in a better IPC Phase than if no HFA is provided. As such, IPC population estimates of populations in Crisis or worse (IPC Phase 3+) do not reflect total HFA needs for an area, but only HFA needs further to those that have already been met.

Download Guidance on estimating the population in need of humanitarian food security assistance