1. 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?

2. PSNP: BACKGROUND
The Productive Safety Net Program ( ) 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.

3. 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

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

5. 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

6. 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)

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. Challenges Common Framework Joint work and capacity
Trust and communication

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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