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Self-Resiliency Study Working Group

This working group formed around the need for further research into the implementation experience of Safety Net programming in Ethiopia, particularly relating to NGO / GoE coordination and addressing issues surrounding “graduation criteria” for Safety Net beneficiaries. The Working Group designed a study ToR through extensive consultations with sector stakeholders and began work in January 2007. The study was headed by CHF – Partners, with admin/logistics support from the CANGO secretariat. The study was generously funded by:

• The Royal Netherlands Embassy,
• The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), and
• The Department for International Development (DFID)

Drawing from CANGO’s collective experience in the field, the overarching aim of this study was to contribute to policy dialogue on how practical, grassroots-level livelihoods programming can maximize the synergies available from horizontal linkages with GoE development efforts under the FSP and PSNP.

The purpose of the study was to strengthen insights into how best to graduate the chronically food insecure into a state of self-resiliency, both at household and community levels.

Using a sustainable livelihoods approach, this study searched to define a “self-resiliency threshold” for different livelihood categories of the chronically food insecure, with recommendations on the “package of inputs”, i.e different livelihood strategies and interventions that, while building upon and complementing the activities of the GoE PSNP, enable communities and households to achieve self-resiliency.

From the study’s results, the CANGO consortium now has guidance on how to improve implementation practices and can construct and strategise a model programme employing a sustainable livelihoods approach which, while complementing the federal FSP and PSNP, aims to lift vulnerable communities and HHs to ‘self resiliency’.

(1) Self-Resiliency_Summary of Findings
[PDF file, Size: 192 KB]

(2) Self-Resiliency Report - CANGO-CHF (08.08.07)
[PDF file, Size: 1.4 MB]

(3) Vol_2 Regional Report
[PDF file, Size: 1.01 MB]

(4) Self-Resiliency_Vol.3_Annexes
[PDF file, Size: 2.31 MB]

(5) Self-Resiliency_Vol.4_Literature Review
[PDF file, Size: 1.63 MB]