Dear All,
Indepth Research Services invites you to undertake a Food Security Analysis Course scheduled for 24th of June 2019 in Nairobi, Kenya.
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The course is also available in Kigali, Rwanda from 29-07-2019 to 02-08-2019 APPLY NOW
INTRODUCTION
Before intervening in a country, the first priority for development actors is to understand the food security situation of the population. Food security analysts do a wide range of assessments in order to identify hungry and food insecure populations and to establish the underlying causes. They include Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analyses-CFSVAs, Emergency assessments and market analyses-EFSA.
To collect, manage and analyze data, they use advanced technologies such as satellite imagery, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and mobile data collection platforms such as smart phones, tablets and Personal Digital Assistants.
Some actors for instance WFP, are working with partners to establish Food Security Monitoring Systems (FSMS) for continuous monitoring of food security conditions and market prices. This five days training will expose the participants to several concepts in carrying out food security analysis.
DURATION
5 days
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This course is intended for various actors National governments, UN partners and NGOs whose work informs the policies and programmes that WFP and its partners adopt in order to fight hunger in different circumstances. Employees in the Agriculture Extension (Agricultural extension officers, senior agricultural officials and policy makers) working with communities, funding agencies, Research organizations and non-government organizations among others for Food Security and livelihoods support activities and other Development programmes.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of the course, learners will be able to:
- Understand the concept of Food security Analysis, have a mastery of its basic concepts.
- Gain knowledge on application of various approaches to Food Security interventions
- Understand the various methods in Food Security analysis and tools and be able apply
- Conduct a community food security assessment; determine a community’s information needs and creating a community food security assessment team
- Have knowledge on policy issues in food security and how to analyze
- Use of GIS and remote sensing in food security analysis
- Monitoring and Evaluation in Food Security Programming
TOPICS TO BE COVERED
- An Introduction to the basic concepts of food security
- The causes of food insecurity and description on how to prepare and plan targeted food security interventions for the poorest sectors of a community.
- Food system resilience and indicators
- Preparation and planning of targeted interventions
- Types of food security assessment:
- Food Security Monitoring System (FSMS)Processes involved in analyzing food security situationsFood Security contributing and non-food security contributing factors
- Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis (CFSVA)
- Emergency Food Security Assessment (EFSA)
- Joint Assessment Missions (JAM)
- Crop and Food Supply Missions (CFSAM)
- Targeting of the poorest groups and various other target groups
- Approaches, methods and tools used by humanitarian agencies to measure livelihoods, food insecurity and vulnerability (Vulnerability Mapping for Food Security)
- Tools/instruments for analysis
- Part I: context of livelihood security, defining socio-economic systems, participatory group discussions and field visits
- Part II: transect walks and village profile documentation, interpretation of data: towards causes of food insecurity, short survey
- Community food security assessment tool kit
- Food policy analysis tools.
- Agricultural commodity market tools
- Agricultural input prices
- Food security indicator & policy analysis tool
- Use of GIS and remote sensing in food security analysis
- Reporting food security information using GIS
- Food security early warning systems and drought monitoring
- Population targeting with GIS and remote sensing
- Communicating food security situations with GIS and remote sensing
- Data Collection and analysis of food security
- Collecting food data from households
- Indicators of food security
- Calculating indicators
- Using indicators of food security
- Gender integration in food security programming
- Monitoring and evaluation in food security programming
REQUIREMENTS
Participants should be reasonably proficient in English. Applicants must live up to Indepth Research Services (IRES) admission criteria.
METHODOLOGY
The instructor led trainings are delivered using a blended learning approach and comprises of presentations, guided sessions of practical exercise, web-based tutorials and group work. Our facilitators are seasoned industry experts with years of experience, working as professional and trainers in these fields.
All facilitation and course materials will be offered in English. The participants should be reasonably proficient in English.
ACCREDITATION
Upon successful completion of this training, participants will be issued with an Indepth Research Services (IRES) certificate.
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