FSMS

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FSMS

• A FSMS is a tool to track food security status of
  vulnerable households in specific geographic
  regions.
• The goal of a FSMS is to ensure decision makers
  are equipped with timely and relevant information
• When to initiate an assessment
• When to initiate aid
• When to suspend aid

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Objectives

• Reach consensus on most food insecure areas and
  groups
• Integrate and harmonize all information
  pertaining to food security and vulnerability
• Link information to hazards and contingency
  planning
• Outline a sustainable monitoring system for
  implementation by GoT

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Integrated Food Security and Humanitarian Phase
Classification

• Developed by FAO FSAU in Somalia
• Piloted in Indonesia, Cambodia
• Emphasis on Comparability
• Consensus building
• 5 Phases

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Scope

• Inputs
• Contingency Planning natural, conflict, economic
  shocks
• Markets Food, fuel and transport cost
  fluctuation
• Food Security Availability, Access, Utilization
• Indicator Selection
• Relevant to local conditions
• Available at acceptable cost
• Allowing early warning
• Measurable in an objective way
• Crisis indicators (triggers and thresholds)
• Avoid large unmanageable system design
• Realistic (GoT Capacity)
• Indicative (Early Warning)
• Timeframe
• June - November

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Institutional Setup

• Sustainable long term plan
• Imbedded in an existing structure govt
• Avoid parallel systems
• Strong collaboration and integration with
  existing EW or FSM systems

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Shocks and Hazards

• Border restrictions
• Export of aluminum and cotton
• Import of food supplies (Uzb)
• Labor movement
• Influx of refugees
• Natural Hazards
• Snow bound area
• Earthquake, drought, floods, landslides

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Outputs

• Establishment of
• Steering Committee
• Technical Working Group
• Identification of
• Food Security Zones
• Food Security Monitoring Indicators for each Zone
• Monitoring details
• Frequency of data collection
• Agencies involved
• Output
• IPC Tajikistan Report
• Brochure Food Security Zones of Tajikistan
• Webpage Periodic Food Security Monitoring

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Outputs

• Process
• Steering Committee
• Technical Working Group
• Monitoring System
• Product
• Food Security Zones
• IPC templates, maps
• Food Security Brochure
• Monitoring Indicators
• Food Security Monitoring webpage