To improve policy and programme response to global hunger through an improved monitoring of food insecurity.

Status of the project
CLOSED

• Supported testing, validating and applying the FAO FIES in several countries in SubSaharan Africa, starting with the four focus countries of the Renewed Partnership for Ending Hunger in Africa by 2025.
• Validated the use of the FIES applied on an annual global basis as a universal metric for the severity of food insecurity.
• Produced culturally and linguistically adapted versions of the FIES questionnaire in local languages of targeted countries that can be used in virtually any food insecurity monitoring framework where timely and reliable information is of essence
• Designed and produced software needed to process the data and compute the indicators.
• Promoted the inclusion of the FIES module in nationally and sub nationally representative household surveys conducted by a national institution in the target country to produce disaggregated data on the food security situation of different population groups.
• Produced and published indicators of the prevalence of food insecurity at different severity levels in a number of sub-Saharan countries
• Developed the capacities of national institutions involved in the collection and use of food security information.
  *This project was working before under the project symbol: FMM/GLO/106/MUL

• FAO’s Multipartner Programme Support Mechanism Medium-term final report 2014–17
• FAO’s Smarter investments Up-scaled development
• Better information for better policies: setting the global standard to measure food Insecurity 
• Voices of the Hungry