Food Security Analysis Service

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Food Security Analysis Service
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WFP Programming challenge

• Locating the hungry and neediest
• Who are the most hungry and at risk populations?
• where do they live?
• How many they are?
• why they are hungry/ what are risk factors?
• What are appropriate responses?
• Ensuring their effective and timely integration
  into WFP's programming.

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WFP Disaster Preparedness and Response Framework

• Pre-disaster phase
• Identification of vulnerable populations and
  disaster risks risk assessment
• Monitoring phase
• Early warning and contingency planning
• Emergency assessment phase
• Identification of populations that require
  assistance
• Operational phase
• Timely delivery of appropriate assistance
• Post-disaster phase
• Evaluation of impacts of the response and
  recovery projects

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Humanitarian response mechanism
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Decreased food production
Vicious Circle


Hunger short-term planning
Environmental degradation
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Increased food production improved markets
Virtuous Circle
Healthy communities, partnerships long-term
planning
Sustainable agricultural projects
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Food Security Analysis Service Core Activities
CFSVA
FSMS
EFSA
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Analytical Assessment Time Line for Emergency
Preparedness Response
1. Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability
Analysis (CFSVA) -Environmental -Agro-pastoral -C
limatic -Socioeconomic -Demographic
-Infrastructure -Identification of
Indicators -Understanding food security -Vulnerabl
e Population and Areas
5.Operational Planning Emergency Response for
WFP Activities in targeted areas
Early warning
Shock event
4. Emergency Food Security Assessment (EFSA)
3. Contingency Planning
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Objectives of Comprehensive Food Security Analysis

• Provides in-depth analysis of household food
  security dynamics
• Who? Where? How many? Why? What could happen?
  What can be done?
• Socio-economic situation
• Livelihoods
• Markets and food security
• Levels of food insecurity
• Nutrition status
• Risk and copping strategies
• Provides information for WFP, Governments and
  partners to support timely intervention and
  monitoring

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Risk Analysis
1. Identification of Hazard in the country
2. Geographical Extent of the Hazard in the
country
3. Temporal Extent of the Hazard in the country.
4. Historical Impact of the Hazard in the
country.
Vulnerability Analysis
7. Whats the likely impact of a given
(multiple) hazard in the country
Hazard Analysis
5. Who is potentially impacted in the areas at
risk of a given hazard
-how would households livelihoods be
affected -how can they cope with the situation?
6. Vulnerability of the population
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Partnerships and funding for CFSVA

• Gates is now providing funding for 16 countries
  in Africa (a six year project)
• Partnership with WHO to develop a common
  framework for risk analysis
• The Rome based agencies (FAO, WFP and IFAD)
  being developed. CFSVA will form a common ground
• Partnership being discussed with IRI on how to
  integrate climate in the analysis
• Looking on how to contribute to the NAPAs

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FSMS (Food Security Monitoring Systems)

• Objectives
• Identify and monitor potential threats and risks
  to household food security (availability, access,
  utilization)
• Provide timely information to decision makers to
  initiate assessments, and influence policy and
  strategies related to food security interventions

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EFSA (Emergency Food Security Assessment)

• Objectives
• To know whether there is a food security or
  nutrition problem among affected population
  requiring an intervention to save lives and/or
  livelihoods
• Whether food aid has a role to play and a
  comparative advantage to address the risks to
  lives and/or livelihoods to identify the type of
  interventions, if required, needed by whom, how
  much and when
• To know whether international assistance is needed

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Integrated Food Security Information Management
tool at a country level
Food Security Knowledge base
Primary data collection PDA/GPS
Regularly collected field data
Risk Analysis
Risk Monitoring
Secondary data analysis Global data sets
Spatial data satellite and models
Early Warning
Food Security Atlas
Data and Information Sharing
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The challenges

• Institutional challenges lack of coordinated
  response
• Compartmentalization of responses development
  vs emergency
• Lack of comprehensive national policies and
  response mechanisms
• Limited use of available scientific knowledge
• Increased vulnerability of the poor due to
  climate change and soaring food prices
  increased emergencies

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New analytical challenges

• Increased vulnerability due to the spread of
  diseases such as malaria including to new areas
• Increased urban food emergencies as a result of
  increased food commodity prices
• Increased emergencies in coastal areas to sea
  rise and storms
• Reduced access to markets and services due to
  damage to infrastructure due to floods and storms

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Need for Partnerships

• Will address some of the institutional and
  technical challenges by
• Developing a common risk management framework and
  response strategy improve timeliness of
  responses
• Combining resources to address critical issues
  based on comparative advantage of each
  institution increase funding for development
• Making effective use of latest advances in
  technology and Information Management
• Jointly designing and implementing innovative
  risk management systems Livelihood Protection
  Systems, Weather Insurance etc

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Thank you
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Laos

• Food security situation
• (Sept 2006)

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Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis

• Food security
• all people, all times, have access to
  sufficient .food.. to meet their needs. (WFS -
  FAO 1996)
• Proxy indicator Food Consumption
• Based on 7 day recall of diet diversity of
  household
• Number of foods eaten in 7 days

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Food Security Analysis

• Households have different multiple, livelihoods
  strategies to secure income and food

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Food Security Analysis- Wealth indicators

• Households have reserves, wealth, coping
  mechanisms, networks
• Proxy the asset wealth index

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Zambia Poverty, HIV, Education and Malnutrition
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Food security trends in different regions

• Disaggregation of the proportion of households
  with poor food consumption (FCS21), alerted for
  the severe food insecurity situation in the
  Northern Plateau Highlands in (2006) and (2007)

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