IPC Acute Food Insecurity Reference Table for Household Groups |
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Phase 1: No Acute Food Insecurity |
Phase 2: Stressed |
Phase 3: Crisis |
Phase 4: Emergency |
Phase 5: Catastrophe |
Summary Description |
Household groups do not experience short term instability;
-OR-
Household groups experience short term instability but are able to meet basic food needs without atypical coping strategies |
Household group experiences short term instability;
-AND-
Household group food consumption is reduced but minimally adequate without having to engage in irreversible coping strategies |
Household group experiences short term instability;
-AND-
Household group has significant food consumption gaps with high or above usual acute malnutrition;
-OR-
Household group is marginally able to meet minimum food needs only with irreversible coping strategies such as liquidating livelihood assets or diverting expenses from essential nonfood items |
Household group experiences short term instability;
-AND-
Household group has extreme food consumption gaps resulting in very high acute malnutrition or excess mortality;
-OR-
Household group has extreme loss of livelihood assets that will likely lead to food consumption gaps |
Household group experiences short term instability;
-AND-
Household group has near complete lack of food and/or other basic needs where starvation, death, and destitution are evident |
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Phase 1: No Acute Food Insecurity |
Phase 2: Stressed |
Phase 3: Crisis |
Phase 4: Emergency |
Phase 5: Catastrophe |
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Contributing Factors |
Hazards & Vulnerability |
None or minimal effects of hazards and vulnerability causing short-term instability |
Effects of hazards and vulnerability causing short-term instability and stressing livelihoods and food consumption |
Effects of hazards and vulnerability causing short-term instability resulting in loss of assets and/or significant food consumption deficits |
Effects of hazards and vulnerability causing short-term instability resulting in large loss of livelihood assets and/ or food consumption deficits |
Effects of hazards and vulnerability causing short-term instability resulting in near complete collapse of livelihood assets and/or massive food consumption deficits |
Food Availability, Access, Utilization, Stability |
NDC |
Stressed, borderline adequate, and short-term unstable |
Inadequate and short-term unstable |
Extremely inadequate and short-term unstable |
Effectively no availability, access, and utilization; volatile |
Human Water Requirement from Improved Source |
NDC |
Water: >= 15 liters pppd, unstable |
Water: 7.5 to 15 liters pppd; unstable |
Water: 4 to 7.5 liters pppd, unstable |
Water: < 4 liters pppd, unstable |
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Phase 1: No Acute Food Insecurity |
Phase 2: Stressed |
Phase 3: Crisis |
Phase 4: Emergency |
Phase 5: Catastrophe |
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Household Outcomes |
Food Consumption (Quantity & Quality) |
NDC |
Quantity: Minimally adequate (2,100kcal pp/day) & unstable
Quality: Minimally adequate micro-nutrients & unstable
HDDS: Reduced and unstable dietary diversity but meeting most nutrient needs
FCS: Acceptable consumption
HHS: None or slight (scores 0-1)
CSI: = Reference, but unstable
HEA: Small or moderate Livelihood Protection Deficit |
Quantity: Significant gap -OR- 2,100 kcal pp/day via asset stripping
Quality: Significant lack of micro-nutrients -OR- adequate micronutrients pp/day via asset stripping
HDDS: Acute dietary diversity deficit limiting key micronutrients
FCS: Borderline consumption
HHS: Moderate (scores 2-3)
CSI: > Reference and increasing
HEA: Substantial Livelihood Protection Deficit -OR- Small Survival Deficit <20% |
Quantity: Extreme gap; much below 2,100kcal pp/day
Quality: Extreme lack of micro-nutrients
HDDS: Acute dietary diversity deficit limiting key micronutrients and macronutrients
FCS: Poor consumption
HHS: Severe (scores 4-6)
CSI: Significantly> reference
HEA: Survival Deficit |
Quantity & Quantity: Effectively complete gap
HDDS: Extreme dietary deficit of both micro and macronutrients
FCS: [Below] poor consumption
HHS: Severe (6)
CSI: Far> reference
HEA: Survival Deficit>20% |
Livelihood Change (Assets & Strategies) |
NDC |
Livelihood: Stressed
Coping Strategies: 'Insurance Strategies' |
Livelihood: Accelerated depletion
Coping Strategies: 'Crisis Strategies' |
Livelihood: Irreversible depletion
Coping Strategies: 'Distress Strategies' |
Livelihood: Near complete collapse
Coping Strategies: Effectively no ability to cope |
Nutrition (Due to Food Deficits) |
NDC |
Presence of mildly acutely malnourished child and/or mother |
Presence of moderately acutely malnourished child and/or mother |
Presence of severely acutely malnourished child and/or mother |
Presence of several severely acutely malnourished children and/or adolescents/adults |
Mortality |
NDC |
Unchanged |
Marginal increase; unstable |
Significant increase |
Death is evident in most households |
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Phase 1: No Acute Food Insecurity |
Phase 2: Stressed |
Phase 3: Crisis |
Phase 4: Emergency |
Phase 5: Catastrophe |
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Area Contextual Outcomes |
Nutrition (Due to Food Deficits) |
NDC |
Wasting Rate: 3-10%, unstable
BMI < 18.5 Rates: 10-20%, unstable |
Wasting Rate: 10-15% -OR- > usual & increasing; or oedema
BMI < 18.5 Rates: 20-40%, 1.5 x greater than reference |
Wasting Rate: 15-30% -OR- > usual & increasing; oedema
BMI < 18.5 Rates: > 40% |
Wasting Rate: > 30% -AND/OR- oedema
BMI < 18.5 Rates: far> 40% |
Death Rate |
NDC |
CDR: < 0.5/10,000/day, unstable
U5DR: <= 1/10,000/day, unstable |
CDR: 0.5-1/10,000/day, unstable
U5DR: 1-2/10,000/day, unstable |
CDR: 1-2/10,000/day -OR- > 2x reference
U5DR: 2-4/10,000/day |
CDR: > 2/10,000/day
U5DR: > 4/10,000/day |
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Phase 1: No Acute Food Insecurity |
Phase 2: Stressed |
Phase 3: Crisis |
Phase 4: Emergency |
Phase 5: Catastrophe |
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General Action Framework |
Cross-Cutting Objectives:
1) Mitigate immediate outcomes,
2) Support livelihoods, and
3) Address underlying causes |
Monitoring |
Disaster Risk Reduction
- Preparedness, prevention, and mitigation
- Reduce vulnerability and build resilience
- Complimentary sectoral support
- Close monitoring
- Advocacy
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Protect Livelihoods
- Livelihood support programmes and limited resource transfer to increase food availability, access, and/or utilization
- Complimentary sectoral support
- Close monitoring
- Advocacy
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Save Lives & Livelihoods
- Resource transfer and livelihood support programmes to increase food availability, access, and/or utilization
- Complimentary sectoral support
- Close monitoring
- Advocacy
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Prevent Total Collapse
- Critically urgent protection of human lives
- Comprehensive assistance with basic needs (e.g. food, water, shelter, sanitation, health, etc.)
- Immediate legal interventions and political-economic negotiations, as necessary
- Close monitoring
- Advocacy
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