EC SHARE – FAO - Strengthening Institutionalized Sub-national Coordination Structures and Harmonization Mechanisms Project Coordination and Experience Sharing Forum on Food Security – Resilience Building (NESF 7-8th December)   PSNP: 14 YEARS OF COORDINATING FOOD SECURITY Fatima Naqvi   ILRI Campus, Addis Ababa, 7-8th December 2016 What challenges (gaps and overlaps) and how to strengthen our coordination mechanisms for resilience building?

PSNP: BACKGROUND The Productive Safety Net Program (2005-2020) aims to: Improve household food security, livelihoods and nutrition Enhance household and community resilience to shocks The PSNP provides a safety net system that: Provides appropriate, timely, and accessible transfers to beneficiary households, including in response to drought shock Creates productive and sustainable community assets and improves access to social services through public works Supports livelihood interventions that build assets, promote increased productivity, and encourage diversification at the household level.

PSNP: BACKGROUND Cash and food transfers Public works and Permanent Direct Support Public works: 5,000 community watershed working on 35,000 sub- projects Livelihoods enhancement: training, transfers, credit Nutrition and health linkages

Contributions to Coordination for resilience Leadership and commitment Platform for resilience building Joint work and capacity

Leadership and Commitment Collective impact – moving away from fragmentation Flagship GoE program – strong ownership Strong donor harmonization (DWG, TC/TFs) Cuts across sectors of social protection, resilence, livelihoods, nutrition, gender Decentralized structure that is operational at different levels Integral component of food security at woreda and kebele level

Platform for Resilience-building: PSNP TARGETING The PSNP is a national program: 8 million people participate in the PSNP The program operates in 8 regions, 330 woredas (districts)

Platform for Resilience-building: PSNP TARGETING Targeting Step 1: geographic allocation The federal government allocates resources to woredas based on the number of people receiving food aid over past 3-5 years Targeting step 2: household targeting Communities carry out targeting through wealth ranking, targeting food insecure households Kebele Appeals Committees (KACs) hear and address complaints The impact evaluation has found that the PSNP is very well targeted to the poorest households in highlands

Joint Work and capacity: start of a journey Targeting the poorest in key areas of social protection, livelihoods, nutrition, gender Program implemented over several ministries: MoANR, MOLSA, MoH, livelihoods implementing agencies Start with joint planning – is still embedding Coordination not for information sharing but joint implementation e.g. implementation of gender and nutrition component by MoANR and MoH

Success Story A difficult start of working in silos, limited clarity of roles and responsibilities … engagement started with participation in joint planning and coordination platforms Workshop to harmonize training material for nutrition- sensitive agriculture

Challenges Common Framework Joint work and capacity Trust and communication

Common Framework: Its realization Vision of a scalable safety-net One needs assessment, one beneficiary list, one operational plan Institutional spilt causing duplication of efforts, ineffective targeting, and inefficient implementation With limited resources that means poorest households missing out on interventions to enhance their food security and resilence

Joint Work and Capacity All stakeholders still need to come together for joint planning Clear roles and responsibilities based on overall capacity of each stakeholder FSCD is the coordinating body but each department/Ministry has a role and equal accountability Engagement of non-government actors: NGO Framework

Trust and Communication Equal ownership of the program across all the stakeholders Participation and engagement of all stakeholders in key planning and implementation activities Starts with joint planning which has been weak Clear roles and responsibilities: MoU signing Dedicated resources for implementation and M&E

Conclusions and recommendations Social protection programs that scale up in response to drought can mitigate the impacts of shocks on household Integral to tackling food security and building resilience However, need to build on the investment of the past 14 years Use of PSNP as a platform to address the poorest i.e. a scalable safety-net, linkages to livelihoods, health and other social services