The Impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme and its Linkages

Gilligan, Daniel O.; Hoddinott, John; Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum

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“…However, empirical studies of the role of livestock as an income buffer have been mixed (see Fafchamps et al 1998;McPeak 2004;Rosenzweig and Wolpin 1993;Udry 1995). Gilligan et al (2008) found that the PSNP and other food security programs increased food security, but at the same time reduced growth rates in livestock holdings. However, they considered only the average net effect from the beginning of the period considered in their survey to the end.…”

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“…While there have been some attempts to evaluate the PSNP, to our knowledge the only systematic attempt at evaluating the PSNP was made by Gilligan et al (2008). However, they only had access to recall data on the variables studied, making any firm conclusions problematic.…”

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“…In 2005, to combat the persistent problem of food insecurity and to move away from the previous system of annual emergency appeals, the Ethiopian government and a consortium of donors (including the World Bank, U.S. Agency for International Development, Canadian International Development Agency, and several European donors) launched a new social protection program called the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP). With an annual budget of nearly US$ 500 million, the PSNP is a huge program, reaching more than 7 million Ethiopians (Gilligan et al 2008). …”

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Impacts of the Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia on livestock and tree holdings of rural households

Andersson

Mekonnen

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2011

Journal of Development Economics

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We evaluated the impacts of the Ethiopian Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) on rural households' holdings of livestock and forest assets including trees. Using panel data, we applied both regression analysis and propensity score matching. We found no indication that participation in PSNP induces households to disinvest in livestock or trees. In fact, households that participated in the program increased the number of trees planted, but there was no increase in their livestock holdings. We found no evidence that the PSNP protects livestock in times of shock. Shocks appear to lead households to disinvest in livestock, but not in trees. Our results suggest that there is increased forestry activity as a result of PSNP, and that improved credit access encourages households to increase their livestock holdings.

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Impacts of the Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia on livestock and tree holdings of rural households

Andersson

Mekonnen

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2011

Journal of Development Economics

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“…Solid guidance now exists to bring rigour to evaluations of nutrition programmes. 52,100,[124][125][126] This guidance is needed to create solid ground for evaluation of the progress, and pathways to progress, of nutrition interventions, 110,127,128 with theory-driven and qualitative evaluations exploring the whys and hows of progress and the extent. 100,129 Analyses of eff ectiveness and operational evaluations of innovations that are introduced into scaled-up programmes, or of the process of scale up of innovative programmes from small-scale pilots to a large scale, are essential, but challenging.…”

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The politics of reducing malnutrition: building commitment and accelerating progress

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In the past 5 years, political discourse about the challenge of undernutrition has increased substantially at national and international levels and has led to stated commitments from many national governments, international organisations, and donors. The Scaling Up Nutrition movement has both driven, and been driven by, this developing momentum. Harmonisation has increased among stakeholders, with regard to their understanding of the main causes of malnutrition and to the various options for addressing it. The main challenges are to enhance and expand the quality and coverage of nutrition-specifi c interventions, and to maximise the nutrition sensitivity of more distal interventions, such as agriculture, social protection, and water and sanitation. But a crucial third level of action exists, which relates to the environments and processes that underpin and shape political and policy processes. We focus on this neglected level. We address several fundamental questions: how can enabling environments and processes be cultivated, sustained, and ultimately translated into results on the ground? How has high-level political momentum been generated? What needs to happen to turn this momentum into results? How can we ensure that high-quality, well-resourced interventions for nutrition are available to those who need them, and that agriculture, social protection, and water and sanitation systems and programmes are proactively reoriented to support nutrition goals? We use a six-cell framework to discuss the ways in which three domains (knowledge and evidence, politics and governance, and capacity and resources) are pivotal to create and sustain political momentum, and to translate momentum into results in high-burden countries.

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“…With evidence existing to support the exponential increases in inflation during crises and increased child mortality in macroeconomic crisis [32] as well as the decline in food consumption in periods of economic and financial crisis [33], a stage is set for the poor health in such instances [34] and the need for improvement in the social safety net [35]. The data provide us with a much better understanding of the crises such as poor health and child mortality and the consequences of the economic and financial crises; however, a gap exists in the literature on mortality and inflation.…”

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