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Overview of the productive Safety Net Program Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

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

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Overview of the productive Safety Net Program Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. FSP has three components… • Resettlement • Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) • Other Food Security Programme Presentation focuses mainly on PSNP…

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. Development partners PSNP is implemented by the Government of Ethiopia with the support of: DFID EC WORLD BANK CIDA SIDA RNE WFP USAID Irish Aid

  8. PSNP Components Direct Support Public Works

  9. 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

  10. 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

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

  12. Percolation ponds for water harvesting, recharging underground water table

  13. Gully Reclamation Work

  14. Check dams for water harvesting

  15. Reforestation

  16. Water harvesting

  17. Mini dams and river diversions

  18. Health Post Construction

  19. Bridge Construction

  20. Road Construction

  21. SchoolConstruction

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. THANK YOU AMESGENALEHU

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