The IPC Manual provides a comprehensive guide for new and experienced IPC practitioners, including an overview of the IPC as an approach for decision-makers’ use, supplemented by the technical sections of interest to the IPC analyst.

The IPC Technical Manual v3.1 includes a complete range of classification scales: Acute Food Insecurity, Chronic Food Insecurity and Acute Malnutrition. Each scale informs specific types of action needed, thus providing decision-makers with valuable information for the strategic design of actions to address food insecurity and malnutrition. The scales have been fully harmonized, thus enabling all three scales to be applied more easily at the country level as protocols are shared across all scales.

In addition, the Manual includes the updated reference tables, including the newly added Food Insecurity Experience Scale. The IPC Technical Manual Version 3.1 also includes elaborated communication protocols. The manual includes also new protocols for Famine classification,  Classification of areas with limited or no humanitarian access to collect evidence and Evidence reliability assessments.

The IPC Technical Manual Version 3.1 is the result of a collaborative process between key agencies and stakeholders dealing with food insecurity and malnutrition. The IPC Partnership is a group of 15 organizations and intergovernmental institutions including: Action Against Hunger, CARE International, Comité Permanent Inter-États de Lutte Contre la Sécheresse au Sahel (CILSS), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Famine Early Warning Systems  Network (FEWS NET ), the Global Food Security Cluster, the Global Nutrition Cluster, Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (Oxfam), Southern African Development Community (SADC), Save the Children, Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana (SICA), World Food Programme (WFP) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).