Reduced Coping Strategies Index IPC Global

Transcript:Reduced Coping Strategies Index IPC Global:
Reduced Coping Strategies Index IPC Global Partners With the support of Session 5 IPC Level 2 Training IPC Acute Food Insecurity Reduced Coping Strategies Index rCSI was developed by WFP and CARE Commonly collected food consumption indicator Focus is on food coping: what food coping strategies households employ when faced with lack of food or money to buy food rCSI - construct Five questions on frequency of food coping behaviours used over the past 7 days. 3 rCSI - construct 4 Each household is given an rCSI score by multiplying the frequency of the relevant coping strategies with the severity weight, and summing up the results: rCSI = lesspreferred + (borrow * 2) + limit + (restrict * 3) + reduce Often used for monitoring purposes: frequently collected average rCSI for an area provides information on food security trends Linkages between rCSI and IPC Phases Tentative cut-off for Phase 4(-5): may be especially useful in situations where a lot of households have values of 19 and above 5 rCSI - strengths Often available, widely used Easy and quick to collect Good monitoring tool, enables quick detection of changes in household food security Works best in the early stages of crisis situations rCSI - limitations rCSI is of limited value in severe and protracted crisis situations, where households’ ability to cope by employing strategies has already been eroded. In order to get comparable results, rCSI should be collected periodically Occasionally quality of data is compromised if enumerators interpret ‘no’ or ‘zero’ answer to the first question as ‘no’ or ‘zero’ answer to all questions rCSI - quiz X X X X X X www.IPCinfo.org IPC Global Partners With the support of The End