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Overview of Task Force activities as of February 2008 35 th SCN Session, Hanoi, Vietnam 4 March 2008. Background. The Task Force on Assessment, Monitoring and Evaluation (TF-AME) was set up during the 33rd SCN Session (2006)
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Overview of Task Force activities as of February 2008 35th SCN Session, Hanoi, Vietnam 4 March 2008
Background • The Task Force on Assessment, Monitoring and Evaluation (TF-AME) was set up during the 33rd SCN Session (2006) • Role: “harmonize and capitalize on the related work being done across the various constituents of the SCN” (SCN Action Plan) • Chairs: FAO and WFP + 12 members from 3 different SCN constituencies • Draft concept note: 34th Session SCN (2007) • Draft work plan: November 2007
KeyPrinciples SCN Task Force AME works along following key principles: • Examine AME issues in placing nutrition within the broader poverty reduction and food security contexts • Link assessment, monitoring and evaluation work done in the emergency and development contexts • Ensure discussions at global level are linked in a practical manner to the country level
The Task Force’s Areas of Work • Area of work 1: establish an agreed upon minimum set of core indicators that measure food deprivation and malnutrition • Area of work 2: serve as an effective sounding board for the SCN Working Groups and inter-agency activities • Area of work 3: provide a forum where members can exchange information on AME best practices, tools and methods.
Planned results 2008 (1) • TF AME held first full meeting in Rome: January 2008 • Exchange of information on relevant AME activities and define synergies and products that ‘added value’ • Key products to be produced: • a statement and a review paper on stunting as the “principle evaluative indicator of poverty reduction”. • Fact sheets on selected nutrition and food security indicators or measures.
Planned results 2008 (2) • A study and/or review of selected indicators and thresholds used in the IPC (Integrated Food Security Phase Classification); • Possible support the revision of the SMART Food Security module.
Products/results (current) • An annotated Repository of documents related to food security and nutrition indicators • 3 fact sheets on the following indicators: MUAC, Dietary Diversity and Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS). • A short statement on stunting as the main indicator for endemic poverty • A two-page flyer/brochure on the Task Force’s work and a more detailed Report
Contacts and more Info Mark Smulders (FAO) - Chairperson mark.smulders@fao.org Agnès Dhur (WFP) - Co-chair agnes.dhur@wfp.org Thank you !