A Model for Social Protection in Africa? Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP), 11 June 2014 | Division for Inclusive Social Development (DISD)

Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) was introduced in 2005 to provide support to approximately eight million chronically food insecure people. Ever since, the programme has been promoted as a model of social protection, and has already been influential in the design of schemes in other African countries.

Tom Lavers is a Research Fellow at UNRISD. His research focuses on the political economy of social policy and agrarian transformation. In the seminar, he will draw on recent research published in the Journal of Modern African Studies to discuss:

• The PSNP and the root causes of poverty and food insecurity

• The government’s political motivations for pursuing the PSNP

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