DFID - RHVP

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RHVP context

• Growing caseload of chronically vulnerable to
  hunger.
• Continued reliance on short term responses
• . . . And limited menu of short term response
  options primarily food aid
• Concerns regarding the reliability of current
  vulnerability assessments to guide appropriate
  responses
• Concerns regarding the need for vulnerability
  assessment systems to capture the complex nature
  of vulnerability to guide appropriate responses

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RHVP The big picture

• Goal
• Reduce hunger vulnerability in southern Africa
• Purpose
• Improve national and regional policies systems
  for addressing hunger vulnerability in the SADC
  region

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How will we achieve this?3 content areas

• Improving knowledge
• Generate, synthesise, interpret disseminate
  evidence for better policy response
• Improving human technical capacity
• Enhance human technical capacities to provide
  and interpret information on vulnerability for
  better policy response
• Promoting policy uptake
• Enhance policy-makers capacity to main stream
  hunger and vulnerability issues in national
  policy frameworks

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RHVP
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
adopting broader policy options and mainstreaming
them in PRSPs
knowledge and its application
VAA and broader approaches
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How will we achieve this?Approach

• A demand driven resource
• . . . But on merit not an entitlement
• Provide a regional perspective
• Support countries own initiatives
• Develop tools and evidence to support improved
  assessment, analysis policy-making
• Building capacities to support improved
  assessment, analysis policy-making

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How RHVP will add value the regional dimension

• Technical
• Consistent and comparable methodologies
• Establishing key common indicators
• Cross border information systems
• Developing regional engine to generate needed
  human and technical capacity
• Lessons
• Comparative studies to identify best practices
  (intra/extra regional)
• Retrospective evaluation of the accuracy of VAA
  predictions
• Preparation of generic handbooks/implementation
  manuals
• Advocacy
• Preparing generic policy guidelines
• Bringing lessons to the attention of policy
  makers
• Externalities of national policy choices

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How RHVP will add value the national dimension

• Technical
• Building capacities in existing institutions
• Supporting the institutionalisation of existing
  systems
• Lessons
• Synthesising existing policies and instruments
• Commissioning national evidence based research
• Advocacy
• Promoting the inclusion of hunger and
  vulnerability issues in national policy
  frameworks
• Promoting the provision of predictable resources
  to meet the needs of the predictably vulnerable

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What RHVP is and isnt

• Isnt about
• Imposing a blueprint
• OR
• Dictating national or regional level priorities

• Is about
• A demand driven resource
• Providing evidence identifying lessons on best
  practice
• Building national regional capacities

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What RHVP is and isnt

• Isnt about
• Abandoning food aid
• OR
• Wholesale replace-ment of food aid with cash
  transfers

• Is about
• Predictable resources for predictable needs
• On-budget funding
• Placing food aid within a social protection
  context
• Looking at longer term options

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What RHVP is and isnt

• Is about
• Working with existing institutions
• Promoting evolution of tried and tested tools
• Enabling VAA to better serve evolving user needs
  in reducing hunger vulnerability

• Isnt about
• Replicating or replacing existing institutions
• OR
• Replicating or replacing existing tools and
  methods

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What do we hope to leave behindregional level

• Stronger regional coordination cooperation on
  hunger and vulnerability responses
• A stronger regional capacity to generate skills,
  methodologies and research to support hunger
  vulnerability assessment responses
• A stronger regional capacity to manage
  information evidence on hunger vulnerability

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What do we hope to leave behind-national level

• Increased Government responsibility and
  accountability for reducing hunger
  vulnerability
• Better VAA systems relevant, accurate, reliable
  and sustainable
• Hunger vulnerability issues incorporated in
  national policy framework
• Adequate on budget resources provided to meet
  needs of the predictably vulnerable
• Broader range of short and long term instruments
  to respond to chronic vulnerability

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• Thank you
• www.rhvp.org