Table 3.2 Core Features of Public Works Programs, Selected Countries and Programs (continued)
Program name
Agency
Cameroon Projet Government, d’Assainissement African de Yaoundé Development (Yaoundé Bank Sanitation Project) Food for work WFP
Ethiopia Productive Safety Net Program
Government, supported by a number of donors
Main objectives
Payment type Location
Targeting
Wage setting for cash programs
Duration or frequency of employment
Gender of participants
Poverty targeting
Temporary employment to clean up infrastructure
Cash
Urban
Geographic; selftargeting using wage rate
CFAF 300 per hour, almost 200% of regular pay
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Reduction of food insecurity and building of rural assets
Food
Rural
Self-targeting using wage rate
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Rural
Geographic, community based; selftargeting using wage rate
Br 10 or 3 kilograms of cereals per day (US$0.80 per day), estimated at about 40% of annual food needs (set to be about 10% of the basket represented by the national poverty line in 2007/08)
Assurance of food Food, consumption and cash, prevention of asset or a depletion for rural mix food-insecure households in a way that stimulates markets, improves access to services and natural resources, and rehabilitates and enhances the natural environment
6 months Women 87% of during the account for participants lean season, 44% of total food insecure repeated over person-days a number of years
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