IPC Newsletter

Working at full speed in 2016 to meet new challenges

Within the framework of the IPC Global Strategic Programme (2014-2018), which was initiated

in 2014, IPC was able to achieve major milestones. The continuous support in 2015 from IPC

Global Partners and resource partners, buy-in and ownership from different stakeholders, the

increasing confidence in IPC by numerous governments and partners, are fostering the ever-

increasing determination and hard work from IPC global management and support unit to

deliver the commitments planned for 2016.

Indeed, we are upbeat about 2016 and beyond. It is important to highlight that this year’s plan

has been developed building on the important achievements made in 2015, among them:

Successful IPC GSU strategic engagement missions in Southern Africa and Asia, with visits to Malawi, South Africa, Botswana, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar.

Launching of IPC Quality Reviews, with real-time and retroactive reviews for both IPC chronic and acute food insecurity analysis.

Establishment of the IPC Food Security Working Group.

Organization of the 3rd Global Event at EXPO Milano.

Completion of IPC current and projected acute food insecurity analyses by over 15 countries as well as progress in the chronic roll-out implementation, which is now completed in several countries that are currently disseminating results.

Advancement in the IPC certification processes of practitioners in the field with a record of 35% increase in L1 Certified Analysts and 50% increase in L2 Trainers achieved.

The IPC Global Strategic Programme continues to be the solid roadmap for this year’s

implementation of IPC, even in the face of numerous challenges that have been turned into

the following key priorities for 2016:

Consolidation and sustainability of IPC;

From IPC quality reviews to quality improvements of IPC products;

Dissemination of findings, and advocacy and documentation on the use of IPC acute and chronic analysis;

Strategic communication;

Setting global standards for a fully integrated classification of food and nutrition security.

According to IPC Global Strategic Programme, the IPC Global partnership focuses on promoting

the transition toward full government ownership and institutionalization of the IPC products.

This may depend on the degree of IPC implementation and adoption in the countries in respect

to IPC institutionalization, IPC technical capacity, and whether high quality IPC products are

being produced and used by decision makers within the country. IPC GSU continues to play a

key role in supporting countries towards full consolidation in a more strategic manner and

based on the needs and available resources. To this purpose, the IPC GSU has drafted a

Strategic Framework and Roadmap to IPC consolidation, which describes the recommended

process to achieve IPC consolidation.

Editorial Note

The 2015 was an intense and challenging year for the IPC Global Support Unit.

We apologize for the interruption of the service, we are happy to resume the IPC GSU Quarterly Newsletter and commitment to inform our audience on the major IPC initiatives and developments at global, regional and country level.

During the Newsletter break, we have continued to update latest IPC developments on the IPC Global website. Users can catch up with the past news at: http://www.ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-newsroom/ipcinfo-newsroom-archive/en/

This issue number n. 8 is comprised of articles on the challenges facing the IPC implementation, the new partnership secured for IPC as well as progress in implementing IPC activities in the various countries within the framework of the Global Strategic Programme. Additional items include information on past and upcoming events, and IPC resources released in the last quarter of 2015.

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Global News and Quarter’s Features Inside the issue

IPC Global News and Features…………..1

Working at full Speed in 2016.

A "New and Renewed "IPC Global Part-nership

gFSC and IPC Strengthening their Cooper-

ation

Towards a full Harmonized IPC Classifica-tion System

E-learning Course on IPC Version 2.0

IPC Regions and Countries…….…………..3 - IPC in East and Central Africa - IPC in Southern Africa - IPC support to CH in West Africa - IPC in Asia and Near East - IPC in Latin America and Caribbean

IPC Worldwide Quarterly News, Views and Information. Issue 8, June 2016

"New and Renewed" IPC Global Partnerships

The use of IPC at country level, the results from the improved analysis, and better response have encouraged both new and existing

partners to support its development and implementation for the next three years.

USAID, which is already supporting the IPC Quality and Compliance activities through

WFP, has recently confirmed to broaden the scope of its support by contributing to

other outcomes of the IPC Global Programme strategic programme and country-related

activities. In this framework, USAID has joined the European Union and the UK

Government, which already renewed their support in 2015 and will be co-funding the

IPC Global Programme until 2018. The consolidation of IPC as standard tool to direct

food security and nutrition policy decisions is a key achievement of the FAO-EU INFORMED Programme. The UK Government has also

extended a new phase of the IPC programme for the period April 2015-March 2018.

Another important partnership has been secured with the Inter-governmental Authority on Development

(IGAD), increasing the number of IPC Global Partners to 12. The IPC Global Steering Committee (SC) already

included two regional intergovernmental bodies, CILSS for West Africa and SICA for Latin America. IGAD’s

membership reinforces the role of the regional institutions that steer directly the global strategic decisions and

directions of the IPC initiative, ensuring a regional governmental ownership.

IGAD’s membership and interest in IPC is motived by IPC prior experience in Somalia, which is an IGAD founding Member State. In

addition, IPC is now better recognized as a global Food Security Classification tool with coverage in over 17 African countries. IPC is

also a crucial input in the wider resilience agenda being driven by IGAD and contributes significantly to the regional Food Security and

Nutrition Working Group (FSNWG) that is co-chaired by IGAD and FAO. Thus, as one of the IPC Partner’s, IGAD will play a crucial role in

advocating and supporting the adoption of IPC at both continental level in Africa and other parts of the world.

gFSC and IPC Strengthening their Cooperation: IPC-gFSC Guidance on “Global

Standards for Collaboration at Country Level”

The global Food Security Cluster (gFSC) is active in supporting emergency coordination at national and sub-national level and IPC is one

of the main tools for the gFSC at country level to inform food security response plans. However, the collaboration between IPC and

gFSC has been very much ad-hoc, hence subject to a variety of factors and different individual understandings of the important links

existing between the IPC and gFSC activities in the country.

To strengthen their collaboration, the gFSC and the IPC Global Support Unit (IPC GSU) have jointly developed a guidance on “Global

standards for collaboration at country level”, which provides the gFSC and IPC TWGs members with recommendations, actions and

best practices for effective planning of IPC analysis and the use of its findings to inform

humanitarian plans and response.

This guidance note identifies 5 main crucial stages for which gFSC and the IPC TWGs

should enhance their collaboration in order to increase the use of IPC findings to inform

humanitarian response. These are:

Bi-annual planning of IPC and Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO)/ Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP)

Evidence retrieval and organization

IPC analysis planning and implementation

Review, dissemination and use of the results of IPC analyses

IPC capacity building and certification

Given the respective roles and complementarity of the global Food Security Cluster (gFSC) Initiative and IPC Global Partnership, the guidance also highlights actions and opportunities to improve the global level cooperation, especially at the strategic, technical and operational level.

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Global News and Quarter’s Features IPC Newsletter, Issue 8, June 2016

Towards a fully Harmonized IPC Classification System

Over the years, important lessons have been learnt from the application of the IPC Acute

Food Insecurity Classification. Various technical issues have also emerged from the

implementation of the IPC Chronic Food Insecurity Classification and from piloting the IPC

Acute Malnutrition prototype.

To consolidate learning and progress towards the harmonization of the three current set of

IPC tools and protocols, the IPC GSU, in agreement with the IPC Steering Committee (SC),

has reconstituted the IPC Chronic Working group into a IPC Food Security Working Group

(IPC FSWG).

The purpose of the IPC FSWG is to provide technical expertise and guidance for

complementarity of the IPC systems as well as harmonization of cross-cutting issues that

need to be aligned between the three IPC Classification systems. The IPC FSWG work will

focus on the following major outputs for the 2016: 1) Updates and revise the Version 2.0 of

the IPC Technical Manual 2) Harmonization Process for alignment and harmonization of

cross-cutting issues between the food security (acute and chronic) and nutrition scales.

For this purpose, the IPC FSWG will intensify the work with the IPC Nutrition Working

Group (NWG) to capture cross-cutting lessons learned to prepare and develop a

harmonized Integrated Food and Nutrition Security Phase Classification System by 2017.

The inclusive IPC Classification system will consolidate and articulate the three IPC

Classification systems (IPC Acute Food Insecurity, IPC Acute Malnutrition, and IPC Chronic

Food Insecurity) in order to provide countries with a comprehensive IPC framework to

analyze the most important types of food insecurity.

The IPC GSU will coordinate the overall harmonization process with strategic direction from

the IPC Steering Committee (SC) and technical guidance from IPC Technical Advisory Group

(TAG). The first Harmonization Meeting was held in December 2015 to discuss technical

and implementation issues identified as high priority by the IPC Steering Committee, the

IPC Chronic and IPC Nutrition Working Groups.

E-learning Course on IPC Version 2.0—Acute Food Insecurity Classification

The IPC GSU has launched the new e-learning course on IPC Version 2.0, this e-learning platform covers the four functions, related tools and procedures of IPC, which are specifically focused on acute food insecurity.

The course is designed to promote a better understanding of IPC version 2.0 core concepts, fundamentals and processes by all interested existing and potential IPC practitioners. It consists of 11 lessons, of approximately 15 to 150 minutes each, and it is based on the IPC technical Manual version 2.0 that was published in 2012. It is self-paced learning that uses a variety of learning methods to improve easy learning of each topic: storytelling, illustrative case studies, interactive self-assessment tests and practice exercises. The course also includes a glossary, background readings and relevant online resources.

The course has been produced in the framework of IPC Certification Programme which consists of three certification levels. The course is not a certification requirement but will help undertake the IPC Level 1 Test that is one of the key requirements in order to become certified IPC Analyst. To this purpose, a direct link to the IPC Level 1 Test is included in this course platform.

FAO, in its position as IPC Global Partner, has developed the full course and made it free on its e-learning centre as part of the "Improved Global Governance for Hunger Reduction Programme”, which is funded by the European Union (EU) and implemented by FAO.

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Global News and Quarter’s Features IPC Newsletter, Issue 8, June 2016

Quick UPDATES

IPC Global Steering Committee Endorses the NEW IPC Acute Malnutrition Classification Tools

A major milestone in the development of the new IPC Acute Malnutrition Scale was achieved on the 28 June 2016 when the IPC Global Steering Committee endorsed the Key Parameters, Tools & Procedures for the Scale. The endorsed materials are the result of 2-year IPC multi-partner development process involving pilots in eight countries and applied research. The manual and training materials are currently under development. Given the high demand for this new IPC classification tool; rolling-out is already planned to start in August for three countries (South Sudan, Sudan and Kenya).

IPC Quality Reviews

IPC GSU just completed the review of the key learnings from the first year of implementation of the IPC Quality Review initiative in 10 countries. The main focus in 2016 is streamlining and improving the quality review tools and reporting as well as the implementation approach to prioritize follow-up activities at country level. IPC training materials and guidance notes will also be improved based on the 2015 learning.

Updates from the Regions and Countries

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IPC Newsletter, Issue 8, June, 2016

IPC in East and Central Africa

Progress on the IPC-Chronic roll-out in the Region—Uganda and Kenya

The Uganda IPC TWG, including representatives

from the Government, just completed the IPC-

Chronic roll-out by releasing the Uganda IPC

Chronic Food Insecurity Situation Overview in

March 2016. The process started in early 2015

and involved introduction and planning activities

combined with technical meetings to determine

the kind of data and training required on the IPC

Information Support System (ISS) in order to

undertake the analysis. The analysis was

attended by 47 Food Security Practitioners: 29

from the District Local Governments

representing all regions of Uganda, and 18

members of the IPC Technical Working Group

representing relevant NGOs, UN Agencies and

Ministries that handle food security, water and

sanitation, health and nutrition related activities.

The final Uganda IPC Chronic Food Insecurity

Classification result was endorsed by the

Government and has been disseminated to the

various stakeholders in the country.

The roll-out the IPC-Chronic Classification has also

advanced in Kenya. In March 2016, the IPC GSU

conducted an IPC Chronic Food Insecurity Training

on Evidence Preparation to re-analyze and

organize data in preparation for the upcoming IPC

Chronic Analysis. The workshop was attended by

individuals from national institutions and UN

agencies that have been engaged in Kenya’s IPC

analysis, and was supported by the IPC Regional

Coordinator and two staffs from the IPC Global

Support Unit. This workshop is part of the step-

wise process to implement the IPC Chronic food

Insecurity Classification which already began in

Upcoming Events

DRC IPC Acute Level 1 Training and Analysis: 21-28 June 2016

Past Events

South Sudan IPC Acute Level 2 Training: 29 Feb -03 March 2016

DRC IPC Chronic Training and Analysis Workshop: 14 -24 March 2016

South Sudan IPC Acute Analy-sis & Acute Malnutrition Anal-ysis: 19 -22 April 2016

Burundi IPC Acute Level 2 Training: 25 -29 April 2016

Relevant Resources

Burundi Acute Food Insecurity

May-June 2016

Kenya Acute Food Insecurity-Feb-July 2016

Somalia Acute Food Insecurity

February 2016

Sudan Acute Food Insecurity Situation April -July 2016

Uganda IPC Chronic Food

Insecurity Situation 2015-2018/20

The IPC Team is happy to welcome Mr. Kamau

Wanjohi, the newly appointed IPC Regional

Coordinator for East and Central Africa. Kamau

officially took up his position in February 2016. He is

based in Kenya, hosted by the FAO Sub-Regional

Resilience Office for Eastern Africa (RTEA). He will

be working under the overall guidance of the IPC

Global Programme Manager and the direct

supervision of the RTEA Coordinator for Eastern

Africa, and in close coordination with IGAD, an IPC

Global Partner.

Kenya in 2014 and has been postponed to 2016 due

to the prioritization of IPC Acute and other activities

in response to El Nino.

Latest IPC Acute Food Insecurity Analysis released — Kenya, Somalia and Sudan

It is worth highlighting that, during the quarterly

period covered by the newsletter, three countries

have released IPC Acute Food Insecurity Analysis:

In February 2016, the Somalia Food Security

and Nutrition Analysis (FSNAU) released the

results of the IPC Acute food insecurity

Analysis conducted in January 2016. As

indicated in the report, the analysis focused

on vulnerable areas affected by 1) drought

and poor rainfall, 2) a combination of

protracted crisis and new (IDP) population,

and 3) trade disruption.

Similarly, in February 2016, the Kenya Food

Security Steering Group (KFSSG) released the

2015 Short Rains Assessment covering 23

counties classified as arid and semi-arid and

highly vulnerable to food insecurity. IPC was

employed in classifying severity levels of food

insecurity in different livelihood zones.

In Sudan, the National TWG conducted an IPC

Acute Analysis in March 2016, which was

done at the state level covering West and

East of Darfur and some other areas of Blue

Nile and South Kordofan states. The Analysis

was endorsed and released by the

Government in April 2016 and is valid until

July 2016.

Wanjohi Kamau – the New IPC Regional Coordinator - Welcome on Board!

Somalia, Projected Food Security Classification Feb – June 2016

Kenya, Food Security Classification Feb 2016

Updates from the Regions and Countries

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Timeline

Ongoing-Upcoming:

Madagascar IPC Acute Level 1 Training and Analysis: 25 July to 05 August 2016 (TBC)

Completed:

Mozambique IPC Acute refresher training and Anal-ysis: 09-13 May 2016

Lesotho IPC Acute refresher training and analysis: 23-29 May 2016

Swaziland IPC Acute Re-fresher training and Analy-sis: 30 May-03 June 2016

Malawi IPC Acute Refresher training and Analysis (TBC): 30 May-04 June 2016

Zimbabwe IPC Acute Analy-sis: 06-10 June 2016

IPC in Southern Africa

Unprecedented El Niño and weather-related

stress was triggered in Southern Africa in the

past two years, and with devastating effect

on the region’s food security. Thus, leading to

serious consequences that will persist until

around the next harvest in March 2017. The

current El Niño is forecasted to persist until

mid-2016, after which conditions are ex-

pected to return to neutral or La Niña in

Southern Africa before the end of the year.

Given the increasing food insecurity in the

region, in March 2016, the SADC RVAA

(Regional vulnerability assessment and analy-

sis), donors, partners and countries agreed to

undertake a round of IPC Acute food insecuri-

ty analyses between April and June 2016 in 5

countries that are at risk, namely Lesotho,

Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Swazi-

land. In this framework, the IPC GSU is

providing ongoing coordination, technical

and financial support to the IPC Regional

Technical Working Group (IPC RTWG), which

is a sub-working group of the SADC Regional

Vulnerability Assessment Committee (RVAC).

The IPC Southern African Regional Coordina-

tor is coordinating all technical support. In

addition, a core team of IPC GSU and Global

Partner experts, composed of IPC Technical

Development Officer, IPC Senior Food Securi-

ty Officer and IPC Quality and Compliance

Officer from WFP-HQs, was deployed to sup-

port the overall process of integrating IPC

into the country-level vulnerability assess-

ment and analysis (VAA), including data col-

lection and preparation, IPC training and

analysis, reporting and dissemination of the

results.

So far, the IPC Analyses are providing compa-

rable findings for understanding the severity

of the situation and acquiring population

numbers by IPC phase to be used to inform

the El Nino response.

On June 6th and 7th of June, the IPC analysis

results for Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique,

Swaziland were presented along with the

findings from the countries’ Vulnerability

Assessments and Analyses (VAA) at the Re-

gional SADC RVAC Dissemination Meeting.

On the 9th and 10th of June, a regional syn-

thesis presentation including VAA findings

and the number of food insecure people for

the 4 countries mentioned above was made

to decision makers. IPC Population figures

for Swaziland, Lesotho and Mozambique are

also expected to be used in Regional Appeal,

which is being finalized by SADC in collabora-

tion with FAO, OCHA and WFP.

With regard to other countries, National VAC

in Zimbabwe conducted the IPC Analysis and

is in the process of finalizing the results. Mad-

agascar and the Democratic Republic of Con-

go (DRC) are also planning IPC Acute analyses

in the coming months.

IPC Newsletter, Issue 8, June 2016

Salif Sow – the IPC Regional Advisor for West Africa - Welcome on Board!

The IPC Team is happy to welcome Mr.

Salif Sow, the newly appointed IPC

Regional Advisor for West Africa. Salif

will officially take up his position

starting from July 2016. He will be

based in Dakar, Senegal, at the FAO

Sub-Regional Emergency Office for

West Africa (FAO REOWA). He will be working under the overall

guidance of the IPC Global Programme Manager and the direct

supervision of the REOWA and in close partnership with CILSS.

Mr. Sow will bring on board a wealth of experience spanning

over 20 years’ in the areas of Early warning systems, Food securi-

ty and Nutrition both in International, Regional and Country lev-

els. Once fully operational, he will represent IPC as a member of

the CH Technical Committee and will actively participate and

strengthen the existing close collaboration between IPC and CH

by offering technical support, capacity building and rollout of CH

among the different partners in the Region.

IPC Support to CH in West Africa

IPC Support to El Nin o Response in Southern Africa

Mozambique, Food Security Classification June 2016

Upcoming Events

Pakistan IPC Chronic Training on

Evidence Preparation, 25–29 July 2016

Afghanistan IPC Acute Analysis

(TBC)

Bangladesh IPC Acute Analysis (TBC)

Past Events

Philippines 2nd round of IPC Chronic Training, 20 -24 January 2016

Philippines 2nd round of IIPC Chronic Analysis Workshop, 22 -26 Feb 2016

Pakistan IPC Chronic Awareness Raising Mission, 18 -22 April 2016

Sri Lanka IPC Awareness Raising

Mission, 2 -5 May 2016

Myanmar PC Awareness Raising Follow Up Mission, 20-24 June 2016.

Relevant Resources

Bangladesh IPC Chronic Food

Insecurity Situation November 2015-2018/20

Nepal IPC Chronic Food Insecuri-ty Situation December 2014-2017/19

Yemen Acute Food Insecurity Jun – Sept 2016

Updates from the Regions and Countries

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IPC in Asia and Near East

2nd round of IPC Chronic Food Insecurity Roll-out in Bangladesh and Philippines

Following the successful completion and re-

lease of the 1st round of IPC Chronic analysis

situation for November 2015, the Bangladesh

IPC Technical Working Group conducted a 2nd

round of IPC-Chronic analysis in December

2015 to expand coverage of the analysis to oth-

er vulnerable districts that were recently re-

ported in the Government’s Food Security Mon-

itoring report, namely: Sunamganj, Habiganj,

Netrokona, kishoreganj, Sylhet, Maulvibazar

(Haor), Rangamati, Bandarban, Khagrachhari

(CHT) and Cox’s Bazar. This activity also includ-

ed a refresher training for the country Technical

Working Group (TWG), which also introduced

the recent revisions made to the IPC Chronic

Food Insecurity Classification. 25 analysts par-

ticipated from 17 agencies in the analysis pro-

cess which was recently finalized. The findings

will be presented in an official launch event on

28 June 2016.

It is worth highlighting that, results of the 1st

round of IPC Chronic results have been used to

inform the country Investment Plans, NGOs

resource allocation and caseload estimation,

Humanitarian Implementation Plan (HIP) Ap-

peal to ECHO etc. The results were also men-

tioned in OCHA’s presentation to the World

Humanitarian Summit and presented at the

Bangladesh Development Trade Fair last year.

More recently, the EU delegation quoted the

IPC Chronic findings in a presentation to the

Ministry of Planning, in reference to their new

programme targeting highly chronic-food inse-

cure areas of Bangladesh.

Similarly, in Philippines, the release of the 1st

round of IPC-Chronic Analysis, which covered

18 provinces of Mindanao, prompted the Na-

tional Nutrition Council of the Government of

Philippines and the country TWG to conduct a

2nd round of Chronic Analysis in February

2016 covering 15 provinces chosen from the

provinces of the 1st round. The IPC GSU provid-

ed a refresher training in January 2016 and

intensive technical support, especially on re-

analyzing the evidence gathered from the pre-

vious IPC Chronic Analysis. A total of 50 ana-

lysts participated in the event. In addition, the

IPC GSU used it as an opportunity to invite five

members of the IPC Afghanistan TWG to par-

ticipate in this event under the Cross Country

Learning Exchange (CCLE). This was done in

order to better prepare the IPC Afghanistan

TWG for their own IPC Chronic analysis work-

shop that is coming up later in 2016.

As a follow up action-point from Bangladesh

and Philippines, the findings of the analysis

will be shared with the countries’ TWGs and

submitted to the IPC stakeholder agencies for

dissemination later in the year.

Boosting IPC Adoption and Synergies in Asia – Strategic missions in Cambodia, Philippines and Sri Lanka

From February to May 2016, the IPC Regional

Coordinator for Asia, Ms. Nusha Choudhury

undertook strategic missions to Cambodia

(March 2016), Philippines (February 2016) and

Sri Lanka (May 2016).

In Cambodia, representatives of the Govern-

ment of Cambodia, the donor community, and

UN country teams and heads of agencies were

reached out and briefed on the IPC potential

and use in the country. The stakeholders

agreed that the Council for Agriculture and

Rural Development (CARD) should host the IPC

Secretariat. The Cambodian Government also

expressed interest in having the IPC Chronic

Analysis as the primary upcoming activity and

a draft plan for the IPC Chronic Implementa-

tion was agreed upon.

In Philippines, Ms. Choudhury explored the

possible convergence between IPC and Early

Warning System on Food Nutrition and Nutri-

tion (EWS-FSN). One of the key findings is that

the IPC Acute analysis can utilize the data

gathered by EWS as a baseline. Similarly, the

IPC Chronic analysis can also benefit by utiliz-

ing the time-series data once they are generat-

ed at provincial level through the EWS-FSN .

Strategic meetings and consultations conduct-

ed in Sri Lanka allowed briefing Government

institutions, resource partners, UN agencies

and NGOs on the use and benefit of IPC; iden-

tifying the institutional set-up for the IPC TWG;

assessing the level of analysis and data avail-

ability situation.

IPC Newsletter, Issue 8, June 2016

2nd Round of IPC Chronic Training Philippines, January 2016

Updates from the Regions and Countries

IPC in Latin America and Caribbean

Highlights from the Region

The regional inter-governmental body of

Central America, Sistema de la Integración

Centroamericana (SICA), through Regional

Food Security and Nutrition Programme

for Central America (PRESANCA), is in the

process of finalizing the Regional Strategy

to implement IPC in the region, especially

in Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nica-

ragua and Haití.

The IPC Regional Strategic Plan for Central

America and the Caribbean will set the

priorities, objectives and coordination

mechanisms for the IPC activities in the

Region for the next three years. The plan

is part of and will be fully aligned with the

broader Global Strategic Programme

(2014-2018) outcomes.

The plan will be managed by the IPC Re-

gional Technical Working Group in the

framework of the “Programa de Sistemas

de Información para la Resiliencia en Se-

guridad Alimentaria y Nutricional de la

región del SICA” (PROGRESAN). The overall

objectives of the IPC Regional Strategic

Plan are twofold:

Strengthen monitoring and surveil-

lance systems of Food Security and

Nutrition through the application of

IPC; and

Improve mapping and vulnerability

analysis through the implementation

of IPC.

In addition to the IPC Regional Strategic

Plan, other key priorities are:

1) The implementation of the IPC Chron-

ic Food Insecurity Classification in

Haiti and El Salvador. The validation

of the IPC Chronic Food Insecurity

Analysis is on hold in both countries

due to the political election and the

drought emergency respectively.

2) The support to the implementation of

acute food insecurity analysis espe-

cially in El Salvador and Honduras ,

where the situation is critical due to

the drought emergency in the Dry

Corridor.

Upcoming Events

Haiti IPC Acute Level 1 Training:

01-08 July 2016

Haiti IPC Acute Analysis: 01-08 December 2016

Relevant Resources

Honduras Projected Acute Food

Insecurity Dec. 2015 – April 2016

IPC Newsletter, Issue 8, June 2016

About IPC

The Integrated Food Security Classi-

fication (IPC) is internationally rec-

ognized as a best practice in the

global food security field.

The IPC is a set of analytical tools

and protocols to analyze and classify

acute and chronic food insecurity

and nutrition linked to internation-

al standards. The IPC aims to inform

decision makers on how severe the

food insecurity situation is, who is

food insecure, where they are and

why they are food insecure. The IPC

protocols also create a forum involv-

ing Government, UN, NGOs and

civil society to conduct joint food

security analysis to reach technical

evidence based consensus on the

nature and severity of food insecuri-

ty in their country.

Currently, the IPC is applied in

around 20 countries in Africa, Asia,

and Central America and the Carib-

bean.

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This Issue’s Authors

The IPC GSU Editorial Team: Femi Aderohunmu and Rachele Santini. With the contribution of the IPC GSU Staff: Cindy Holleman, Douglas Jayasekaran, Feroz Ahmed, Jerry Arguello, Kaija Korpi, Kamau Wanjohi, Leila Oliveira, Methode Niyongendako, Nusha Choudhury, Quraishia Merzouk, Sophie Chotard, Saidamon Bodamaev.

The IPC has also benefited from the support of the governments of Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden.

The IPC development and implementation is made possible by the support of:

IPC GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP

Honduras Projected Food Security Classification Dec 2015 - April 2016