Project profile — Support for the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) – FAO 2025 to 2028

April 2025 - Global food insecurity is rising at an increasing rate, exacerbated by conflict, climate change and rising inflation. Rigorous and reliable food security analysis is critical to ensuring humanitarian decision makers can use resources effectively. With GAC’s support, the Global Strategic Programme of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) initiative, hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), helps to provide the humanitarian sector with the best possible food security analysis upon which to base their decisions, to help ensure needs-based policy and programming. Governments, United Nations agencies, non-governmental organizations, and civil society and humanitarian sector actors use the IPC’s classification and analytical approach to collaboratively determine the severity and magnitude of country-specific acute and chronic food insecurity and acute malnutrition. These determinations are made according to internationally-recognized evidence-based standards and using a level of analysis not available from other sources. The analysis provided by the IPC helps ensure that humanitarian programming targets the most vulnerable. Project activities include: (1) strengthening the IPC partnership through elevated and expanded governance structures and expanded collaboration and ownership; (2) increasing IPC’s agility and innovation through the incorporation of advance technologies, and the design of new and improved processes; (3) continuing to serve as the global reference for expanded analysis of crisis though the development of deeper and more integrated analysis, and producing improved standards for forecasts; and (4) continuing to deliver high quality analysis and products through expanded expert capacity and the establishment of enhanced support system.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) expanded and strengthened IPC partnership; (2) incorporated agile and innovative processes into the IPC’s systems; (3) deepened IPC role as the global reference for expanded analysis of crises; and (4) enhanced IPC’s capacity to deliver high quality analysis and products. The expected ultimate outcome of Global Affairs Canada’s humanitarian assistance is to save lives, alleviate suffering and maintained human dignity in countries experiencing humanitarian crises or acute food insecurity.

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