Who are we?
The Afghanistan Food Security Technical Team (AFSTT) was founded in Dec 2011 as part of an ECHO funded and FAO led action (Aug11-Dec12) that seeks “to promote increased efficiency and effectiveness of all emergency food security programming in Afghanistan through more proportionate, needs based, appropriate and timely response” with three main results, including the introduction of the IPC Version 2.0 in Afghanistan and the strengthening of technical Food Security Situation Analysis capacity using a standardized approach.
The Food Security and Agriculture Cluster (FSAC) is considered the incubation home of the IPC for the first year of implementation, with the understanding that Government is the ultimate custodian of the IPC.
The AFSTT is composed of representatives from the Government of Afghanistan Ministries/Departments, UN Agencies, Non-Governmental Organizations, National Technical Agencies and Academia. The team is responsible for providing oversight and technical guidance to the process of the IPC Roll-Out in Afghanistan. In particular, the team is in charge of ensuring the production of national IPC maps; the training of technical experts to lead national analyses and communicate the results; the use of national IPC products by key stakeholders, counting government; and the increased awareness of stakeholders to collect data more consistently and produce more quality Food Security analyses.
What have we achieved
so far?
Following awareness raising activities in 2011 and the
establishment of AFSTT, a work plan was developed to roll out the IPC. Ever
since, several meetings and workshops involving key stakeholders, including
donors have occurred.
Major workshops held include: Various Food Security
Foundation training workshops,One IPC Protocols Training, Two National IPC
Analysis Workshops, and One Lessons Learning Workshop at which Best Practices
were identified and documented to improve country level implementation of IPC
activities.
Way forward
- Organize more Technical training workshops to strengthen capacity in
food security analysis.
- Update the IPC map to reflect the projected situation
through the end of the winter.
- Collaborate with Government in the organization of a High
Level Stakeholder Meeting in order to develop strategies for, and set the
foundation to the upcoming consolidation of IPC in Afghanistan, and to
increase national ownership.
- Encourage the use of the IPC as a support tool for
decision-making through the dissemination of IPC products to Government, NGOs and humanitarian organizations.
- Build more IPC awareness and highlight its usefulness in
targeting and response analysis.
