Workshop summary: Integrated food security and humanitarian phase classification and associated tools

 Food Security Analysis Unit (Somalia) case-study – situation and response analysis. The key problem here is that situations of chronic food security are often not adequately addressed and become acute in nature. Humanitarian response to acute food security often comes in the form of food aid and this is only a palliative, short term solution. The challenge therefore is to link complex food security analysis to appropriate action, and to monitoring and evaluation of outcomes in order to improve learning and accountability. FSAU/FAO will present a new model and tools and their experiences and lessons learned from Somalia. One of the points for discussion will be: can models like this be resourced and replicated usefully in the many food-insecure environments around the world?