Urban Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia: Beneficiaries‟ Food Security Status, Participation Determinants and Its Contributions in Gulele Sub-City, Addis Ababa
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2020-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Understanding the root causes and level of food security would help policy makers to design and
implement more effective policies and programs for the poor and thereby helps to pave way to
improve food security. The central purpose of the study was to examine urban productive safety
net program in Ethiopia and its effects on the food security status of beneficiary’s households in
Gulele sub-city, Addis Ababa. Household surveys were conducted with 271 samples in the study
area. Analytical tools used include descriptive statistics, logistic regression model, Household
Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) and ordinary logit model. Problem tree analysis was used
to analyze the causes of food insecurity of study areas. The result logit model indicates, age of
household head, cash transferred from program, total income expenditure, consumption of
durable goods to be more significantly associated with household participation. The results show
that the approximately 2.2% of households were categorized as food secure, 26.3% as mildly
food insecure and 49% as moderately food insecure and 22.5% as severely food insecure in the
study area. The ordered logit model result also indicates age, family size, saving access and
consumption of durable goods of participant household heads have both positive and negative
effect on food security. The study concludes that even though urban productive safety net
program have a positive effects on beneficiaries, but not have statically significant changes in
their livelihood. The study recommends that local government at (federal, city, sub-city, and
woreda level) give attention on to create job opportunities, family planning and the adjustment of
the amount of cash transfer for the participants based on the current living condition to ensure
their food security.
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Social Protection, Urban productive safety-net programme, Beneficiary households, Household Food Insecurity Access Scale, Gulele Sub-city, Addis Ababa