What the IPC is

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is an innovative multi-stakeholder initiative to improve analysis and decision-making on food security and nutrition. Using the IPC classification and analytical approach, governments, UN agencies, NGOs, and other stakeholders work together to determine the severity and extent of acute and chronic food insecurity and acute malnutrition situations within countries, according to internationally recognised standards.

In short, the IPC is:

• a process to build evidence-based technical consensus among  key stakeholders
• an approach to consolidate wide-ranging evidence to classify the severity and magnitude and to identify the key drivers of food insecurity and malnutrition
• a path to provide actionable knowledge for strategic decisionmaking
• a platform to ensure a rigorous, neutral analysis.