Gaby Guerrero Chief Social Policy, UNICEF Ethiopia

1. Reflections from Fiavota Emergency
and Recovery Program in
Madagascar
Gaby Guerrero Serdan
Chief Social Policy, UNICEF Ethiopia

2. Aspects opérationnels: programme national de filets
sociaux pour répondre aux crises
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Context
▪ 92% Monetary poverty
▪ 75% food poverty
▪ 50 % children are chronically
malnourished
▪ Political crises, climate change
and natural hazards

3. Social Protection: From Protection to Production
Maximizing impacts: humanitarian-
development nexus
• Extension of national social protection
system to respond to emergencies
(vertical and horizontal)
• Programmes adapted to reinforce
resilience and respond to their
multiple needs
• Coordination between development
and humanitarian partners
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4. Social Protection: From Protection to Production
Cash plus components in
emergency and recovery phases
• Fiavota: Doubled the caseload to
response to drought’s effects: malnutrition,
food insecurity, loss of livelihoods
• Partners: Government; WB; UNICEF
• Cash: monthly transfers + lump-sump
twice a year
• Evaluation: quali &quasi-experimental
Cash Livelihoods
Nutrition C4D

5. Social Protection: From Protection to Production
Mid-term evaluation results
• Food Consumption + +
• Non-food Consumption + +
• Agricultural production +
• Livestock production +
• Resilience +

6. Social Protection: From Protection to Production
Mid-term evaluation results
• Housing: latrines + soap +light +
• Education +++
• Health ++
• Nutrition: + ?
• Subjective well-being +
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7. Social Protection: From Protection to Production
Final reflections on Cash Plus
approaches
• Soft aspects: Gender, participation
and accountability
• Nutrition and place payments
• Combination of cash, livelihoods grant
and accompanying measures
• No magic bullet exists!
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8. Thank you !!!
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