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Courses on Food Security

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Communicating for Food Security Close
The course provides guidance on how to design and implement a communication strategy for food security information. Using several realistic examples, the course illustrates the various components of a communication strategy, and provides concrete and detailed guidelines on how to communicate through the media and how to present information to policymakers in order to influence the policymaking process. Duration:  8 hours
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Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Close
The course provides an overview of the IPC approach as well as guidance on how to use IPC components. Duration:  3 hours
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Introduction to Social Safety Nets Close
The course provides an overview of Social Safety Net programmes and systems and how they are used and customized according to different contexts. It also introduces the key processes for designing and implementing Social Safety Net programmes. Duration:  4 hours
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Climate Change and Food Security Close
This course provides an overview of the impacts of climate change on food security. It also introduces climate-smart agriculture and practices that contribute to climate change adaptation, mitigation, food security and development. Duration:  3.5 hours
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Resilience in Food Security Analysis Close
This e-learning course, entitled Resilience in Food Security Analysis, introduces you to the concept of resilience and its possible use in food security analysis. Duration:  2.5 hours
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Reporting Food Security Information Close
This course provides guidance in designing, writing and increasing the impact of food security reports in different contexts. Duration:  3.5 hours
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Food Security Information Systems and Networks Close
This course introduces and provides guidance in assessing different kinds of information systems related to food security analysis. Duration:  2 hours
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Nutritional Status Assessment and Analysis Close
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:  2 hours
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Availability Assessment and Analysis Close
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:  1.5 hours
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Baseline Food Security Assessments Close
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:  2 hours
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Collaboration and Advocacy Techniques Close
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:  3 hours
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Livelihoods Assessment and Analysis Close
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:  2 hours
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Food Security Concepts and Frameworks Close
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
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Food Security Policies - Formulation and Implementation Close
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:  3 hours
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Vulnerability Assessment and Analysis Close
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
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Targeting Close
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
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Markets Assessment and Analysis Close
The course illustrates how markets operate and how they relate to, and affect, food security and vulnerable households. It describes market components and how they function, and introduces some of the methods and indicators used to assess markets for improving food security analysis. Duration:  Approximately 2 hours
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Highlighted e-learning courses

Assessing Impact of Development Programmes on Food Security

This e-learning course on "Assessing Impact of Development Programmes on Food Security" has been designed to support countries and regions in assessing the overall impact of their investments in food security on the well being of the targeted populations. The course brings together the latest information on impact assessment from numerous guidelines and presents it within the context of large-scale development programmes that address food insecurity; however the methods and approaches described in the course are equally applicable to smaller projects. Duration: 10 hours.

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