High Food Price Impact Assessment and Analysis - WFP Remote ...

- Widening the focus on urban areas
- Assisting countries to adapt their agricultural policy, and agricultural investments policy.
European Commission
- The European executive has recently published a Communication on Soaring Food Prices, which is largely
converging with the UN Common Framework for Action. The Communication covers the short term
emergency responses (food aid and help for agricultural regions) and the medium term interventions
(boosting agricultural productivity and safety nets).
- Possible funding for development interventions is being discussed with the Development Directorate General
and partners.
- Joint Research Centre: Results of the Ethiopia cereal availability study will be presented at a workshop with
IFPRI in September. The model used, which is 15 years old, will also be adjusted.
Government of Mozambique
- The next round of the Food Security Monitoring System, done with WFP will take place in October. It
monitors 25 markets covering prices, transport costs, and products flows.
- A market survey is planned for October to expand beyond the 25 markets already monitored.
- A household survey (with income and expenditure indicators) will take place this year.
Government of Lesotho
- Monthly monitoring of vulnerability and prices takes place.
- Training on the IPC is taking place in August. Scenarios will be built in August.
- An urban vulnerability survey is planned, the tools are being developed.
- Community and Households Surveillance and nutritional surveillance systems are in place.
Save the Children (SC-UK)
- An urban assessment was recently conducted with WFP in Burkina Faso; it is likely that a voucher
programme will be implemented as a response to the situation.
- On the IPC, Save will help better link situation and response analysis.
- Scenario modelling is being done for the last 15 years though the Household Economy Approach.
- Save will build a hunger safety net with Care and Oxfam in Northern Kenya.
ACF
- A number of assessments are ongoing (Haiti, Liberia, Central African Rep, Chad, Nepal)
- ACF is developing guidance on urban assessments, which are now being tested in Burkina Faso.
FAO
- In the framework of the Initiative on Soaring Food prices, about 10 missions to identify a plan for response
are taking place.
- The IPC east Africa Group is using the IPC to analyse the impact of high food prices.
- FAO will make additional efforts to model the impact of high food prices.
- In Sudan, Somalia and Bangladesh, teams are conducting Impact assessments.
WFP
- WFP conducted or is conducting assessments (including through CFSVAs and FSMS) in about 20 countries.
Upcoming are primary data collection exercises in Madagascar, Cote d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Central African
Republic, Lesotho, Senegal, Haiti, Benin and Malawi. CFSVA, which will include HFP impact are planned in
Zambia, Burundi (urban), DRC (urban) and Swaziland (urban). WFP propose to implement
recommendations made on urban targeting.
- Urban assessment guidelines have been developed and will be further refined. The Technical Guidance Sheet
(TGS) on Urban Assessments is posted on WFP website at:
http://documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/ena/wfp185842.pdf
- Urban programming tools are being developed. WFP will share them.
- Existing monitoring systems will be strengthened to make them more price sensitive (Afghanistan, Niger,
Uganda, Opt, Sudan, Southern Africa, Nepal, Burundi, Liberia and Haiti).
- WFP will add future outlook in its analysis.
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