May 16 in Parallel Session 3A "Vulnerability & Volatility: Dealing with Local & National Shocks". Presented by Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse, IFPRI.

1. Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
May 2014
Resilience Policy - Some Lessons from Ethiopia’s PSNP

2. Outline
 Premise and aim;
 The PSNP – a brief description, impact;
 Key lessons;

3. Introduction
 Policy
 Goals – objectives or targets that are to be attained or promoted;
 Instruments – means deployed to achieve policy goals or targets;
 Causal framework – summarises the expected link between
instruments and goals;
 Resilience
 the capability to anticipate risk, limit impact, and bounce back rapidly
through survival, adaptability, evolution, and growth in the face of,
sometimes considerable, change.
 Resilience policy

4. Premise and aim
 Premise
 Significant commonalities in East Africa - chronic food
insecurity and attendant causes and consequences;
 Lessons can be distilled from country-level experiences;
 These lessons may inform other initiatives at the country
and/or regional levels;
 Aim
 highlight key lessons from the PSNP for future resilience-
related interventions; particularly those involving
cooperation between donors, governments, and other
stakeholders;

5. The PSNP
 Motivation
 the drought of 2002-03;
 New Coalition for Food Security in Ethiopia (2003)
 Features
 Coordination and commitment – donors (9), government;
 Predictability - multi-year planning and financing;
 Combine transfers with asset building – PW plus direct support ;
 Integrated with the broader development agenda;
 Large
o Beneficiaries - Up to 8 million persons, nearly 300 woredas (40%);
o Cost - US$1.5 billion (2005-09); US$2.1 billion (2010-14)

6. The PSNP
 Impact
 Five years (2006-2010) of participation in the PSNP-PW:
o reduced the length of the last hungry season by 1.29 months;
o raises livestock holdings by 0.38 tropical livestock units;
 Impact of access to the PSNP along with the OFSP/HABP is
even higher:
o length of the last hungry season lower by 1.5 months per year; and
o livestock holdings higher by 0.99 TLU;
o fertilizer use rose, investments in agriculture increased, and crop
yields increased
 Note: these impacts occurred against the background of rising
food prices and widespread drought

7. Key Lessons
 Crisis can be an opportunity – 2002-03 drought and PSNP;
 Principles:
 Ownership – Government program;
 Integration – part of the national development effort/plan;
 Coordination – among donors, donors and government,
within government;
 Complementarity – addressing emergency, enhancing
resilience, and promoting development (E.g. Drought Risk
Financing (DRF))

8. Key Lessons
 Process
 Dialogue – genuine;
 What and how – implementation strategy;
 Monitoring and evaluation
 a part of the initial design and mutual understanding;
 independent but collaborative – government, donors, the
national statistical agency, external evaluators;
 interim rigorous evaluations – three so far;
o Create opportunities to learn and adjust (Payroll and Attendance Sheet
System (PASS), Client cards )
o Help bridge results-based budgeting and longer term programming
designed to achieve impact