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FSTS Training on Food Security

Integrated Phase Classification (IPC)

25 – 27 October 2010

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Food Insecurity – Multi-sectoral Dimension

Successful strategies to eliminate food insecurity combines these diverse sectors

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• One possible mechanism for generating an integrated food security analysis:

o To establish independent structures dedicated to gathering and analyzing a wide range of food security data??

• Two major disadvantages of independent structures:

o They tend to be very costly to operateo They are often completely independent of national

structureo Not Sustainable – heavy loaded institutional setup

creates dependency…

Formation of Food Security Working Group

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Solution is Interdependent Coordination Group?

• Because of complex livelihood crises - requiring a range of strategies and responses that cut across mandates and institutions

• Minimizes inadequate knowledge and helps to understand interlocking vulnerabilities and encourages multi-sectoral responses

• Strengthens the capacity of the government by ensuring timely and accurate warning to initiate early and appropriate responses

Light weighted office structure- advantages of networking

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Advantages …o Ensures continuous early warning information exchange

between the EWS and different agencies

o Increase consensus between donors, humanitarian agencies and the Government on emergency needs and how to address them

o Aavoids duplication of data collection by decreasing establishment of parallel system – helps to keep costs at a minimum

o Increase participation in and use of the results of the government-led working groups by other partners

o Helps to develop an appropriate quantitative and standard methodology – creates the necessary platform for policy related discussions

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Advantages …• Increases credibility when preceded by a

consensus based planning process

• Ensures a demand for routine data exchange network to facilitate a smooth information exchange

• Improves connectivity between federal line ministries and states/localities

• Helps to follow up on response, analyze gaps and update and circulate information to decision makers as required

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Linkages b/n National & Sub-national FSIS • FSIS is increasingly needed to support decision

making at the local level.– By building the capacity of the decentralized FSIS

• Appropriate institutional relationships between national and sub-national information system activities– Mostly it is vertically integrated with data collected at

lower administrative levels

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Sub-sectors and Focal Points

• Possible sectoral sub-working groups and their possible chairs:– Agriculture and Livestock – possible chair- MoAF, MoARF and/or FAO

– Water and Environmental Sanitation – possible chair MoWR, and/or UNICEF

– Health and Nutrition – possible chair MoH and/or UNICEF

– Food and Consumption – possible chair HAC, MoT, MoAF, SMA, MoFNE and/or WFP

– Education and other demographic issues – possible chair - Ministry of Education, CBS, MoIC, MoSW and/or NPC

• Sectoral working group chairs of the government will serve as focal points for food security/livelihood working group

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Potential membership

• Membership should be open to all government and non-government agencies and organizations directly working on FS

• Government line ministry members may include MoAF, CBS, SMSO, Mapping Authority, HAC, MoFNE, NIC, MoH, MoWR, etc.

• Core members outside the government may include: UN/OCHA and/or RCO, WFP, UNICEF, FAO,USAID, EC, etc.

• NGOs: CARE, SC-UK, SC-USA, CRS, OXFAM, World Vision, ERCS, AOAD, FHI, Goal, etc.

• Similar structures are recommended for Federal and State levels

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Major Activities of the working groups• The activities of the Food Security and/or livelihood

Working Group can be defined via annual work-planning process.

• Review of the Sudan food security monitoring system with the aim of developing a single standardized approach

• Ensure coordination and coherence between the various information systems of the Government

• Review, advise and develop a standing system of sectoral and cross-sectoral coordination at federal and state levels.

• Providing technical advice and guidance on food security and drought mgt to the Government, donors and partners.

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Sustainability

• The leadership of the government should be ensured and well articulated

• Without Government leadership, other agencies would continue to lead sectors to their own objectives.

• This is now functioning in uncoordinated manner and has the potential to result in more debate and less consensus

• Best example – Case of Kadugli – DG chairing FSLCG

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Possible Constraints

• Lack of sustained commitment and resource and capacity (human and financial resources)– Hence strong support required, at least at its initial

stages

• Institutional agenda may sometimes set in

• Frequency of lengthy meetings may increase

• Network partners may not always conform to deadlines

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Thank You