This document summarizes learnings from missions by GDC to Ethiopia, Cambodia, and Malawi on how social protection programs can benefit food and nutrition security. Key findings include: 1) Social protection programs can impact food access and other determinants of nutrition if designed sensitively; 2) They can form the cornerstone of national food and nutrition policies; 3) They provide an alternative to recurrent emergency aid if made shock-responsive. The document outlines options for strengthening programs in each country, such as improving cross-sectoral cooperation in Ethiopia's PSNP or increasing the nutritional impact of Malawi's social cash transfer program.

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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 INTAKE
Food Use
POLICIES, HUMAN RIGHTS,
INFRASTRUCTURE, GENDER…
AVAILABILITY & ACCESS TO
FOOD
HEALTH
HYGIENE
WATER
CARE
HEALTH STATUS
Food utilization
STABILITY
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
DesignPlatform

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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
Source:Worldbank

14. Cambodia
World Bank CCT
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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
Source:Worldbank

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