Assessment of the Impact of Productive Safety Net Program on Households Asset Building and Soil Conservation Activities: The Case of Lemo District, Haddiya Zone, Southern Ethiopia
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2013-06
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Addis Ababa University
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PSNP in Ethiopia is intended to bring about a significant change and to better respond to the needs of food insecure households and create productive investments to strengthen in rural economic growth and environmental rehabilitation. In relation to the impact of PSNP at the country level; several endeavors have been done to assess its general impact, but at local levels, especially in the Lema District there are inadequate empirical evidence on the program expected outcomes like on asset building and investment in soil conservation activities by the beneficiaries of the program. Therefore, the objective of this study was to assess the impact of PSNP on asset building and soil and water conservations activities at Lema district, Haddiya zone, Southern Ethiopia. The cross sectional survey data was gathered from 181 sample households which were taken from intervention and non-intervention groups. A propensity score matching method was applied to assess the impact of the program on Outcome variables (asset building and SWC activities) for the beneficiary households. As a result, kernel matching estimator of band width 0.25 was selected as best matching algorithm which hold large matched size 2 and low Pseudo R2. After matching only 167 matched respondents, 91 from beneficiaries and 67 non-beneficiaries, were used to come up with the final decision. The ATT estimation result was indicates that participation in PSNP did not lead to a strong and significant effect on individual's household's asset building and practicing of SWC activities by the beneficiaries. Therefore, re-thinking or re-evaluating the program objectives at national, regional, and other operational levels is inevitable to actualize desired objectives.
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PSNP, impact, Propensity Score Matching, Households, Asset Building and SWC Activities, Southern Ethiopia