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Interagency IPC Team meets for Initial Food Insecurity Analysis of 18 Provinces

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Details: Category: Featured Articles; Published: 11 February 2016

image2 IPC article The National Nutrition Council with support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations led the recent orientation-workshop on chronic food insecurity(CFI) analysis on 26-29 January 2016 in Tagaytay. Using the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Protocol, an interagency group of 34 food security analysts convened in Tagaytay City to initiate the food insecurity level classification of 18 provinces of the country. These provinces, namely: Abra, Apayao, and Benguet (CAR); Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur and Pangasinan (Region 1); Cagayan, Isabela and Nueva Vizcaya (Region 2); Quezon (Region 4A); Masbate (Region 5); Misamis Occidental and Misamis Oriental (Region 10); South Cotabato and Sultan Kudarat (Region 12); Agusan del Sur (CARAGA); and Basilan and Tawi-Tawi (ARMM) are among the 30 priority provinces identified by the government in the Philippine Development Plan. The list excludes PDP provinces in Visayas affected by typhoon Yolanda. This is to discount the effect of the super typhoon on livelihood, food security and nutrition whose impacts are analyzed during acute food insecurity analysis.

The orientation-workshop, funded by NNC provided the participants information on the updated IPC (IPC)-CFI Indicators Reference Table and the latest version of the Information Support System (ISS). The workshop groups also completed 3 of the 6 steps in IPC-CFI analysis namely: step 1: Context analysis, step 2: Evidence repository and step 3: Identification of Non-Exceptional Circumstances. The same participants are expected to reconvene in February to complete the 3 remaining steps: 1) evidence documentation and analysis, 2) classification of severity and identification of limiting and underlying factors, and 3) classification conclusion.

The interagency IPC analysts are composed of representatives from the Department of Agriculture (DA); Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAG-ASA) and Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI) of the Department of Science and Technology; Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA); Office of Civil Defense of the Department of National Defense (DND); National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA); Institute of Human Nutrition and Food and Interdisciplinary Studies Center on Food Security of the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB-ISCFS); Action Against Hunger (ACF); World Vision Development Foundation, Inc. (WVDFI); World Food Programme (WFP) and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); and the National Nutrition Council of the Department of Health (NNC-DOH). Ms. Nusha Choudhury, IPC Regional Coordinator for Asia served as resource person with technical and secretariat support from NNC and FAO.

By April 2016, it is expected that 36 provinces of the country would have food insecutiry profiles that are objective and evidence-based to help decision-makers and program managers better identify strategic interventions to address chronic food insecurity in the priority provinces of the country.