From Global Perspectives to
Country Implementation
IPC Global Partners:
With the support of:

 A set of protocols to classify the severity and causes of food insecurity and provide actionable knowledge by consolidating wide-ranging evidence
 A process for building technical consensus among key stakeholders
IPC is not:
 A methodology to measure food insecurity – IPC brings together different methodologies
 A tool for data collection – but it can inform data collection and identify gaps
 An information system – but an input to the system
 Response analysis – but it is the starting point and can inform response analysis

ACUTE FOOD
INSECURITY
All food insecurity found at a specific point in time of a severity that threatens lives and/or livelihoods regardless of the causes, context or duration.
CHRONIC FOOD
INSECURITY
Persistent food insecurity due to structural causes.
To inform short term strategic objectives
(food/cash aid, asset redistribution, basic needs support, saving lives etc.)
To inform medium and long term strategic objectives (structural development, agricultural and rural development policies, strengthen livelihood strategies and adaptive capacity, etc.)

1. How severe is the food security situation?
2. Where are the areas that are food insecure?
3. How many people are food insecure?
4. Who are the food insecure?
5. When will people be food insecure?
6. Why are people food insecure?
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Situation
Analysis
(current/projected)
Response
Analysis
Monitoring
Evaluation
Response
Planning
Response
Implementation

IPC Acute and
Chronic Situation
Analysis

 Why? Decision Makers have new information needs
• Need information to inform resilience and programming to break the cycle of food insecurity
• Need both information to inform Short-Term
Emergency Programming that is linked to Medium to
Longer Programming & Policy
• Need evidence and information to inform integrated food and nutrition security programming
• Multi-Sector and multi-dimensional response is needed to meet the challenges of food insecurity
• Focus on both Acute and Chronic Food Insecurity, including four dimensions of food insecurity
( availability, access, utilization, stability )

Decision maker’s at the global, regional and national level use the IPC for decision making and this is providing the evidence and standards for better decisions that improve emergency and development policy and programming
1. Institutionalization of IPC within Global, Regional and National structures, frameworks and strategiess.
2. Professionalized IPC food security analysis training & capacity.
3. High quality IPC Acute and Chronic Food Insecurity products.
4. Improved access to IPC analysis for use in emergency and development policy and programming.
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• 40 Countries engaged in IPC
Activities: in Africa, Asia, Latin
America and Near East
• 20 countries leading IPC analysis in Africa, Asia and Near East
• Support to CH in 16 Countries in
West Africa
• More than 1,600 people trained in
IPC since 2012 (32% women)

IPC Engages Partners as Stakeholders & Decision Makers at the Global, Regional and Country Level
• Global Partners: Strategic Direction, Support Implement & Use IPC
IPC Global Steering Committee Partners:
• Country Level Partners Own, Implement & Use IPC
Example: Philippines Country IPC Partners:
• Leading Technical Agencies & Experts guide IPC tool development
New partners in technical development:
• Resource Partners: Strategic Direction, Guide Implementation & Use IPC rent Resource Partners:
Benefited from Other Partner Support:

• IPC Global Steering Committee (IPC GSC) with 12 members
• IPC Global Technical Advisory Board (IPC TAG)
– With Global Technical Working Groups (Food Security & Nutrition)
• IPC Global Support Unit (IPC GSU)
 Reports to IPC GSC and Supports Implementation of IPC Globally
 Linked to Regional and National levels through the IPC Regional
Coordinators seconded in each region
• IPC Regional Steering Committee’s /IPC Regional Technical Working
Groups supported by IPC Regional Coordinators
• IPC Country Steering Committee’s/ IPCCountry Technical Working
Groups Linked and Supported by IPC Regional Working Groups and
IPC Regional Coordinators

IPC Global Emergency Review
Committee
IPC Technical Advisory
Group (TAG)
(ACF, CARE, CILSS, FAO, FEWS NET,
EC-JRC, Oxfam, Save the Children,
SICA-PRESANCA, USAID-FANTA and
WFP)
IPC Chronic Working Group
(FAO, FEWS NET, EC-JRC, CARE, Oxfam, Save the Children, SICA-PRESANCA, USAID-FANTA,
WFP and the World Bank)
IPC Nutrition Working Group
(CDC, CILSS, EC-JRC, FAO, FEWS NET, FSNAU,
Global Nutrition Cluster, Institute of Child
Health/University of London, Save the
Children, SICA-INCAP, SICA-PRESANCA,
Standing Committee on Nutrition (WHO),
Unicef, USAID- FANTA, WHO, WFP and the
World Bank)
Technical Advisors
(EC-JRC)
Senior Nutrition
Advisor
(UNICEF)
Senior
Impact/Evaluation
Advisor
(TANGO Inter.)
IPC Global Steering Committee
ACF, CARE, CILSS, FAO, FEWS NET, FSC, EC-JRC, Oxfam, Save the Children, SICA, and WFP
IPC Global Programme Manager
IPC Global Support Unit (GSU)
IPC Food Security
Officers
IPC Regional
Coordinator
ASIA
IPC Regional and Country
Network
Regional IPC Steering
Committee
IPC Quality and
Compliance Officer
(WFP)
IPC Country
Support Officer
IPC Nutrition
Officer
IPC Impact
Evaluation
Officer
EAST AND CENTRAL AFRICA
IPC Regional
Coordinator
FSNWG IPC Steering
Committee
LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN
IPC Regional
IPC Regional
Technical Working
Coordinator
Group
SADC IPC
SOUTHERN AFRICA
Regional
SADC RVAC IPC
Working Group
Coordinator
IPC-CH Regional
Advisor
WEST AFRICA
CILSS CH Technical
Committee
COUNTRY
IPC Steering
Committee’s/
TECHNICAL
WORKING
GROUPS
(TWG)
ISS Development
Officer
NORTH AFRICA, NEAR EAST and OTHER
COUNTRIES
Emerging IPC countries and interest
Operations & Communications
Operations Officer Communication Officer
Admin. Assistants Communication
Assistant
Direct Supervision
Partner Collaboration
Technical Support
Updated September 2014

1. At country level, IPC aims at being used in decision making processes and thus informing the formulation of FSN-related policies and strategies;
2. Various and relevant stakeholders are engaged in all
IPC activities and processes – institutionalization; technical development; implementation of analysis; use of IPC findings .
3. IPC analysis are planned and conducted to support the gov’t and stakeholder policies/strategies formulation;
4. IPC is demand driven by Countries; IPC aims to be government owned and led multi-partner processes .
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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.
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IPC use in FSN Policy and
Programming
- 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

IPC use in FSN Policy and
Programming
- 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)

IPC use in FSN Policy and
Programming
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

1. Support IPC technical development multiexperts/stakeholders discussions
2. Support Lesson Leaning exercises on IPC implementation and/or specific processes
3. Help with the regional/country dissemination of the IPC analysis and thus the use of the IPC findings to inform FSN policy and programming.
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