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
Describe progression (of asset building) from very poor CFI (who are afraid to take credit for fear they cannot pay it back, so need a smaller, cost-shared starter loan) to CFI (who can obtain credit on normal terms) to transitionally food insecure who have just graduated from the PSNP and who still need support building assets.
Describe cost shared loan: way of subsidizing the credit for households who are afraid they wouldn’t be able to pay back a full loan without subsidizing the interest rate. A certain portion of the first loan will be a grant, while the other portion will be a loan on a the same terms as other clients.

8. Direct Support Public Works
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
Access to markets is critical for households to increase their incomes and build their assets.
Past projects in Ethiopia have demonstrated the importance of a market-driven approach to livelihoods strengthening, even when working with food insecure households.

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. School Construction
3/27/2017

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