The experience of the global network against food crises for strengthening resilience. This webinar is part of a series of webinars on resilience organized jointly with the EU’s Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development (DEVCO) and the FAO strategic programme on resilience within the framework of the EU-funded FAO INFORMED programme. Since 2014 the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission produced an annual report on food insecurity hotspots to allow informed based decisions on food crisis allocations at global level. In 2016, the European Union, proposed to the FAO and WFP to contribute to the JRC's annual report by providing food insecurity data and analysis. This joint process allowed the publication of a report. Following the successful experience of the 2016 analysis, the three organizations discussed the opportunity to move forward, involving additional partners, with the aim of producing, from early 2017, a consensus-based yearly report. EU, WFP and FAO are also promoting the "Global Network against Food Crises", a platform for consensus building on technical analysis and coordination of response.

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5. WEBINAR 30/11/2016
THE EXPERIENCE OF THE GLOBAL NETWORK
AGAINST FOOD CRISES FOR STRENGTHENING RESILIENCE
Bernard Rey
European Commission
Directorate Sustainable Growth and Development
Food and Nutrition Security Unit

6. Genesis of the (EU) assessment
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 Evidence-based political decision for food crises related
programming and fund allocation
 Need for a coherent and exhaustive (as much as possible)
picture of food crises at a given period;
 No automatic trigger response mechanism
 Move forward the resilience agenda (Resilience Communication of
Resilience, 2012)

7. Why a global analysis
 Global decisions for programming and fund allocation;
 Considering all shocks with an impact on FNS at the same time
 Climatic shocks, namely the El Niño impact
 Armed conflicts and political unrests
 Refugees in host countries
 Epidemics, like Ebola virus disease
 Socioeconomic vulnerability – chronic food insecurity
 Market failures
 Look at short and long-term trends
 Focus on root causes/ resilience building, bridging emergency and
development actions

8. Approach 2016
 Needs assessment in terms of food-insecure population
 Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) as a reference
for levels of food insecurity
 Data from a wide range of sources
 Joint analysis of the final data by EC, WFP and FAO
 The first report was published by the EU.

9. 2016 report limitations
 Static analysis (as in January 2016);
 No projection for the coming months;
 Limited geo coverage;
 Quality of data varies from country to country;
 Methods to estimate food insecurity prevalence not homogenous –
maximum effort made to reconcile data across countries but
discrepancies subsist;
 EU report isn't yet a public good;
 The report was "good enough", to be improved through the Global
Network

10. Opportunity for promoting a public
good
 A global analysis of food crises shared by stakeholders do not
exist yet
 The global assessment could be of interest for different
stakeholders for different uses
 Coherent with the WHS in Istanbul (invest in data analysis,
independent assessments, joint assessments…)
 Neutral analysis
 Further possible developments besides the analysis
 Joint response analysis
 Joint planning
 Joint implementation
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11. Added value of a Global Network
 Produces a consensus based shared needs analysis;
 Promotes shared response analysis;
 Enhance partnership, coordination and collaboration;
 Promote joint planning;
 Pave the way for joint implementation of response;
 Promotes political level coordination;
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12. Population affected by food crises – situation in January 2016

13. Population affected by food crises – situation in January 2016

14. Food-insecure population
(Millions)
< 1.0
1.0 - 5.0
5.0 - 10.0
> 10.0
Food-insecure population – situation in January 2016

15. Food-insecure population – situation in January 2016

16. How the EU used the results of the
Global Assessment in 2016
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Global response not only related to El Niño
Total EU contribution about €550 million
• Emergency and short-term response €302
million
• Development and long-term €245.5 million

17. Membership of the Global Assessment
• Network of Networks, based on existing analytical processes, no
duplication of analyses
• Confirmed participants
FAO, WFP, UNICEF, EU, FEWS-NET, CILSS, IGAD, SICA
• Institutions already contacted, which interest is to be confirmed
SADC, CEMAC, ASEAN, EU Member States
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18. Membership of the Global Network
?• To be discussed with partners of the global assessment;
• No concrete steps so far;
• doors opened.
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19. Recent relevant major events 1/2
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Date Event Outcome
March "Global analysis of food and nutrition
security situation in food crisis
hotspots" JRC-FAO-WFP report
The report 2016 is
published
April
Brussels
High Level Event "Moving forward:
from food crises to sustainable and
inclusive agriculture growth"
the joint effort EU,
FAO, WFP was
announced
May
Istanbul
WHS Side event "Walking the last
mile: a joint global analysis of food
crises to inform planning and
resource allocation decisions"
the Global Network
was announced by the
EU, FAO and WFP

20. Recent relevant major events 2/2
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Date Event Outcome
June
Rome
Side event during the Executive
Board Meeting of WFP
WFP Member States
are informed about the
Global Network
Sept
Rome
– 1st "Technical Consultation on
Global Network against Food Crises
and the Global Report"
The structure of the
global assessment is
discussed at technical
level
Nov
Rome
Committee on Food Security (CFS)
side event
CFS partners (MS, Civil
society, etc.) are
informed

21. On-going steps
To be a public good the Global Network requires:
 Technical improvement of the
assessment
• Enhancing report quality through technical
consultations
 Political impulse to the network
• Enlarging participation to the global analysis from
stakeholders at global level besides the EU, FAO and
WFP
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22. Overview of food crises
2017 Report country coverage

23. In-depth analysis of major food crises
2017 Report country coverage

24. Calendar coming events
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Date Event Outcome
Dec Draft of the report 2017 and shared
for comments
The technical
committee peer-review
the draft report
Febr
2016
Publication of the Report 2017 Consensus based
report is public
Febr -
on
Public events for report presentation,
coordination exercise
Global network political
component is active
and coordination
process move forward

25. Key messages from the EU
• Large involvement of stakeholders
• Calendar of the assessment
• Synergy and subsidiarity with existing analysis
• Global assessment (tech) vs global network (pol)
• Global AND local level coordination
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