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The purpose of this brief is to set the scene for the High Level Expert Forum on food insecurity in protracted crises. It presents an overview of the main defining characteristics of countries in protracted crises and their consequences particularly regarding food insecurity.
It pinpoints key issues that are common to protracted crises including the fact that addressing food insecurity in protracted crises rather than short term emergencies has become the norm rather than the exception. The current situation in such countries results in a number of challenges and policy implications that will be discussed during the HLEF. These include the need to rethink the current mainstream approach to relief and development and related aid delivery mechanisms and the necessity to build government ownership in contexts characterized by poor governance. Other emerging important issues include the need to mainstream the food-security and protracted-crises discourse into other key streams of intervention such as the Busan New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States as well strengthening coordination between humanitarian and development actors and involving non state actors.