Abstract
Ethiopia lunched Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) as social protection program since 2005 to tackle the causes of food insecurity. Even though, the country lunched the PSNP there are different challenges that hinder proper implementation of program for attaining intended impact on rural community. This paper seeks to review the impact of Ethiopia’s PSNP and its implementation challenges through qualitative approach. Different literatures were reviewed on PSNP, which were done at national, regional and district level. The literatures were obtained through internet search from Google, Google scholar and database. Among 84 papers retrieved, only 28 of the published and unpublished organization reports, research reports and policy briefs were reviewed based on their relevance to the topic. According to the review, there are irreconcilable results regarding to the impacts of PSNP. Accordingly, PSNP has both positive and negative impact on beneficiaries’ social, economic and environmental development. Thus, before implementation, the government should consider social, economic, environmental issues and available resources. Therefore, concerned bodies should consider impact of the PSNP and family support on the beneficiaries’ livelihood, and they should depend on panel data. Key words: Challenges, Ethiopia, impact, Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP), social protection.
Highlights
Even if there is a success story in reduction of hunger and poverty in some countries of South Asia and subSaharan Africa, the overall prevalence of hunger and poverty progress has fallen slowly
Most people who live in rural areas and depend on agriculture as income generating activity were faced by food insecurity (FAO, 2015 )
Agriculture is the source of food and income for over 85% of the Ethiopian population, but drought becomes the main cause of livelihood crisis for the rural community
Summary
Even if there is a success story in reduction of hunger and poverty in some countries of South Asia and subSaharan Africa, the overall prevalence of hunger and poverty progress has fallen slowly. Most of the people in these countries live in rural areas and rely on agriculture as the source of their income. Due to the prevalence of hunger and poverty, they become chronically food insecure (FAO, 2015). To reduce and/or prevent poverty and hunger, many countries in the developing world increasingly recognized that social protection measures have paramount role. Many studies support that social protection programs have been successful in reducing hunger and poverty. Social protection program has positive impacts on local communities and economies to increase and diversify their food consumption, child and maternal
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