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Experiences with Partnerships Part 1, IAOS 2014Ellen Cathrine Kiøsterud, World Food Programme

Tripartite cooperation to strengthen official food security statistics

The partners

Statistics Norway Norcap World Food

Programme NSO

Food Security Statistics

“Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life”.

Definition adopted at the

1996 World Food Summit

• Food availability

• Food access

• Food utilization

• Stability across these dimensions

Food Security Statistics

Diet Quantity

• Daily food energy consumption per capita (kilocalories)

• Population with food energy-deficiency

Diet Quality

• Household with high share of energy from staples

• Household with Poor or Borderline Food Consumption

• Household with Inadequate Food Consumption

• Households with low dietary diversity

Economic Vulnerability

• Household with high percentage of expenditure on food

• Population below poverty line

• Population with food consumption below food poverty line

Nutrition

• Prevalence of wasting among children under 5 years old

• Prevalence of stunting among children under 5 years old

• Prevalence of underweight among children under 5 years old

Coping

• Coping Strategies Index

Background

Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analyses

Strategic framework

• Source of information

• Efficient use of resources

• Harmonisation

• Commitment to national capacity building

Approach

Statistics Norway’s motivation

• Extension of Institutional Cooperation programmes

• Strengthen the role of national statistics and the National Statistical Office

• Contribute to harmonisation

• Assist the UN system

Results: Disseminated statistics

• Thematic Food Security and Nutrition reports

• Food Security Atlases

• Small Area Estimation food security indicators

• Light monitoring reports

Results: Dialogue

WFP - Asia workshop on cooperation with the National Statistical Systems, February 2014

Results: Integration

Results: Capacity Building