Evaluation of the Project “Voices of the Hungry”

One in eight people in the world (870 million) suffered from chronic undernourishment in 2010- 2012. Assessing the levels of hunger and food insecurity is essential for developing and monitoring policies aimed at addressing this issue. Because no single indicator can account for the many dimensions of food and nutrition security (FNS), efforts to measure FNS have progressively led to the development of a variety of different indicators. As the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ (FAO’s) new Strategic Framework was being introduced in 2013, work began on the “Voices of the Hungry” (VoH) project as an effort to develop a global FNS indicator that could be implemented by all member countries.