Transcript Slide - IAOS 2014 Conference

Tripartite cooperation to
strengthen official food
security statistics
Experiences with Partnerships Part 1, IAOS 2014
Ellen Cathrine Kiøsterud, World Food Programme
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 energydeficiency
Diet Quality
Economic
Vulnerability
Nutrition
• Household with
high share of
energy from
staples
• Household with
high percentage
of expenditure
on food
• Prevalence of
wasting among
children under 5
years old
• Household with
Poor or
Borderline Food
Consumption
• Population
below poverty
line
• Prevalence of
stunting among
children under 5
years old
• Household with
Inadequate Food
Consumption
• Households with
low dietary
diversity
• Population with
food
consumption
below food
poverty line
• 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