How to declare a famine: A primer from South Sudan

REACH’s South Sudan: Supporting IPC Food Security Analysis and humanitarian planning in the wake of the famine in How to declare a famine: A primer from South Sudan on IRIN News

“Hundreds of people are involved in the collection of facts, and we have eleven bases with national and international analysts spread across the country,” explains Katie Rickard, the country coordinator for REACH, a joint initiative of the non-profit ACTED, the think-tank IMPACT, and the UN’s Operational Satellite Applications Programme that develops information tools for the humanitarian sector. REACH works closely with the IPC in South Sudan, where it conducts statistical field research.

5 March, 2018