Determinants Of Psnp Participation & Its Impact On Households' Asset Building, Income And Resilience To Shocks: The Case Of Rural Households Of Deder Woreda

PSNP is aimed to bring a significant change to the needs of food insecure households and create<br> productive investments to strengthen rural economic growth. The objective of this study was to<br> assess the impact of PSNP on households<br> ’ asset building, income and resilience to shocks at Deder<br> district, East Hararghe zone, Oromia regional state of Ethiopia. Cross-sectional data of 160 sample<br> households from beneficiaries and 160 sample households from non-beneficiaries groups were<br> gathered. A propensity score matching method was used to assess the impact of the program on<br> outcome variables. About seventeen variables were hypothesized to explain in factors affecting<br> participation in PSNP. The propensity score estimation model result indicated that, program<br> participation were found to be statistically significant with five variables ( family size, frequency of<br> development agent visit, sex household head and labor force of the households), while the remaining<br> were less significant in explaining the variation in the dependent variable. Though, the impact of<br> PSNP found to be insignificant effect on individual households’ asset building, income and<br> resilience to shocks in the study area, we could not deny that the estimated ATT shows an increment<br> for the beneficiaries of PSNP and there is a slight difference between the two groups in terms of the<br> outcome variables which is positively pronounced towards the beneficiary group of PSNP. It is<br> advisable to conduct intensive researches in this area at all level with that to get a new and strategic<br> ways to address the needs of the most marginalized and bring a significant scenario of resilience<br> together with a creditable multidimensional change