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Distance Learning - Courses
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Available courses
 | Food Security Information Systems and Networks |
| This course introduces and provides guidance in assessing different kinds of information systems related to food security analysis. | | Duration: | Approximately 2 hours. | | Language: | English, French | | Available on CD-ROM in English, French. Request a free copy. |
| Reporting Food Security Information |
| This course provides guidance in designing, writing and increasing the impact of food security reports in different contexts. | | Duration: | Approximately 3.5 hours. | | Language: | English, French | | Available on CD-ROM in English, French. Request a free copy. |
| Availability Assessment and Analysis |
| This course introduces the most commonly used methods to assess food availability at regional, national and local levels. It also provides examples and criteria for selecting the appropriate availability indicators. | | Duration: | Approximately 1.5 hours. | | Language: | English, French | | Available on CD-ROM in English, French. Request a free copy. |
| Baseline Food Security Assessments |
| This course describes the purpose and features of baseline assessments and how they differ from action-oriented assessments. The course also provides guidance on selecting a baseline assessment method depending on the context, and on how to incorporate historical trends when conducting food security assessments. | | Duration: | Approximately 2 hours. | | Language: | English, French | | Available on CD-ROM in English, French. Request a free copy. |
| Food Security Concepts and Frameworks |
| This course introduces the concepts and tools used in food security analysis. As a starting point, it defines the concept of food security and its relationship to the concepts of vulnerability, hunger, malnutrition and poverty. The course also provides guidelines on how to interpret and use conceptual frameworks for analysing food security. | | Duration: | Approximately 1.5 hours. | | Language: | English, French | | Available on CD-ROM in English, French. Request a free copy. |
| Collaboration and Advocacy Techniques |
| This course illustrates a wide range of tools and techniques that can be used to improve collaboration and knowledge sharing, and provides guidance on conducting collaborative food security assessments. The course also introduces the concept of advocacy and the various advocacy techniques required to influence different audiences. | | Duration: | Approximately 3 hours. | | Language: | English, French | | Available on CD-ROM in English, French. Request a free copy. |
| Livelihoods Assessment and Analysis |
| This course introduces the concept of livelihoods and the components of the livelihoods framework. It also provides guidance on assessing livelihoods in different food security contexts and on selecting and interpreting livelihoods indicators. | | Duration: | Approximately 2 hours. | | Language: | English, French | | Available on CD-ROM in English, French. Request a free copy. |
| Nutritional Status Assessment and Analysis |
| This course covers the basic concepts of malnutrition, describes how nutritional status is assessed, and identifies the most commonly used nutrition indicators, as well as the criteria to be used when selecting the indicators in specific contexts and situations. | | Duration: | Approximately 2 hours. | | Language: | English, French | | Available on CD-ROM in English, French. Request a free copy. |
| Food Security Policies - Formulation and Implementation |
| This course describes Food Security Policies and explains when and why they are required. The course also describes the process of Food Security Policy formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. | | Duration: | Approximately 3 hours. | | Language: | English | | Available on CD-ROM in English. Request a free copy. |
| Targeting |
| The course illustrates the basic principles related to the design, evaluation and monitoring of targeting systems. It also provides examples of how targeting principles can be applied both in emergency and longer-term food security contexts. | | Duration: | Approximately 3 hours. | | Language: | English | | Available on CD-ROM in English. Request a free copy. |
| Vulnerability Assessment and Analysis |
| This course provides a definition of vulnerability and illustrates the three critical dimensions used to define it. It also presents the most commonly used methods to assess vulnerability, and provides examples and criteria for selecting the appropriate vulnerability indicators. | | Duration: | Approximately 2 hours. | | Language: | English | | Available on CD-ROM in English. Request a free copy. |
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Future courses will cover the following topics on food security:
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Markets Assessment and Analysis |
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