Network Paper 27: Between Relief and Development

Author(s)
Sharp, K.
Publication language
English
Pages
24pp
Date published
01 Sep 1998
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Development & humanitarian aid, Disaster preparedness, resilience and risk reduction, Food and nutrition, Food security, National & regional actors, National Disaster Management Authority, Targeting, Identification and Profiling
Countries
Ethiopia
Organisations
ODI
The paper focuses on the question of how food aid can best be targeted to the neediest households in food-insecure areas, particularly in the context of the 1993 National Policy on Disaster Prevention and Management (NPDPM) and its central strategy of channelling relief food through employment generation schemes (EGS) in place of general free distributions.
The debate on household-level targeting of such schemes has centred on the choice between
self-targeting and administrative / community targeting.