Expanded productive safety net
Description of the innovative solution
There is a crucial need for safeguarding vulnerable individuals and families against catastrophic collapse in food access during periods of stress – both acute or prolonged. This innovation includes a range of options that could be applied to various community actors depending on their level of vulnerability and capacity to engage in community support during these periods. Multi-pronged interventions would include direct support (e.g. cash and/or food transfers at the individual, household and/or community level), in-kind resource payments (e.g. food, seeds, materials, skills trainings,) in...
There is a crucial need for safeguarding vulnerable individuals and families against catastrophic collapse in food access during periods of stress – both acute or prolonged. This innovation includes a range of options that could be applied to various community actors depending on their level of vulnerability and capacity to engage in community support during these periods. Multi-pronged interventions would include direct support (e.g. cash and/or food transfers at the individual, household and/or community level), in-kind resource payments (e.g. food, seeds, materials, skills trainings,) in exchange for local infrastructure support when possible (e.g. building roads, on-farm terracing), and credit incentives for producers to focus on high priority nutrition dense crops.
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Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP)
Support for National Productive Safety Nets and Long-Term Community Resilience
Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme Phase IV Programme Implementation Manual
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Impacts of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) on dietary health of households
The contribution of Productive Safety Net Program for food security of the rural households in the case of Bale Zone, Southeast Ethiopia
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