Overview of the productive Safety Net Program Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Food Security Coordination Directorate.

Overview of the productive Safety Net

Program

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

Food Security Coordination Directorate

Background The Government of Ethiopia launched the New

Coalition for Food Security in Ethiopia in 2003 Since 2003 , the program has been under

implementation in 290 chronically food insecure woredas

Core objectives of the Food Security Programme

Enabling 8.29 million chronically food insecure people to attain food security

Significantly improving the food security situation of 6.71 million additional food insecure people

FSP has three components…

1. Resettlement

2. Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP)

3. Other Food Security Programme

Presentation focuses mainly on PSNP…

PSNP

PSNP is a multi-donor funded program designed to address short-term consumption gaps of chronically food insecure households through the provision of multi year predictable resources.

Objective of PSNP

To provide transfers to the food insecure households in chronically food insecure woredas in a way that prevents asset depletion at the household level and creates asset at the community level.

Development partners PSNP is implemented by the Government of Ethiopia

with the support of:

DFID EC WORLD BANK CIDA SIDA RNE WFP USAIDIrish Aid

PSNP Components

1. Direct Support

2. Public Works

Direct Support

Ensures support to households who lack labour, have no other means of support, and who are chronically food insecure

DS beneficiaries can participate in light community works such as community child-care centre at public works sites or nutrition education

Public Works

Under the Public Works component :-

Labor intensive activities will be designed to provide employment to food insecure households

Sustainable community assets will be developed Natural resource base and social infrastructure will

be improved Watersheds will, be developed properly , and this

will help in increasing productivity and improving livelihoods

Public Works Activities Soil and water conservation Water harvesting Small-scale irrigation Water supply schemes Afforestation Rural infrastructure development Construction of social services

Percolation ponds for water harvesting, recharging underground

water table

Gully Reclamation Work

Check dams for water harvesting

Reforestation

Water harvesting

Mini dams and river diversions

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Health Post Construction

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Bridge Construction

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Road Construction

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School Construction

Impacts to date

Delivery of timely transfers to poorest citizens in rural areas

PSNP played a critical role in responding to the crisis Productive Public works Constructed : . Productive assets are created for communities (primary schools, health services, potable water, FTC, Rural feeder roads) Household food security is improved Progress towards graduation: . More than 524,000 people became food self sufficient who were food insecure in 2006 PSNP has shown a measurable impact on beneficiaries

livelihoods as measured by income and assets

Some lessons learned PSNP demonstrated value of shift away

from humanitarian response system to more development oriented approach

Year on year improvements on timely transfers

Capacity to implement overall programme is improved

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