The Effect of Urban Productive Safety Net Project to Household Food Security Status in Addis Ababa: A Case Study from Yeka Sub-City Woreda 08, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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2019-06

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Addis Ababa University

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This study was aimed to assess Urban Productive Safety Net Program's contribution to urban household food security status. UPSNP is a project serving as a tool to provide social protection for the households’ food secure through public works and direct support by providing cash and other benefit packages. UPSNP was implemented since 2016 in Addis Ababa. Community-based cross-sectional study design, purposive sampling techniques to select the target Woreda and random sampling to employ the participants, face to face interviews for data collection and to measure food security status FIES SM-II techniques were enrolled. The result indicates, from 272 samples HH, 30.51% & 69.49% were males and females headed HH respectively, and 50.37% & 49.63% were non-beneficiaries and beneficiaries in the UPSNP respectively. The result shows 13.97% & 29.04% food secure, 7.35% & 6.62% mild food insecure, 19.85% & 6.99% moderately food insecure and 8.46% & 7.72% severe food-insecure HH among beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries of UPSNP, respectively. The ordered logit model result also indicates household head education status and household combined income and household holding assets were negatively related to the food insecurity status of the households within a 1% significance level. Household family size has a positive relationship to household food insecurity status at a 5% significance level. The study concludes that beneficiaries of UPSNP have positive, but not have statically significant changes. Based on the result of this study the following issues recommended, the government should be increasing the amount of cash transfer and the project focused on the severe food-insecure household and illiterate household heads. Besides improving the education of HH heads, create job opportunities and increase their income which is vital in the alleviation of severe food insecurity

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FIES SM II, Food Security/Insecurity, Ordinary logit Model, UPSNP

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