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A Response Analysis Framework - Discussion Papers

Developing a Response Analysis Framework for Food Security Emergencies

Year of publication 2011

Author Emergency Rehabilitation Division

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The proposal to develop a Response Analysis Framework for food security in emergencies was grounded in the understanding that whilst situation analysis of food security has improved in recent years (through initiatives such as World Food Programmeâ¿¿s (WFP) Strengthening Emergency Needs Assessment Capacity (SENAC) project and the Integrated Phase Classification (IPC)), this has not been systematically translated into more appropriate and justified responses to food security problems. G lobally, a number of reviews have recognised the gap that exists in the link between food security situation and forecast analysis and programming. Response analysis was a focus of The Re-thinking Food Security Forum (Rome April 2008) which brought together INGOs, WFP and FAO. The Forum highlighted the need for response analysis processes to be inclusive, and for interventions to be informed by a full review of options. In 2009, consultations held at DG ECHO on Capacity Building Policy and the Future of Thematic Funding confirmed that information systems such as IPC, SENAC, Humanitarian Health and Nutrition Tracking Service (HNTS) and market analysis, do â¿¿not yet include improved response analysis for programming supportâ¿¿1 ECHO observed that â¿¿There is an inadequate link between food security analysis and response...â¿¿. It was as in reaction to this that Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) developed a project designed to try and add ress this link. The result was an 18-month ECHO funded project entitled â¿¿Developing a Response Analysis Framework for Food Security Emergenciesâ¿¿. This collection of discussion papers is one of the products of that project. For a full list of products produced by the project, readers are encouraged to visit the FAO and Emergencies website http://www.fao.org/emergencies and scroll down the right-hand column to Response Analysis, where copies of all documents and products can be downl oaded.

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