| Reporting Organization: | WFP - World Food Programme |
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| Total Budget ($CAD): | $ 10,000,000 |
| Timeframe: | March 1, 2018 - January 31, 2019 |
| Status: | Completion |
| Contact Information: | Unspecified |
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| Ethiopia - $ 10,000,000.00 (100.00%) | |
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This project represents Canada’s continuing support for Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program (PSPN). Led by the Government of Ethiopia, with support from Canada and other partners, this initiative aims to enhance household and community resilience to shocks, such as droughts, and improve household food security, nutrition and economic well-being in Ethiopia’s most vulnerable communities. To achieve these objectives, PSNP provides food insecure households with predictable food or cash transfers. In exchange for these transfers, PSNP beneficiaries participate in public works activities to build community assets and improve watershed management; a number of these activities build resilience to climate change. The most vulnerable beneficiaries (e.g. elderly people and pregnant and lactating mothers) receive transfers without contributing their labour for public works. The project reach is up to 10 million rural beneficiaries. Project activities include: (1) providing cash and food transfers to food insecure households; (2) conducting livelihoods interventions (e.g. crop and livestock production, and off-farm income generating activities); (3) providing key health and nutrition services (e.g. behaviour change communication activities), (4) construction of community assets (e.g. land rehabilitation, health posts); and (5) offering capacity development activities. Canada’s support to this program is provided through the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)and the World Bank.
| Gender and age: | Adult women Adult men Adolescent females Adolescent males Children, girls Children, boys Under-5 children Newborns Older adults, women Older adults, men |
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| Descriptors: | Rural |
| Total Direct Population: | 318,170 |
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Return to topThe expected intermediate outcomes for this project include: (1) enhanced livelihoods and resilience to shocks for rural female/male headed households vulnerable to food insecurity; and (2) food security and nutrition improved for rural female/male headed households vulnerable to food insecurity.
Results achieved as of August 2018 include: (1) provided timely food transfers to food insecure people affected by the drought crisis in Ethiopia. This funding covered the provision of food (cereals and pulses) over an additional period of two months to food insecure households, with a particular focus on the poorest and most vulnerable, including pregnant and lactating women, and young children; and (2) met the needs of up to 318,170 PSNP beneficiaries affected by the drought. These results have contributed to an enhanced livelihood and resilience to shocks for rural households affected by food insecurity. These results have also contributed to an improved food security and nutrition for rural households.
