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Date of event: Thursday, February 13, 2025

Where: Online

Description: 

The index is designed to capture the severity of the impact (no, mild, moderate, negative, very negative) on food security resulting from the loss of different types of assets (productive/non-productive, livestock, transport, social, natural, human) using survey data collected at household level in various developing countries. 

Its purpose is to advise on the severity of the acute food insecurity situation of the population in a given admin 2 zone, following the IPC reference table/protocols.

Societal impact:

This index will complement the existing outcome indicators of the IPC reference table in particular for the livelihood change primary outcome for which only one indicator is currently available i.e. WFP Livelihood Coping Strategy Index and hence provide more robust information to assess the food security situation of populations in more than 40 developing countries that are prone to food crises/high levels of acute food insecurity. 

In turn, this will enable the IPC to provide more robust analysis to guide the response to tackle acute food insecurity along the humanitarian-development-peace nexus. 

The JRC is since the beginning a key Member of the IPC partnership and D5/Food Security Unit is contributing to the technical development of the tool in the framework of an administrative agreement with DG INTPA. ECHO is one of the users of the results of the IPC acute food insecurity analyses for humanitarian aid programming.