The IN-SCT pilot in Ethiopia integrated basic social services and cash transfers for 6000 households. It targeted the temporary direct support and public works components of the Productive Safety Net Program. Soft conditionalities encouraged pre- and post-natal care, behavior change communication sessions, immunizations, and other services. Additional "plus" components included behavior change communication by health extension workers, linkages to health and nutrition services, nutrition-sensitive agricultural activities, birth registration, and schooling. The program was delivered through the Ministries of Labor and Social Affairs, Agriculture, and Health with multi-sectoral coordination structures. An evaluation found increased linkages to basic services and mainstreaming of gender and social development and nutrition in the entire safety

1. Reflections from the Ethiopia Productive
Safety Net Program
Vincenzo Vinci
UNICEF Ethiopia, Social Policy Specialist

2. Social Protection: From Protection to Production
IN SCT: “Cash transfer” component
• The Improved Nutrition through Integrated Basic Social
Services and Social Cash Transfer (IN-SCT) is pilot is a 3-year
pilot within the umbrella of PSNP4 covering 6000 HHs
• Designed to promote integrated delivery of social services and
targets TDS and PDS component of PSNP
• Soft-conditionalities for Temporary Direct Clients to attend PNC
and ANC care, BCC sessions & for PWs to attend BCC sessions

3. IN SCT: “plus” component
What
• BCC sessions on ante & post natal care, child growth
monitoring, IYCF, immunization etc. by HEWs for TDS & PWs
• Linkage to Nutrition & Health services for TDS & PDS
• Nutrition sensitive agricultural activities for PW, TDS & PDS
• Birth registration for TDS & PDS
• Schooling for children of TDS & PDS
Why
• To make PSNP Nutrition sensitive
• These services are prioritized in Govt. Policies (SP Policy, NNP
& HSTP)
• Services that can be delivered at decentralized levels
• Improve access to basic services.

4. Social Protection: From Protection to Production
Institutional arrangements
• Programme delivered through MoLSA, MoANR
and MoH
• Multi-Sectoral Coordination structures exist at
all levels to support service delivery
• A Case Management MIS is developed to
facilitate linkage to social services
• DWG platform exists for regular updates on
the implementation & to facilitate scale up.

5. Social Protection: From Protection to Production
Evidence on IN SCT
• Robust Impact Evaluation
• Increased Linkages to Basic Services
• Enhanced Capacity of MoLSA to manage PDS
• GSD and Nutrition Mainstreamed in the entire PSNP
• Systems Strengthened and Institutionalized

6. Social Protection: From Protection to Production
Scale-up and Way forward
• Lessons & elements of IN SCT incorporated into new ISNP pilot interventions
and inform the PSNP5 design
• SNNPR currently scaling up the IN SCT activities to 3 more Woredas (fully
government funded)
• GSD trainings were implemented in all new CiNUS woredas in 2018 and PSNP
• SWs engagement related to effective case management of PDS and TDS
clients may become solid part of PSNP5 PIM
• Nutrition sensitive social protection and cash plus is part of the national
agenda and national social protection policy

7. Thank you !!!
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