Ethiopia/ Productive Safety Net Programme 2021-2025 (Phase V) Project Implementation Manual (PIM) Ministry of Agriculture, Addis Ababa, 2021

This is the Programme Implementation Manual (PIM) for PSNP 5 of the Government of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP). The PIM is the final source of guidance on programme concepts, objectives, principles and procedures.

The PIM is prepared on the basis of the PSNP design described in the Project Appraisal Document (PAD) and the Government Design Document, and in accordance with the Financing Agreement (FA) between the Federal Republic of Ethiopia and the International Development Association (IDA).

The PIM reflects the new design of the PSNP as it is described in the Design Document of the GOE and the PAD of the project “Strengthen Ethiopia’s Adaptive Safety Net Project” (SEASN), and as captured in the FA.

Whereas the PAD is organized around “components” or “subcomponents”, and the Design Document of the GOE is organized around “outputs”, the PIM is organized around main groups of operational procedures (sometimes referred to as “sub-programmes” or “programmes” in the PIM). The Management information System (MIS) modules also reflect this organisation around operational processes.

Each of these sub-programmes have their own criteria and process to select beneficiaries, type and level of benefits, conditionalities attached to the benefits, entry and exit procedures, etc. They may have relations between them, but they are operationally distinct.

According to this definition, the PSNP has 5 sub-programmes:

• Public Works (PW)

• Temporary Direct Support (TSD)

• Permanent Direct Support (PDS)

• Livelihoods Services, and

• Shock Responsiveness.