NaFSA
Tool

1.1 | Activity of the World Food Program

Browse the alphabetic list of countries on this World Food Programme site:

When the country of interest appears on at the left of the website under “We respond to emergencies”, enter “emergency” into the field of data entry.
When the country is listed below in the alphabetical overview, enter “support” into the field of data entry.
When the country is not listed on the website, enter “not listed” into the field of data entry.

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1.2 | Presence of an Early Warning for Food Crisis

FAO – Categories of Food Crisis

See the section Country Analysis. Two categories are of interest:

1. Countries in crisis requiring external assistance for food and
2. Countries with unfavorable prospects for current crops

• When the country of interest appears in the list of “Countries in crisis requiring external assistance for food”, enter “crisis” into the field of data entry.
• When the audit country is listed under “Countries with unfavorable prospects for current crops”, enter “unfavorable” into the field of data entry.
• When the country is not listed on the website, enter “not listed” into the field of data entry

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1.3 | Presence of Food Price Anomalies

FAO – Indicator for Food Price Anomalies

Under “COUNTRIES” identify the country of interest and tick the box. Under “ELEMENTS” select “Value“.

Under “ITEMS” scroll down to choose “2.c.1 Indicator of Food Prica Anomalies (IFPA) by Food CPI” (consumer price Index).  Choose the most recent time period possible under “YEARS“.

Identify the IFPA (Indicator of food price anomalies) values for ‘Consumer Food Price Index’ for the country of interest. Enter the result into the box.

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1.4 | Level of Child Mortality

UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation

Identify the country of interest on the map. Choose the indicator “under 5 mortality” and click on the section “ESTIMATES“. Enter the most recent number into the field of data entry.

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1.5 | Prevalence of Undernourishment

FAO – Indicator Prevelance of Undernourishment

Scroll down to the complementary information of the SOFI (State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World). Click on FAO Hunger map – Prevalence of Undernourishment 2020-2022, SDG Indicator 2.1.1

Identify the values for “prevelance of Undernourishment” for the country of interest. Enter the result into the box.

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1.6 | Prevalance of Moderate or Severe Food Insecurity

UN Stats – SDG Global Database

Under the section “Global Database” click on “Select Indicators and Country or Area“, navigate to INDICATOR 2.1.2 PREVALENCE OF MODERATE OR SEVERE FOOD INSECURITY IN THE POPULATION BASED ON THE FOOD INSECURITY EXPERIENCE SCALE (FIES). (GOAL2>TARGET 2.1> INDICATOR 2.1.2).

Select the country of interest under “Countries, areas or regions” and under “Period” select at least the last five years. Enter “Show Results” and scroll down.

Under the header “AG_PRD_FIESMS” identify “Indicator 2.1.2, Series: PREVALENCE OF MODERATE OR SEVERE FOOD INSECURITY IN THE POPULATION (%) AG_PRD-FIESMS”. Click on the plus symbol. Look at the row with “ALLAREA” and “BOTHSEX”. If “rural” data are available specifically for the country, use the “rural” Data. Enter the date of the most recent year in the box.

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1.7 | Global Hunger Index

Scroll down to the map“Global Hunger Index Interactive Map“ and identify the GHI Score for the country of interest in the most recent year.

Enter the respective GHI Score of the country of interest.

Scroll down to the map“Global Hunger Index Interactive Map“ and identify the GHI Score for the country of interest in the most recent year.

Enter the respective GHI Score of the country of interest.

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2.1 | Water Scarcity

UN Water – Global physical and economic water Scarcity

Identify the country of interest and region on the map.

Enter the corresponding classification regarding water scarcity into the field of data entry.

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2.2 | Number of People Using Safely Managed Drinking Waters Services

UN Stats – SDG Global Database

Under “Select Indicators and Country or Area”, navigate to INDICATOR 6.1.1 PROPORTION OF POPULATION USING SAFELY MANAGED DRINKING WATER SERVICES. (GOAL6>TARGET 6.1> INDICATOR 6.1.1)

Select the country of interest under “Countries, areas or regions” and under “Period” select at least the last five years. Enter “Show Results” and scroll down.

Under the header “SH_H2O_SAFE” identify the “Indicator 6.1.1, Series: Proportion of population using safely managed drinking water services, by urban/rural (%) SH_H2O_SAFE”. Click on the plus symbol. If “rural” data are available specifically for the country, use the “rural” Data. Enter the date of the most recent year in the box.

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3.1 | Level of Human Development

UN Development Programme – Human Development Reports

Within the list of countries, identify the country of interest and click on it.

Use the INDEX (HDI value) of the country of interest and enter it into the field of data entry

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3.2 | Level of Gender Equity in Human Development

UN Development Programme – Human Development Reports

Browse the list of countries to identify the country of interest. Use the index which is given in the column Gender Development Index > VALUE (most recent year). At the time of release this was the first column after the country name.

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3.3 | Number of People Using Safely Managed Sanitation Services

UN Stats – SDG Global Database

Under “Select Indicators and Country or Area”, navigate to INDICATOR 6.2.1 PROPORTION OF POPULATION USING SAFELY MANAGED SANITATION SERVICES (GOAL6>TARGET 6.2> INDICATOR 6.2.1)

Identify the country of interest under “Geographic Area” and the most recent data entry in the respective Period column (e.g. 2016). If “rural” data are available specifically for the country, use the “rural” Data. Enter the result shown below under PROPORTION OF POPULATION USING SAFELY MANAGED SANITATION SERVICES into the box

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3.4 | Percentage of Rural People Living Below the National Poverty Line

World Bank – Databank Poverty and Equity

Scroll down and enter your country of interest under the tab “COUNTRY PROFILES”. Find the results under the tab “Key indicators (most recent values) – Poverty rate at $2.15 a day (2017 PPP) (% population)”. Enter the data into the field of data entry. 

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4.1 | Climate Risk

Germanwatch – Global Climate Risk Index

Scroll down to the map “Climate Risk Index: Most Affected Countries” and navigate to the version that reflects the longest period of time. Click on the country of interest and enter the respective Climate Risk Index Rank (CRI-Rank) into the field of data entry.

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4.2 | Physical Exposure of the Country to Natural Hazards

European Commission – INFORM

In the middle of the page you find “downloads”. Download the most recent INFORM Risk Index excel sheet (xlsx).

On the tab „INFORM Risk 2025 (a-z)“ identify the country of interest in the first column. Then look for the main column “Hazard & Exposure”. Look for the column “Natural”. Enter the Natural Hazard & Exposure Index into the field of data entry

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4.3 | Occurence of Violent Conflicts in the Country

European Commission – INFORM

In the middle of the page you find “downloads”. Download the most recent INFORM Risk Index excel sheet (xlsx). At the time of release of NaFSA 1.0, this was the INFORM 2020 .

On the tab “INFORM Risk” you find the list of countries with the respective Risk Index. Enter the Human Hazard & Exposure Index into the field of data entry.

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5.1 | Availability of a Development Policy and/or National Food Security Strategy

FAO – FAOLEX Database

Identify the country of interest and click on it to see country details. Browse the list of policies and legislative acts to evaluate if the country has an economic development policy and/or a food security strategy which still is valid.

Enter the outcome in the field of data entry. The dropdown menu allows you to choose between “food security/economic development strategy” and “no strategy”.

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5.2 | Availability of National Dietary Guidelines

FAO – Food based dietary guidelines

Browse the list of countries.
When the country of interest is listed, choose “national dietary guidelines in place” from the dropdown menu in the field of data entry. When the country of interest is not listed choose “no national dietary guidelines”.

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6.1 | Status of Democracy

Economist Intelligence Unit – Democracy Index

Download the most recent Democracy Index Report (you need to register, the report will be sent by mail, otherwise visit Our World in Data). Scroll down to the map of the most recent Democracy Index.

Identify the country of interest and enter the classification.

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6.2 | Status of State Fragility

DIE – Constellations of State Fragility

Identify the country of interest and click on it to see country details. Choose from the dropdown menu the respective class of state fragility for the audit country, given in the map (the legend is below the map).

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7.1 | Ratification of Human Rights Treaties

UN – Human Rights Indicators

Scroll down to the bottom of the website, choose the interactive map “STATUS OF RATIFICATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS TREATIES” and open it. (At the time of release of NaFSA 1.0, it was the first map in the list).

Identify the country of interest. By moving the mouse onto the country you see, how many treaties are ratified by the country. Enter into the field of data entry how many treaties are ratified by the country.

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7.2 | Status of Human Rights Institutions

UN – Human Rights Indicators

Scroll down to the bottom of the website, choose the map “ACCREDITATION OF NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTIONS” and open it. (At the time of release, it was the last map in the list).

In the pdf, identify the country of interest and the respective classification, given in the legend.

Choose the respective status from the dropdown menu in the field of data entry.

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7.3 | Presence of Extreme Food Price Anomalies

Global recognitions of the Right to Adequate Food

Within the list of countries, identify the country of interest and click on it to see further details.

At the top of the country details, a brief description is given, how the Right to Food (RtF) is recognized in the national legislation. Below the blue box “Constitutional Recognitions of the Right to adequate Food”, a heading with the category of recognition is given. Choose the respective category in the dropdown menu in the field of data entry. If no data is available, leave this field blank.

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7.4 | Ratification of the International Convent on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights

UN Human Rights – Status of Ratification/Interactive Dashboard

In the dropdown menu “select a treaty” at the topmiddle of the website, choose “International Convent on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights”.

Identify the country of interest. By moving the mouse onto the country you see the status of the respective country. Chose the respective status from the dropdown menu in the field of data entry.

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8.1 | Ratification of Fundamental International Labor Conventions (ILO)

ILO – Ratification of ILO Conventions

Within the list of countries, identify the country of interest and click on it to see further details.

At the top of the list, there is an overview, how many and what kind of conventions are ratified by the country. Choose the number of ratified FUNDAMENTAL CONVENTIONS from the dropdown menu in the field of data entry.

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8.2 | Ratification of International Labor Conventions Regarding Governance (ILO)

ILO – Ratification of ILO Conventions

Within the list of countries, identify the country of interest and click on it to see further details.

At the top of the list, there is an overview, how many and what kind of conventions are ratified by the country. Choose the number of ratified GOVERNANCE CONVENTIONS from the dropdown menu in the field of data entry.

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