Targeting social transfers in pastoralist societies: Ethiopia’s productive safety net programme revisited

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dc.creatorLind, Jeremy
dc.creatorSabates-Wheeler, Rachel
dc.creatorHoddinott, John F.
dc.creatorTaffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum
dc.date2018-09-20
dc.date2024-06-21T09:05:10Z
dc.date2024-06-21T09:05:10Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:06:29Z
dc.descriptionIn the Ethiopian highlands, the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) is a successful social safety net intervention in terms of both targeting and impact. By contrast, existing studies situated in the country's lowland Afar and Somali regions suggest that PSNP targeting is beset with difficulties. This is deeply concerning given that these predominantly agro-pastoral and pastoral areas have some of the country's highest levels of poverty and food insecurity and that there is an absence of viable livelihoods outside of pastoralism in these localities. In this paper, which draws on three rounds of household survey data from 2012, 2014, and 2016, we show that there has been no meaningful improvement in targeting performance since 2010. We assess five explanations for this – resources and under-coverage; the involvement of traditional leaders in targeting; insufficient training; attitudes of program implementers; and transparency – adducing that norms regarding fairness and a lack of transparency are the most likely explanations for continued poor targeting. The PSNP experience calls into question the effectiveness of technocratic fixes as well as the appropriateness of targeting transfers in pastoralist societies.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/145845
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/94751
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.publisherEthiopia Development Research Institute
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceLind, Jeremy; Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel; Hoddinott, John F.; and Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum. 2018. Targeting social transfers in pastoralist societies: Ethiopia’s productive safety net programme revisited. ESSP Working Paper 124. Washington, DC and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145845
dc.subjecthouseholds
dc.subjectsocial protection
dc.subjectpastoralism
dc.subjectpoverty
dc.subjectfood insecurity
dc.subjectproject evaluation
dc.titleTargeting social transfers in pastoralist societies: Ethiopia’s productive safety net programme revisited
dc.typeWorking Paper

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