The Role of Productive safety Net Program on Improving The livelihood of Beneficiary Households in Kimbibit District of North Shoa zone, Oromia Region State,Ethiopia.

Abstract

This research assessed the role of productive safety net program on Improving The livelihood of Beneficiary Households in Kimbibit District of North Shoa zone, Oromia Region State,Ethiopia. The purpose of this study was to investigate the practices, challenges, and opportunities of productive safety net program implementation for improving the livelihood of program beneficiaries in Kimbibit Woreda, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia. To explain this, the concurrent triangulation mixed research method is applied. The study employed both primary and secondary data. Primary data was collected from 134 productive safety net beneficiary household heads selected randomly. Moreover, key informant interviews, focus group discussions, and field observation were conducted to explain the practices, challenges, and opportunities of the program. The quantitative techniques used for data analysis are simple descriptive statistics (percentage, frequencies, mean, and standard deviation). The study results indicate that 55.97% of PSNP beneficiary households are male-headed and 44.03% are female-headed. The result of the descriptive statistics showed that, PSNP beneficiaries in terms of family size, credit access, educational level, training access, use of financial institutions and saving practices Challenges to the effectiveness of the program are: no graduation, weak appeal management, insufficient quotas that lead to unfairness, inclusion of non-poor but exclusion of poor, small transfer amounts and a lack of full family targeting. Based on the findings, the study recommends that participants in the PSNP program should encourage practices such as including all family members, increasing the transfer of payments, loan access, income-generating activities, and participating in other food security programs for the creation of assets.