Assessment of the Impact of Productive Safety Net Program on Households Asset Building and Soil Conservation Activities: The Case of Lemo District, Hadiya Zone, Southern Ethiopia
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2013-06
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Addis Ababa University
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PSNP in Ethiopia is inlended 10 bring aboul a signijicanl change and 10 beller respond 10
Ihe needs of Jood insecllre hOllseholds and creale prodllclive inveslmenls 10 slrenglhen
/"lIral economic growlh and environmenlal rehabililCllion. /n relalion 10 Ihe ill7pacl of
PSNP al counllY level; several endeavors have been done 10 assess ilS general ill7paCI,
bUI al local levels, especially in Ihe Lema Disirici Ihere are inadequale empirical
evidence on Ihe program expecled oilicomes like on assel building and inveslmenl in soil
conservalion aclivities by Ihe beneficiaries oj Ihe program. Therefore, Ihe objeclive oj
Ihis silldy was 10 assess Ihe impaci oj PSNP on assel building and soil and Ivaler
consen'alions aclivilies al Lema dislricl, Haddiya zone. Soulhem Elhiopia. The crossseclional
survey dala was galheredj;,oll7 18Jsample hOl/seholds which were laken Fom
inlervenlion and non-inlervenlion groups. A propensily score l17alching melhod was
applied 10 assess Ihe ill7pacl oj Ihe program on Oilicome variables (assel bllilding and
SWC aClivilies) Jar the ben~jiciary hOllseholds. As a resllll, kernel malching eslimalor of
band widlh 0.25 was selecled as besl malching algorilhm Ivhich hold large l17alched size
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and low Pselldo R . After mal ching only 167 malched respondenls, 91ji'om benejiciaries
and 67 non- ben~ficiaries, were used 10 come up wilh Ihe fincd decision. The ATT
eslimalion resull was indicales Ihal parlicipalion in PSNP did nol lead 10 sll'ong and
signijicanl effeci on individual 's hOllsehold 's assel building and praclicing of SWC
aClivilies by Ihe benejiciaries. ThereJore. re-thinking or re-evalualing Ihe program
objeclives al nalional, regional, and olher operational levels is inevilable 10 aClualize
desired objeclives.
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PSNP, !,,,pact, PropellSily Score Matchi"g, HOllseholds, Assel Building and SWC Activities, South em Ethiopia