Question

write case study for 'Food For Work Programme'

Answer 1

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Explanation:

The National Food for Work Programme(NFWP), 2004 was launched by minister of rural development, central government on 14 November 2004 in 150 of the most backward districts of India with the objective of generating supplementary wage employment. The programme is open for all Indian poor who are ready to do manual unskilled labour work and are in the need of wage employment. It is implemented as a centrally-sponsored scheme. Food grains are provided to the States free of cost. The transportation cost, handling charges, and taxes on food grains will, however, be the responsibility of the States. It has always been better to supply food grains free of cost instead of distributing money among them. The eligibility criteria were relaxed to provide for both below poverty line (BPL) and above poverty line (APL) families.[1]

Answer 2

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A systematic evaluation of food-for-work (FFW) programs in Ethiopia is seriously lack-

ing. Most of the few available reports indicate that these programs have reached very

few achievements in terms of food security and reduction of poverty at large. As ex-

pressed by Holden et al. (2005), FFW programs are commonly aimed to produce or

maintain potentially valuable public goods necessary to stimulate productivity and thus

income growth. Natural resources management, like rural road construction, erosion

control and afforestation of degraded lands can be mentioned as valuable measures

which could stimulate productivity and agricultural growth. The poverty reduction and

food security impact of food or cash for work activities are larger if they offer not only

seasonal job opportunities to the rural community but also long term employment pos-

sibilities. This is more likely if the projects are regionally dispersed and combined with

basic education. In the Ethiopian context, it was always questionable if the continuous

boom in food aid (regardless of cash or food for work purposes) was the solution for the

long standing food insecurity and poverty crises in the country. The study discusses the

efficiency of FFW programs that aimed to reduce rural poverty and ensure food security

on the one hand, and the impact of the food aid on resource and time allocation of the

participating households for own food production on the other. The study is based on

a field research conducted at a FFW program project, in the Amhara region, Ethiopia

run by the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) with the view of improving

food security in the Amhara region, Ethiopia. A household theoretical model is used

to analyze the sample data, whether FFW program may indeed reduce household food

insecurity and/or has some crowding-out effects on labour allocation of participating

households for own field production.

Keywords: Ethiopia, Amhara, GTZ, food for work program, poverty, food security,