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BOX 6.11 (continued)
Table B6.11.2 Household Consumption, Assets, and Land Access in PSNP Woredas, by PSNP Beneficiary Status, 2008
Economic characteristics
Direct support
Public works
Non-PSNP
Total consumption (birr) per month, average
627
1,012
1,111
Land (hectares), average Assets (birr), average
1.0
1.1
1.4
2,349
4,568
6,480
Source: IFPRI/CSA 2008 Household Survey as quoted in Van Domelen and Coll-Black 2012. Note: Consumption refers to the value of total consumption (food and nonfood) both purchased and the value of production of self-produced goods. Assets are the value of livestock and productive equipment used in agriculture. PSNP = Productive Safety Net Program. US$1 = birr$9.19.
establish standard rules for a biennial assessment (or recertification) of all beneficiaries who have been in the program for more than three years and an assessment of households that benefited from livelihood services two years after they obtained funding for their business plans. Every four years there will be a major household retargeting exercise to correspond with the reallocation of the caseload. Moreover, the program is upgrading its heretofore rather modest management information system to be the seed of a richer household registry so that multiple programs in Ethiopia can share information. Recent years have seen an increase in conflict and civil unrest, leading to large-scale cases of internal displacement, including of PSNP beneficiary households, necessitating the introduction of protocols on how to safeguard the entitlements of affected beneficiaries. In PSNP woredas affected by unrest, beneficiaries who become internally displaced will remain on the payroll for at least one year after displacement. Exiting or replacing displaced beneficiaries will not be permitted during that period. Displaced beneficiaries who return to the PSNP woreda within one year will be entitled to receive all the benefits from the absence period. Temporarily displaced people who are hosted in PSNP woredas may be assisted through the woreda contingency budget based on the community’s assessment of their eligibility. In situations of protracted displacement within PSNP host communities, for at least two years, woredas will be allowed to relax the three-year c ommunity membership rule to include displaced families in the p rogram if they meet the poverty/ vulnerability eligibility criteria. Sources: MoARD 2006; Van Domelen and Coll-Black 2012; World Bank 2020.
