|
DETECTING CHANGES
Comprehensive Vulnerability Analysis provides an understanding
of the basic causes of food insecurity and vulnerability by geographic
location and social group.
The risks which vulnerable households face in food production,
income generation and consumption are always changing.
Thus the monitoring of these changes in food security and vulnerability
are an important part of the Standard Analytical Framework since
they build upon the findings of the baseline vulnerability analyses.
Vulnerability monitoring activities are used to identify changes
in food security conditions in geographic regions or social groups
identified by the comprehensive vulnerability analysis.
The main functions of vulnerability monitoring are to provide:
- Inputs for local early warning systems that could assist
in identifying potential emergency situation within a country
- Timely information on the food security status of current
WFP beneficiaries and other vulnerable groups
- Regular food security situation updates to WFP, government
counterparts and implementing partners in the form of food security
and vulnerability bulletins or newsletters.
| VAM input into
Early Warning |
Early
warning systems are the best known vulnerability monitoring
strategies. They usually focus on tracking the status of regularly
occurring hazards to food security such as drought, floods,
El Nino and market prices over time
This information helps to predict the potential onset of a
crisis that could affect the food security status of groups
of people within a country or region
Where there is no organized early warning capability within
a country or region, WFP and partners (Governments, NGOs,
or regional organizations) may have to work to establish such
a mechanism. VAM may play a key role in assisting with the
design and implementation or data collection or reporting
for early warning activities through monitoring activities |
|