Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC)What is IPC and What is its Added Value?

IPCThe Integrated Food Security Phase Classification

Why is IPC needed?

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• Multiple contexts and drivers of food insecurity

• Partial and divergent data sets

• Need for: Multi-sector inputs

Consensus building and ownership

Comparability over space and time

Accountability

Action-oriented analysis

Common Challenges For Food Security Analysis

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• We need a common currency to describe the nature and severity of food insecurity

• We need a minimum set of common standards for food security analysis

• Process for building technical consensus to create common agreement and clear messaging to decision makers

WHAT WE NEED ?

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What is IPC?

IPCThe Integrated Food Security Phase Classification

A set of tools and procedures (protocols) for classifying the nature and severity of food security situations

A process for multiple stakeholders to share information and build technical consensus.

WHAT THE IPC IS…..

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The IPC is not... It is not a methodology to measure

food insecurity – IPC brings together different methodologies

It is not a tool for data collection – but it can inform data collection and identify gaps

It is not an information system

It is not response analysis – but it is the starting point for response analysis

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What are the key elements of IPC?

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Multi-agency stakeholders

carry out collaborative

analysis

Technical Working Group

Matrix

1. Building Consensus

Assuring quality / reliabilit

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Self-assessment

and peer review

4. Quality Assurance

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Transparently methodically

and consensually

analyzing evidence

Referencing evidence against

international standards

Understanding evidence with an integrated

Analytical Framework

Analysis Worksheets

Reference Tables

Analytical Framework

2. Classifying Severity & Factors

Transform analyses

into concise

information for action

Communication Template

3. Communication for Action

IPC FOUR CORE FUNCTIONS

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What is the added value of

IPC?

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IPC Classifies the severity and causes of Acute and Chronic Food Insecurity to inform better decision on programming and policy

Link between complex information and action

A common language for classifying Food Insecurity

Comparability over space and time

Transparency and accountability

Provides the basis for response analysis

Builds technical consensus – platform for partnership

Clear and accessible communication

IPC added value

East and Central Africa – IPC Regional Map, May 2014

Clear Communication and Comparability over space

January – March 2013

Conflict

Comparability over time

Example: South SudanMarch – June 2013

Seasonal deterioration

Conflict

January – March 2014

Expanded Conflict

Broadening Food Insecurity

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Chronic Food Insecurity (2013)

Acute Food Insecurity

Analysis of Both Acute and Chronic

Food Insecurity

IPC (Acute Food Security Analysis Feb 2013)

(IPC Chronic Food Insecurity Pilot, 2013)

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Projected Implementation Map 2014-2016

Consolidation Stage IPC is institutionalized; technical capacity is built; and IPC products are of high quality and used by decision makers

Introduction Stage IPC institutionalization is ongoing; technical-capacity is being built, and, and IPC products are disseminated.

Potential Areas for IPC Application

Areas where IPC application is relevant and where interest among national stakeholde is explored

The Cadre Harmonisé in West Africa

As part of the IPC Global Strategic Programme (2014-2016), the IPC Global Partnership will continue to support the technical development and implementation of the Cadre Harmonisé (CH) which is led by the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS) in the Sahel and West Africa.

CILSS plans for 12 countries to implement the CH during this period: Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Chad, Gam bia, Ghana, Guinea-Conakry, Ivory Coast, Mali,

Mauritania, Niger, Togo and Senegal. 

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Governments

- Food Planning and Monitoring Unit (FPMU) in Bangladesh uses IPC to inform Country Investment Plan (CIP)

- Ministry of Agriculture in Nepal uses IPC/NeKSAP information to guide Agricultural Development Strategy (ADS)

- National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) in Philippines states its intention to use IPC to inform Philippine Development Plan (PDP)

- IPC used by Kenya Food Security Steering Group (KFSSG) to guide national and district level plans

- South Sudan officially adopted IPC to as the situational analysis tool to inform food security programming and response.

Who is using IPC Information and What for?

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Resource Partners

- DFID referred to IPC information in developing 3, 7 and 10 year strategies in Bangladesh

- IPC informed the EU/ECHO Humanitarian Implementation Plan (2014) in Haiti

- Multiple resource partners funding Humanitarian Appeals in Eastern and Central Africa (Somalia, South Sudan, Kenya, DRC)

- USAID is using IPC for early warning and situational analysis to inform strategies, prioritization and resource allocation

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UN Agencies

- In South Sudan, WFP and FAO used IPC to allocate resources for humanitarian response

- FAO used IPC information in funding proposals to EU and DFID for activities in Bangladesh

- WFP used IPC information to target Cash-for-Work activities in Haiti

- WFP used IPC information for targeting PRRO in Mindanao (Philippines) following Typhoon Bopha (2013)

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NGOs

- NGO consortium (SomReP) using IPC as a basis for designing resilience program in Somalia

- IPC informed Joint Needs Assessment (JNA) and guided program targeting by ACF and Oxfam in Bangladesh

- Save the Children, Practical Action use IPC/NeKSAP information to target interventions in Nepal

- Through TWGs NGOs more effectively linked with government counterparts

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