Urban Productive Safety Net Program /Upsnp/ Implementation Practices and its Effect on Food Security Status of Poor Households in Arada Sub-city, Addis Ababa
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2021-11
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Food insecurity is a chronic and big problem in urban area. Ethiopia's government has
devised an urban food security strategy, as well as a job creation and food security program.
Addis Ababa city is one of the UPSNP beneficiary cities, currently implementing the program
by the collaboration of government and World Bank. This research study attempted to
investigate urban productive safety net program /UPSNP/ implementation practices and its
effect on food security status of poor households in woreda 10, Arada SubCity, Addis Ababa.
The study used purposive and simple random sampling techniques and the data was collected
using questionnaires, interviews and secondary data. Descriptive statistics were employed to
analyze the collected data. Quantitative data was managed using SPSS software in order to
describe key findings for the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) and
Food Consumption Score (FCS). Measures of central tendency (mean median and mode) and
measure of dispersion (variance and standard deviation) was a key descriptive statistic. The
finding shows that Arada sub city, woreda 10 urban productive safety net programs has
played a major role in ensuring the food security for the beneficiaries of the program. And
also, UPSNP is contributing to the development path by transferring cash to beneficiaries to
address poverty and by engaging in public works to enhance the living environment of
communities. The government of Ethiopia should expand the social protection policy through
the involvement of other NGOs. Finally, the UPSNP is more efficient in encountering
reducing food insecurity; solve basic social and economic problems furthermore as urban
productive safety net programs partially overcome the tutorial, health, and saving problem.
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urban productive safety net program, food insecure households, urban Poverty, targeted beneficiaries, food security status