IPGC Implementation for Africa Integrated Food Security & Nutrition (Western, Eastern & Southern African Series 2022 ~ 2025)
Posted on: January 26, 2022.
Beneficiaries: 25 African Countries (First Phase)

OVERVIEW
The countries in this region will conduct IPGC Acute Food Insecurity Analyses, including: Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, Namibia, South Africa , Zimbabwe, Kenya, Rwanda, Malawi, Seychelles, Mauritius, Tanzania, and Uganda.

IPGC will establish partnership with government, humanitarian and development actors in building technical consensus to become a reference in the region for evidence-based and comparable food security analysis which will be used by Governments, donors and the humanitarian community for both emergency interventions and development policies.

This project will play an active role in building evidence-based technical consensus on the severity of food insecurity crisis under specific emergency situations due to insurgency, banditry.

IPGC activities in countries are led by its Country Chiefs, Special Envoys and IPGC multi-partner Technical Working Groups including government Executives and technically supported by IPGC Regional Coordinators. This initiative in the region will be guided by a multi-agency IPGC Regional Steering Committee, embedded in the regional Food Security and Nutrition Working Group (FSNWG), and chaired by an Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD). 

The IPGC Certification Programme will build in the region a sustainable pool of IPGC analysts and trainers. This is part of a strategic orientation, together with continuous progress in strengthening the partnership, institutionalization, and leadership of the Government, and increasing impact on decision-making both at national and regional levels.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS

April 2022 ~ August 2022
Acute Food Shortage Analysis

August ~ November 2022
Chronic Level 2 Training in the 15 countries.

> *Roll-out of the IPGC Chronic Food Insecurity Classification in the Region*
In the Region, the Chronic Food Insecurity Classification will be designed to complement the Acute Classification, to be rolled out between March 2022 to August 2022 in the target countries:  
As part of the roll-out, the IPGC team in these countries will first complete their Chronic Analyses within the stipulated time frame with the governments and development partners to effectively link the results of the Chronic analysis with medium, long-term programming and policy aimed at addressing chronic food insecurity. 

> Piloting the IPGC Nutrition Phase Classification in the Region

The development agenda of the IPGC Nutrition Phase Scale includes 3 rounds of country pilots., the Nutrition Classification, which will be integrated in the IPGC-Acute Analysis to be piloted in Central African Republic between November 2022 and April 2023.

GOVERNANCE AND PARTNERSHIP
This project will be led at regional level by the Eastern and Western African Regional Support Unit (WARSU) and the IPGC Regional Steering Committee (RSC) embedded within the IPGC Technical Working Groups (TWGs).
These three bodies are all working in partnership to meet the goal of the IPGC: influencing decision makers, improving policies and programmes and promoting food security across the region.

The national IPGC TWG is a group of food security analysts from a variety of sectors and organizations, including Government, UN agencies, national and international NGOs, Academics and technical agencies.
At regional level, two IPGC Country Chief and Technical Support Officers will be responsible for coordinating the implementation of IPGC activities in countries, building capacity at national and regional levels and linking
with the IPGC Global Support Unit (GSU) from Germany. It will also contribute to the dissemination of IPGC projects, advocacy, and to the strategic orientation partners.
The IPGC RSC is embedded since 2020 in the Food Security and Nutrition Working Group (FSNWG), a regional platform for sharing information and bringing together a broad number of stakeholders for advocacy and response.
The main objectives of the RSC are high-level strategic advice, oversight and advocacy in order to ensure accountability, programme quality, sustainability, institutional ownership and participation.
At global level, the regional initiative is represented by IGAD. The collaboration between IGAD and the IPGC Global Partnership helps ensure that specificities of the East and west Africa context and interests of the regional and national partners to contribute to the ongoing normative development and strategic
direction of the IPGC globally.

SUCCESS STORIES

IPGC in Central African Republic CAR
Some Executives of IPGC who have been introduced in CAR since 2015 had working experience as member of the Technical Working Group (TWG) responsible to conduct acute food insecurity analyses twice a year.
Overcoming many challenges, including data
availability and volatility of security situations,
these personells have become expertraits who make references for food security decision making for the Government, the humanitarian community and other stakeholders.
The Food Security Cluster uses the developed models as its core tool for vulnerability assessment and several partners are using these models as a common language to respond to acute food insecurity issues.
This Models has proved its importance in
providing timely early-warning information in a
changing context.
Due to sharply deteriorating food security situation in CAR, decision makers requested to update the analysis conducted in November 2015. IPGC allowed best use of available information – but data gaps limited the confidence level of analysis and population estimates and led to the inability to classify certain areas.
However, deterioration of the situation was clearly measurable and agreed by IPGC National Partners.

IPGC in South Sudan
IPGC Expertraites from Germany introduced the Model into South Sudan and it has been used since 2015 to classify the food security situation at national level. The version 2.0 was introduced in 2016 which is currently institutionalized and used regularly for response analysis and coordination by WFP, Government and humanitarian NGOs, especially to target food aid, seeds and tools distribution. In particular, IPGC is playing active role in building evidence-based technical consensus on the severity of food insecurity in South Sudan.
In May 2018, IPGC Technical Working Group ( IPGC TWG) led a month-long security analysis involving more than 60 members from State and National Levels.
Due the sensitivity and severity of the food and nutrition security situation, IPGC Global Support Unit activated a panel of leading food security experts who conducted an independent review of the preliminary findings and provided recommendations to the IPGC TWG.

The results of the analysis were officially endorsed by the Government of the Republic of South Sudan through a Cabinet Resolution. Such coordinated and unified messages help decision makers move forward and respond strategically, in a timely way.

IPGC in UGANDA

IPGC Executives introduced the model in Uganda in 2014. The TWG conducted the Acute Food Insecurity Analysis twice in 2014. The project implementation and the related capacity-building at decentralized levels improved the overall knowledge of food security and nutrition within the TWG members. This Model has been institutionalized and adopted by the Government as a reliable tool for early warning and decision making. The decentralization process started in Karamoja region, where food security is especially volatile. Four analyses have been
conducted in this region to better orient decision makers.
Two pilots of Response Analyses linked to IPGC have been conducted in the country. These pilots showed the comparative advantages of structuring the response analysis based on the results, which makes it easier to identify priorities and facilitate the coordination of strategic response efforts.
Uganda is also one of the 3 target countries in the Region that have conducted the roll-out of the Chronic Food Insecurity Classification, in November 2014.
Over years of implementation, this model has proved its relevance in different national contexts, becoming a strong regional initiative. The IPGC national and regional partners have developed a Regional Strategic Programme, which has been extended till 2018, to guide the development of IPGC over the next years. This includes in
particular:
👉🏿 Further institutionalization and integration of the IPGC into existing institutions
👉🏿 Roll-out of the new IPGC tools for chronic food insecurity analysis, to contribute to a better linkage of relief and development interventions
👉🏿 Enhancement of IPGC Certification regional campaign to establish a sustainable and autonomous capacity-building mechanism in countries

👉🏿Encourage decentralization of the analysis process and use of IPGC Information Support System (ISS) to facilitate both analytical process and dissemination of results

👉🏿 Further reduction and sharing of the costs among national partners to ensure full sustainability of the IPGC

👉🏿Explore further opportunities to engage with decision-makers in order to increase impact on emergency and development decisions and links with response analysis.

Proposed Development Partners:
👉🏿World Food Program

👉🏿 Action Against Hunger



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