1. WHO NEEDS FOOD SECURITY MEASURES & WHY?

2. FRAMING / NARRATIVE

3. FRAMING / NARRATIVE
Despite limitations one/two headline indicators are seductive headline grabbing, and influential
What are they useful for?
Measuring progress
...but also...
Framing issues, challenges, agendas: telling compelling stories

4. UNDERSTANDING LIVED EXPERIENCES

5. UNDERSTANDING LIVED EXPERIENCES
Context:
Individual situations, behavioural responses >> building up to an understanding of system-wide effects
What’s useful?
Situating / triangulating in-depth qualitative findings
Self-reported experiences of food security outcomes
Understanding transitory/acute food insecurity as well as chronic FI
Capturing impacts of shocks on malnourishment as well as undernourishment
(Preferences / adaptations)

6. PROGRAMME / RESPONSE DESIGN
Copyright: Sophie McGrath/ Oxfam
In the remote community of Gobablay, Shinile zone – and in the rest of eastern Ethiopia’s Somali Region – the rain normally starts at the end of March. This year, in the last days of April, it has yet to arrive.  This year, the situation has been made even worse by a moderate episode of the La Nina climate phenomenon, which has caused drought across East Africa and depleted the remaining pasture.  In the last few months thousands of Ethiopians have at least been able to rely on one source of income – Oxfam’s cash-for-work projects. By helping construct fences, trenches, dams, and other structures that protect and improve pasture and farmland, they earn a steady income for weeks at a time.  The income’s not just keeping people going – it’s stopping them from going, too, to seek better conditions elsewhere.  ‘Now, even if I went to market and sold my animals, the money wouldn’t cover my living costs’. Says Muuse, he currently depends on labouring for an income. ‘I have no other means of surviving.’

7. PROGRAMME / RESPONSE DESIGN
Household Economy Analysis
Rapid appraisals
IPC (Integrated Food Security Phase Classification)
What’s useful?
Determinants as well as outcomes
Early warning
Understanding chronic as well as acute stressors

8. MORE USEFUL LESS USEFUL
Scalable
Internationally comparable
Individual disaggregation
esp. by gender
Timely
able to capture transitory, seasonal FI as well as chronic FI
Conceptual clarity
maps to / transcends availability, access, utilisation, stability domains
SOFI suite
VOH (?)
Proliferation / duplication
Indices with arbitrary / opaque weightings
Easily misused, misinterpreted
Displacing rich qualitative analysis