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Agriculture Meets Social Protection:

How can food and nutrition security benefit?

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Eschborn, 7. Juli 2016

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Learnings, Trends & Conclusions for GDC

from 3 Missions on Food & Nutrition Security and Social Protection

(Ethiopia, Cambodia & Malawi)

What did we learn from our

missions?

Elke Kasmann, Martina Kress, Ines Reinhard, Annette Roth

Brown Bag Lunch, July 7th, 2016, Eschborn

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HOUSEHOLD &

COMMUNITY

FOOD AND NUTRITION

SECURITY

adequate nutritional status

FOOD INTAKEFood Use

POLICIES, HUMAN RIGHTS,

INFRASTRUCTURE, GENDER…

AVAILABILITY & ACCESS TO

FOOD

HEALTH

HYGIENE

WATER

CARE

HEALTH STATUSFood utilization

STA

BIL

ITY

EDUCATION

INDIVIDUAL

GLOBAL /

NATIONAL

How does Social Protection impact on

Food & Nutrition Security?

HEALTH

HYGIENE

WATER

CAREAVAILABILITY & ACCESS

TO FOOD

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Nutrition Sensitive Features

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adequate benefit level

food baskets that include nutritious foods (e.g. pulses)

lighter worksload in public works for women (e.g. only 50%)

exemption of pregnant women from public works

obligation (until 1 year after birth)

public works used to build homestead gardens,

water reservoirs for female headed households

public works to build school gardens, latrines,

wells, health centers & schools

behaviour change communication as co-responsibility (nutrition, WASH,

infant care, etc.)

attendance of health service as co-responsibility for pregnant women

Desig

nP

latf

orm

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Alternative to Recurrent

Emergency Aid

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„PSNP has saved lives AND livelihoods“Ato Dejene Abesha, RED-FS Secretariat,

Ethiopia

• Regular public works & direct transfers for about 8 Mio people

• Operates in chronically food insecure areas, since 2005

• ‚productive effects‘: infrastructure built – along SLM manuals

• Linked to early warning system & contingency planning of disaster risk

mangement institutions

• Front loaded with contingency funds – ‚risk financing mechanism‘

• Can release funds much earlier than humanitarian system: 6 weeks vs. 13

months in 2011

• Can scale up: from 6,5 to 9,6 Mio people in 2011

• GDC channeled funds through PSNP after El Ninjo droughts this year

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Learnings & Trends for Social Protection in FNS

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Impact on Access to Food

& other Determinants!

Nutrition-sensitive Features

Cornerstone of national FNS

Policies

Alternative to recurrent

Emergency Aid

Graduation –Combination with

other Services

complex cross sectoral

Programmes Challenge is Implementation !

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Conclusions & Opportunities for GDC

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Capacity strengthening in high demand• Implementation arrangements for cross sectoral cooperation

• focus on ‚soft skills‘: staff & knowledge management, joint learning methods, extension practices, leadership

Broad impacts

• many people, big target groups

• focus on poorest 10%

Visible results, easy to communicate

• infrastructure built

• tangible effects on poor people‘s everyday living

Combination with financial assistance

• welcomed

• charming

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Let‘s move forward!

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Using social protection schemes for food

and nutrition security

Approaches

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Options

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Reenforce Cash Transfer and Public Works Programmes

• Quality of core functions of social protection programmes

• Nutrition sensitive features

• Graduation mechanisms (on farm, off-farm, employment)

• Quality of infrastructures (soil and water conservation and rehabilitation)

Strengthening school feeding programmes for better nutrition

• Linkages to nutrition sensitive and nutrition specific interventions

• Structured demand solutions (e.g. home grown school feeding)

Making Social Protection programmes shock responsive-improve resilience

• Scaling up

• Linkage to early warning and disaster risk management

• Front loading with emergency funds

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Options in Ethiopia

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(1) Making cross-sectoral cooperation become reality in PSNP

Forging cross sectoral arragements and dynamising existing structures for multi-

sectoral cooperation and coordination at various level

Support for dissimination of innovative technical solutions (nutrition senstitive

agriculture, nutrition education)

Human and institutional capacity development

(2) Strengthening the implementation of PSNP in Afar and Somali Region

Capacity strenghthening for adaption of design and implementation to local

environment and necessities of the pastoralists

Strengthening of service provider (health, agriculture, employment) and link

services to PSNP clients

Strengthening cross-sectoral coordination and cooperation at different levels

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Malawi

(1) Nutrition-sensitive design of School Meal Programmes

Increase meal quality through diversified production (HGSM)

Up-scaling approaches for improved micronutrient supply (Moringa, sprinkles)

BCC on nutritional and hygiene practices

Facilitation of staple food purchase from surrounding

communites (structured demand)

(2) Increase nutritional impact of Social Cash Transfer Programme

Increase transfer level and technical support

Integrate nutrition-related criteria into the targeting approach

Link SCT beneficiaries to services- health (growth monitoring, immunisation, deworming, micronutrient supply, BCC etc.)

- agriculture: FBS „farming as a business“

- finance/savings: more systematic transfer to VSL groups

Incorporate nutrition and health messages into e-payment systems

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Cambodia

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(1) Supporting Lessons Learning for Nutrition-Sensitive Cash

Transfer Design

Analyse existing cash transfer pilots, focusing on learnings for

adequate nutrition features

Foster an inclusive dialogue about design options of a new national

cash transfer programme with special attention to nutrition

outcomes

(2) Supporting the Development and Implementation of the

National Social Protection Strategy

Continue advisory work for Ministry of Finance on social protection

strategy and implementation issues

Forge a new programme to support implementation of national

cash transfer programme on a broad scale with a focus on nutrition

Sourc

e: W

orldbank

Cambodia

World Bank CCT

26.07.2016

(1) Supporting Lessons Learning for Nutrition-Sensitive Cash

Transfer Design

Analyse existing cash transfer pilots, focusing on learnings for

adequate nutrition features

Foster an inclusive dialogue about design options of a new national

cash transfer programme with special attention to nutrition

outcomes

(2) Supporting the Development and Implementation of the

National Social Protection Strategy

Continue advisory work for Ministry of Finance on social protection

strategy and implementation issues

Forge a new programme to support implementation of national

cash transfer programme on a broad scale with a focus on nutrition

Sourc

e: W

orldbank

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Thank you!