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, and have a mastery of its basic concepts.
• Gain knowledge on the application of various approaches to Food Security interventions
• Understand the various methods in Food Security analysis and tools and be able to apply
• Conduct a community food security assessment; determine a community’s information needs and create a community food security assessment team
• Have knowledge of 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 of 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: the 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

General Notes

·         All our courses can be Tailor-made to participants' needs

·         The participant must be conversant in English

·         Presentations are well-guided, practical exercises, web-based tutorials, and group work. Our facilitators are experts with more than 10 years of experience.

·         Upon completion of training the participant will be issued with a Foscore development center certificate (FDC-K)

·         Training will be done at the Foscore development center (FDC-K) centers. We also offer inhouse and online training on the client schedule

·         Course duration is flexible and the contents can be modified to fit any number of days.

·         The course fee for onsite training includes facilitation training materials, 2 coffee breaks, a buffet lunch, and a Certificate of successful completion of Training. Participants will be responsible for their own travel expenses and arrangements, airport transfers, visa application dinners, health/accident insurance, and other personal expenses.

·         Accommodation, pickup, freight booking, and Visa processing arrangement, are done on request, at discounted prices.

·         Tablet and Laptops are provided to participants on request as an add-on cost to the training fee.

·         One-year free Consultation and Coaching provided after the course.

·         Register as a group of more than two and enjoy a discount of (10% to 50%)

·         Payment should be done before commence of the training or as agreed by the parties, to the FOSCORE DEVELOPMENT CENTER account, so as to enable us to prepare better for you.

·         For any inquiries reach us at training@fdc-k.org or +254712260031

·         Website:www.fdc-k.org