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Food Security & IPC 2.0
FSAC Regional Meeting
Published by IPC Coordination/Secretariat hosted at FAO Afghanistan
Kabul, Afghanistan
Overview
• Definition & Dimensions of Food Security
• Food Security Analysis & Classification
• What IPC is
• How does IPC work
• IPC Achievements in 2012
• Plan for 2013
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What is Food Security?
New Millennium
2001, UN FAO
“Food security is a situation that exists when all people, at all
times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe
and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food
preferences for an active and healthy life.”
The Multi-dimensional Nature of FSFour main dimensions of food security:
1. Physical AVAILABILITY of food
2. Economic, social and physical ACCESS to food
3. Food physical UTILIZATION
4. STABILITY of the other 3 dimensions over time
For food security objectives to be realized, all four dimensions must be fulfilled simultaneously.
Main Problems in Food Security Analysis and Classification
Each doing our own thing…. Each one saying different things…
Too many voices…. Conflicting analyses……
Main Problems…
Lack of clarityNo common definitions for:• food security, • classifying severity of food insecurity situations and related
implications for action
This is well recognized and appreciated by analysts,
donors, governments, implementing agencies,
academics and the media
• No agreement on sources of funding, scale, planning timeframe and role
• High risk of personal, government, agency, and donor biases
What IPC is
Integrated FS analytical framework
A common approach to classify food security
Technical consensus built on transparent evidence-based analysis
Increased relevance to strategic decision making and stronger linkages between information and integrated action
• A set of protocols to classify the severity of food insecurity and provide actionable knowledge for decision support
• Situation analysis => How Severe-Who-How many-Where-Why ?
• Meta-analysis
• An approach applicable in any context
and What it brings…
The IPC consolidates wide-ranging evidence on food-
insecure people to provide core answers to :
How severe is the situation?
Where are areas that are food-insecure?
How many people are food-insecure?
Who are the food-insecure people (socio-economic
characteristics)?
Why are the people food-insecure?
IPC links complex food security information to action.
How does IPC work?
Four functions
1. Building Technical Consensus
Multi sectoral experts conduct IPC analysis in a neutral, evidence-based, and consensus building
manner, then obtain endorsement by key stakeholders
2. Classifying severity and causes
Complex information on severity and causes are classified into meaningful categories for
decision support using tools that require rigor
Four functions
3. Communicating for actions Core aspects of situation analysis are
communicated in a timely, consistent, accessible, and effective manner to all stakeholders
4. Assuring quality Experts ensure technical rigor and neutrality of analysis by agreeing to different levels of
evaluation (self, peer, public)
Food Security Dimensions
Stability (at all times)
Causal Factors
Acute Events or Ongoing Conditions (natural, socio-economic, conflict, disease and others)
&
Non Food Security Specific Contributing Factors:
•Disease •Water/Sanitation•Health Social Services• others….
Vulnerability: (Exposure, Susceptibility, and Resilience to specific hazards events or ongoing conditions).• Livelihood Strategies (food & income sources, coping, & expenditures)
•Livelihood Assets (human, financial, social, physical, & natural)
•Policies, Institutions, and Processes
Food Security Contributing Factors
Food Security Outcomes(directly measured or inferred from
contributing factors)
AvailabilityProductionWild FoodsFood ReservesMarketsTransportation
AccessPhysical AccessFinancial AccessSocial Access
UtilizationFood PreferencesFood PreparationFeeding PracticesFood StorageFood SafetyWater Access
Classification of Acute Phase (current or projected) and Chronic Level
IPC Analytical Framework for Area and Household Classification Draft 23
Feedback
Impact
Food Consumption
Quantity & Nutritional Quality
20 Outcomes
Livelihood Change
Assets & Strategies
Mortality
10 Outcomes
Nutritional Status
Acute Reference TableAnalysis worksheet
IPC achievements 2012
Production of 2 maps / brief reports based on consensual analyses
Establishment of the Afghanistan Food Security Technical Team (AFSTT) consisting of 25 member agencies (+40 individuals)
AFSTT capacities built through dedicated training events (10 days) and workshops (15 days) and lessons learnt exercise (1 day)
Awareness raising of food security stakeholders through regular updates at FSAC national meetings and 3 presentations at regional cluster coordination meetings (FSAC, Nutrition)
IPC products well integrated to FSAC response plan
First IPC Analysis in Afghanistan
• Area-based Acute food security situation Analysis
• Current Situation
• Validity: August – End September 2012
• Rural population
• Classification was done based on evidence, assessments reports and IPC Reference Tables
• Overall Confidence Level of the analysis was 1
• 16 provinces: covering all regions of Afghanistan
• General Rule: 20%
First IPC Analysis Workshop – August 2012
Second IPC Analysis Workshop
• FSAC request to AFSTT
• Area-based analysis was conducted.
• 16 provinces were updated from Last IPC Analysis workshop.
• Additionally 10 provinces were added to the Analysis based on EFSLA.
• Peer Review process was done on the coming day of workshop.
• Limiting Factors of food insecurity were identified for each classification to help Response Analysis WG.
• Fed into CHAP 2013 through Response Analysis WG
Second IPC Analysis Workshop – October 2012
IPC population table for detailed figures
National IPC roll-out: financial and technical links
Funded by
ECHO
National IPC Coordination/Secretariat
hosted at FAO
Regional Support Unit hosted at
Regional Office FAO-Bangkok
Core functions: coordination on
technical matters + advocacy
Global Support Unit hosted at FAO-Rome: Core functions: global development- technical support -
promotion
Afghanistan Food Security
Technical Team
Afghanistan IPC Analysis
Group
Food Security and Agriculture Cluster
***Government is targeted as the ultimate custodian of the IPC process.
Plan for 2013
Decentralization of IPC roll-out to the regions
Afghanistan IPC Analysis GROUPs
Capacity Building: Trainings & Courses
IPC Analysis Workshops
More refined products
National IPC roll-out: joining the process
Afghanistan Food Security
Technical Team(AFSTT)
Afghanistan IPC Analysis Group
National Expertise
Nominate one focal point (and an
alternate)
Propose one national staff for inclusion in
the group
Provide information/evidence
for the analysis
Participate in the validation process
Use IPC productsRaise IPC awareness within your organization
Working Together in Afghanistan to Reach Technical Consensus
Thank you!
for more information, visit:
http://afg.humanitarianresponse.info/resources/ipc
www.ipcinfo.org
or write to:[email protected]
Contact
For more information, please contact:
Fazal Rahman [email protected]
0771 298 325
Darya Khan [email protected]
0773 810 876
IPC Secretariat members in AfghanistanThe Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is a joint initiative from: CARE, FAO, the European Joint Research Centre, FEWSNET, gFSC, Oxfam, Save the Children UK/US, and WFP. IPC is funded in Afghanistan by the European Union and hosted at the Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations, FAO.