Learning from the 2017 Guatemala City Urban Food Security Needs Assessment Exercise

From 2014-2018, the World Food Programme (WFP), the Global Food Security Cluster (gFSC) and a number of partners, led an initiative called ‘Adapting to an Urban World’, which sought to better understand the nature of vulnerability and food insecurity in urban environments. The initiative also allowed for the piloting of new questions, tools and approaches to better understand food security needs in times of crisis, in recognition that many of the tools and methods for understanding food security were developed with rural contexts in mind. 

In 2016-2017, WFP Guatemala with assistance from the Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean led one of several exercises which came under the ‘Adapting to an Urban World’ project. This brief report shares key learning identified through discussion with colleagues involved in the Guatemala exercise.