Grants and Contributions:
Title:
Rural Social Protection: Productive Safety Net Program 2016-2021
Agreement Number:
7418396 P001433001
Agreement Value:
$16,500,000.00
Agreement Date:
Feb 26, 2020 - Mar 31, 2020
Description:
This project represents Canada's continuing support for Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Program (PSPN). Led by the Government of Ethiopia, with support from Canada and other partners, this initiative aims to enhance household and community resilience to shocks, such as droughts, and improve household food security, nutrition and economic well-being in Ethiopia's most vulnerable communities. To achieve these objectives, the project provides food insecure households with predictable food or cash transfers. In exchange for these transfers, beneficiaries participate in public works activities to build community assets and improve watershed management; a number of these activities build resilience to climate change. The most vulnerable beneficiaries (e.g. elderly people and pregnant and lactating mothers) receive transfers without contributing their labour for public works. The project reach is up to 10 million rural beneficiaries.
Project activities include: (1) providing cash and food transfers to food insecure households; (2) conducting livelihoods interventions (e.g. crop and livestock production, and off-farm income generating activities); (3) providing key health and nutrition services (e.g. behaviour change communication activities); (4) construction of community assets (e.g. land rehabilitation, health posts); and (5) offering capacity development activities.
Canada's support to this program is provided through the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Bank.
Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Expected Results:
The expected intermediate outcomes for this project include: 1) enhanced livelihoods and resilience to shocks for rural female/male-headed households vulnerable to food insecurity; and 2) improved food security and nutrition for rural female/male-headed households vulnerable to food insecurity.
Location:
Washington, US
Reference Number:
064-2019-2020-Q4-00117
Agreement Type:
Grant
Report Type:
Grants and Contributions
Recipient Type:
Not-for-profit organization or charity
Recipient's Legal Name:
IBRD Trust Funds - World Bank
Program:
International Development Assistance Program
Program Purpose:
The main purpose on the International Development Assistance Program is to reduce poverty for those living in countries where Global Affairs Canada engages in international development.