Experience from the pilot project: Productive safety nets as a tool to reinforce the resilience in the Sahel” (April 2015 – Feb 2017) Sidy Gueye NIANG, FAO Ethiopia

1. SIDE EVENT #
Maximizing the impacts of social protection: the
“Cash Plus” approach
Experience from the pilot project: Productive safety nets as a tool to
reinforce the resilience in the Sahel” (April 2015 – Feb 2017)
Sidy Gueye NIANG, FAO Ethiopia

2. Social Protection: From Protection to Production
Programme description: the cash transfer
Total HH assisted: 1,400 very poor
households with children under five,
marginalized minorities and women
Targeting
method:
Community-
based targeting
using HEA criteria
Training:
• nutrition
education &
culinary
demonstration
Objectives of the project
Increasing
the resilience
to shocks
Knowledge
generating on
the impact of
cash +

3. Social Protection: From Protection to Production
Programme description: the cash + transfer
Total HH assisted: 1,400 very poor
households with children under five,
marginalized minorities and women
Targeting
method:
Community-
based targeting
using HEA criteria
Training:
• livestock breeding,
• Zoo-technical and
animal health
assistance and
monitoring
missions,
• livelihood and
production
capacity training
Objective of the project
Increasing
the resilience
to shocks
Knowledge
generating on
the impact of
cash +
Training:
• nutrition
education &
culinary
demonstration

4. Project
Partner
portfolio
Knowledge
generating
institutes
Private sector
(microfinance
institutions)
Animal health
and livestock
production
decentralized
office
Social
development
decentralized
office
International
and national
NGO
Institutional arrangements
• Single project linked with local services providers
• Partnership with Government decentralized services
• Sharing of findings in social protection coordination
space to feed policy debate

5. Social Protection: From Protection to Production
What does the evidence say?
PDM & market survey
- 30%
+72%
Livestock
income
5%
16%
HH FS Access
Score
70%
49%
Dietary diversity
score of women
6%
0%
Dietary diversity
score of children
+
-
Evolutionofindicator

6. Upscaling
successful pilot
& building blocks
• Social protection (cash +)
packages for resilience
building linked to national
response plan
• Develop graduation
pathways for effective
poverty reduction
• Ensure harmonized tools
and aligned planning
processes and policy
• Develop new generation of
agricultural programmes
that are flexible and social
protection sensitive
• Support institutional
capacity building
Final remarks / recommendations
Build on lessons learned to …

7. Thank you !!!
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From Protection
to Production