Integrated Food Security
Phase Classification (IPC)
What is IPC and What is its Added Value?
IPC
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
Why is IPC needed?
IPC
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
Common Challenges For Food Security Analysis
•
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
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The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
WHAT WE NEED ?
• 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
IPC
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
What is IPC?
IPC
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
WHAT THE IPC IS…..
 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.
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The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
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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The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
What are the key elements of IPC?
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The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
1. Building
Consensus
Technical
Working Group
Matrix
2. Classifying Severity & Factors
Analytical
Framework
Reference
Tables
Understanding
evidence with an
integrated
Analytical
Framework
Referencing
evidence
against
international
standards
3. Communication 4. Quality
Assurance
for Action
Analysis
Worksheets
Communication
Template
Selfassessment
and peer
review
Procedures for:
Tools
Functions
IPC FOUR CORE FUNCTIONS
Multi-agency
stakeholders
carry out
collaborative
analysis
Transparently
methodically and
consensually
analyzing
evidence
Transform
analyses
into concise
information
for action
Assuring
quality /
reliability
of
analysis
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The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
What is the added
value of IPC?
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The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
IPC added value
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
Clear Communication and Comparability over space
East and Central
Africa – IPC
Regional Map,
May 2014
Comparability over time
Example: South Sudan
January – March 2013
March – June 2013
January – March 2014
Seasonal
deterioration
Expanded
Conflict
Conflict
Conflict
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Analysis of Both Acute and Chronic
Food Insecurity
Chronic
Food Insecurity (2013)
(IPC Chronic Food
Insecurity Pilot, 2013)
Acute
Food Insecurity
IPC (Acute Food Security
Analysis Feb 2013)
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The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
Projected Implementation Map 2014-2016
Consolidation Stage
Introduction Stage
Potential Areas for
IPC Application
IPC is institutionalized; technical
capacity is built; and IPC products
are of high quality and used by
decision makers
IPC institutionalization is ongoing;
technical-capacity is being built,
and, and IPC products are
disseminated.
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 (20142016), 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,
Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Conakry, Ivory Coast, Mali,
Mauritania, Niger, Togo and Senegal.
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The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
Who is using IPC Information and What for?
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.
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The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
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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The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
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-forWork 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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