the hunger safety net programme (hsnp) past, present, future · overview 1. context: asals 2....
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Turkana, Marsabit, Mandera, Wajir NDMA
April 2014
THE HUNGER SAFETY NET PROGRAMME
(HSNP)
HUMANITARIAN PARTNERSHIP CONFERENCE, NAIROBI, 15TH
TO 18TH SEPTEMBER, 2014
SUNYA ORRE, DIRECTOR TECHNICAL SERVICES
NDMA KENYA
Overview
1. Context: ASALs
2. Objectives of HSNP
3. Phase 1: 2008-12/13
4. Results from Phase 1
5. Lessons on targeting
6. Phase 2: 2013-17
7. Expected results
8. Role of NDMA
9. Links to NSNP
10. Key issues going forwards
11. Questions?
Context: ASALs
1. ASALs: 84% of land mass;
36% of the population.
2. Chronic poverty, drought
prone & historically
marginalised.
3. Low scores against national
development indicators.
4. Integrated and dynamic
challenges.
Objectives of HSNP
HSNP is an unconditional cash transfer programme, geographically focused in the ASALs.
Aim: To reduce poverty, food insecurity and malnutrition, and promote asset retention and accumulation in poor HHs.
Uses biometric smart card to make payments via a private sector payment provider (Equity Phase 1).
Operated under Ministry of State for the Development of Northern Kenya and Other Arid Lands.
Financial support from DFID & AusAID.
4 counties: Turkana,
Marsabit, Mandera and
Wajir
Phase 1: 2008-12/13 (£40.5m)
Targets: 69,000 of the poorest HH or 496,800 of the poorest people in the 4 counties.
Beneficiaries receive regular, predictable cash transfers:
Currently Ksh 1,750 (approx. £13) per HH, per month (Ksh 3,500 every payment cycle).
HSNP 1: primarily a safety net for the chronically poor: with ability to scale up in emergencies (it increased payment value in the 2011 drought).
Phase 1: How implemented?
National and county coordination via the HSNP Secretariat under the Ministry of State for Northern Kenya and other Arid Lands.
5 components:
1. Administration: identification & registration of beneficiaries;
2. Management Information System: database of beneficiaries;
3. Payments: transfer of cash to beneficiaries;
4. M&E: monitoring & evaluation of results; and
5. Grievance procedures: feedback system for beneficiaries.
Enhanced drought
coping capacities
Increased food consumption &
dietary diversity Increased asset retention
Coping with disability Improving child welfare
Increased financial inclusion
in the ASALs: Starting a
business
How it makes a difference…
Economic empowerment for
women
Dignity for PWDs Help in old age (1)
Women as leaders Support to HIV + people Help in old age (2)
Reaching vulnerable groups…
Independently evaluated impacts
KEY MESSAGE:
HSNP is helping families to: be more food secure; hold onto their assets during shocks; and spend more on health. It is even enabling children to perform better in school. HSNP is successfully acting as safety net. It slows the slide into poverty, particularly in crisis years (e.g. drought 2011).
Mixed methods; Randomised Control Trials (2009-12)
Increased poverty reduction for HSNP HHs, compared to control group:
HSNP HHs are 10% less likely to fall into the poorest decile nationally.
Control HHs are 7% poorer on average than HSNP HHs.
The severity of poverty for control HHs is also more pronounced, to the tune of 7%.
Primary impacts: Poverty/consumption; Food security; Asset retention.
Secondary impacts: Increased health & education expenditure; Livelihoods opportunities; increased saving, borrowing, credit; reduced vulnerability to shocks; Empowerment of women; improved well-being of children and old persons.
Unintended impacts: Dependency (labour participation); Prices; Informal transfers; Social tensions; Mobility patterns.
Results after two years
Household poverty rates at baseline and follow-up 2 by
treatment status
HSNP: Lessons on targeting
Phase 1: piloted 3 approaches:
Community Based Targeting (CBT)
Social Pensions (SP)
Dependency Ratio (DR)
Findings : CBT best…but not perfect!
Proxy Means Test (PMT) more useful but not perfect!
Phase 2: will combine CBT & PMT and evaluate
the effectiveness of this approach.
HSNP: Phase 1 Key Challenges
GoK: Insecurity in ASALs; poor infrastructure network; lack of MoU; lack of a single registry
across CT programmes.
Beneficiaries: Mobile populations; missed payments; lack of ID cards; Sharing of the benefit
reducing its impact.
Administration (NGOs): Coordination of implementing partners and roles and responsibilities in
the field.
MIS: QA of data in and out; capacity to use and analyse.
Payments: Timeliness of payments; technology and technical skills of agents and beneficiaries.
M&E: Ethical issues on use of controls.
Grievance and redressal: Channels to direct complaints; scope of issues raised; and sustainability
of rights committees.
Donors: Coordination of components and partners; QA and ownership of data; QA of partner
communications.
Phase 2 : 2013/14-17 (£85.59m)
Builds on and expands Phase 1:
CHRONIC: Safety net for the chronically poor: By EoP, cash transfers for up
to 100,000HH (720,000 people) of approx. Ksh 2,700 or £19 a month paid
(5,400 per cycle) into beneficiaries bank account.
Women: approx. 52% women beneficiaries with 66% of beneficiary HHs
women headed.
ACUTE: Scalable safety net in response to crisis: 375,000 HH (reaching
approx. 2.1m people) will be carded and provided with bank accounts and
can be reached with emergency payments.
Impact: Reduce poverty, hunger and vulnerability for the poor in
Kenya’s Arid, Semi-Arid lands.
Outcome: Create better and more sustainable safety nets for poor
and vulnerable households, particularly for households in the ASALs.
Phase 2 : Expected results
Outputs:
GoK supports cash transfers for chronic and acute responses in the arid and semi-
arid lands, which are integrated within the wider National Safety Net
Programme; and
HSNP households receive timely, predictable electronic cash transfers for both
chronic and acute responses.
Key results by 2016/17:
Sustainability
Coverage and women beneficiaries
Poverty impact
Scalable safety nets for early crisis response
Relationship to NSNP
HSNP key to the delivery of NSNP results:
GoK funds HSNP in line with EDE MTP.
Targeting and expansion plans.
Strengthening MIS.
100% payments use 2 factor authentication.
Grievance & redressal mechanisms.
M&E.
Scalability.
ISSUES RAISED: NDMA
Lists of beneficiaries to receive accounts in the field
Operations manual update:
General HSNP 2
Scalability component
Complaints & Grievances Procedures Categorisation by county/ type
Reporting procedures & processes
Resolution procedures & processes (county/ central)
Clarifying R&R of diff stakeholders in the above
Reporting and M&E of on complaints received & resolved online
Training of NDMA staff
MIS use & analysis
C&G procedures
M&E
Scalability component
ISSUES RAISED: HAI
Contract discussions:
Beneficiary lists for working in the field – Sct approved list (PISP diff list?)
Staffing and capacity (HQ and field)
Support to the county technical working group/ NDMA in the field
R&G moving from paperbased MIS to electronic
Tracking and reporting on complaint resolution
ID issues and their resolution
Budget
Transition to the KHRC/ ombudsman role
Fiduciary risks with IPRS
ISSUES RAISED: FSD/ EB
Mop up of the group 1 pending accounts
List by sub-location & village by end of the week
Working with NDMA & HAI to mobilise
Will not be charged & accounts ongoing
Accounts opened cards in pocket 10%
Coordination of work plans
Communication
Complaints
IDs
275K HHs
Lessons learned
Explaining the targeting methodology
Verification of the final lists
Distribution of accurate beneficiary lists with EB
account holders
Beneficiary mobilisation
Route planning
HSNP2 2014-2017
Presented by:
HSNP2- PHASE 2 : 2013/14-17 BUDGET:
KSH.15BILLION.
Builds on and expands Phase 1: CHRONIC: Safety net for the chronically poor: By EoP, cash
transfers for up to 100,000HH (720,000 people) of approx. Ksh 2,700 or £19 a month paid (5,400 per cycle) into beneficiaries bank accounts.
Women: approx. 52% women beneficiaries with 66% of beneficiary HHs women headed.
ACUTE: Scalable safety net in response to crisis: 375,000 HH (reaching approx. 2.7m people) will be carded and provided with bank accounts and can be reached with emergency payments.
Impact: Reduce poverty, hunger and vulnerability for the poor in Kenya’s Arid, Semi-Arid lands.
Outcome: Create better and more sustainable safety nets for poor and vulnerable households, particularly for households in the ASALs.
HSNP2: EXPECTED RESULTS
Outputs:
GoK supports cash transfers for chronic and acute
responses in the arid and semi-arid lands, which are
integrated within the wider National Safety Net
Programme; and
HSNP households receive timely, predictable electronic
cash transfers for both chronic and acute responses.
Key results by 2016/17:
Sustainability
Coverage and women beneficiaries
Poverty impact
Scalable safety nets for early crisis response
THE IMPLEMENTING STRUCTURE- PILU
An internationally procured Project Implementation and
Learning Unit (PILU) within the National Drought
Management Authority (NDMA) and Accountable to CEO
NDMA and appropriately staffed with NDMA civil servants
and PILU TA team counterparts.
OBJECTIVES:
To ensure the effective management of HSNP 2 in conjunction with the National Drought Management Authority (NDMA).
To build capacity in GoK (NDMA) to implement HSNP 2 within its own structure by 2017
HSNP2 WITHIN THE NDMA
Board of Directors
CEO
Policy, Planning & Research
Resource Mobilisation &
Advocacy
Technical Services
HSNP2
Support Services
HUNGER SAFETY NET PROGRAMME N
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Programme Implementation & Learning Unit (HNSP)
County Drought Coordinators (NDMA)
County Coordinators & Sub-County Coordinators (HSNP)
Rights (HelpAge) Mobilisation,
Rights & Grievances
Payment Service Manager (FSD)
Payment Service Provider
Independent Evaluation
HSNP NATIONAL COORDINATION
Steering Committee
Quarterly
Chaired by NDMA CEO
Membership:
NDMA, DFID, PILU, FSD, HAI, NSNP, WB, DFAT
Technical Coordination Group
Weekly Chaired by PILU
Monthly
Chaired by Drought Response Manager
Membership:
NDMA, PILU, FSD, EB, HAI
Plus DFID
HSNP COUNTY COORDINATION COUNTY
COORDINATION
County Steering Group
Quarterly
Chaired by NDMA CDC
NDMA, EB, SPR/HAI, other
development partners
County Technical Coordination Group
Weekly
Chaired by CDC
HSNP County Coordinator
NDMA Drought Response Officer (DRO)
NDMA Drought Information (as needed)
SPR Partner County Coordinator
Equity Bank HSNP Supervisor/Branch Manager
PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION & LEARNING UNIT PILU Te
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er Operations
Manager
MIS Specialist
Monitoring Specialist
Coordinator Communications
Specialist
Finance Manager
Finance Officer
Project Administrator
ROLES OF PILU
Management and Monitoring of HSNP2, sourcing and procurement of short term Technical Assistance. This includes Working with GoK, DFID, in the oversight of Payment Component run by the Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Trust in Kenya.
Evaluation Component: Oversight of an independently and internationally procured and independently governed evaluation.
Rights and Grievances Component: Implemented by Help Age International (HAI)
TORS OF HSNP PILU STAFF
Team Leader oversees the PILU;
HSNP Coordinator provides liaison with NDMA and
other GoK agencies,
HSNP Operations Manager is responsible for
overseeing and managing core operational tasks at the
National level and manages HSNP County and Sub-
County Coordinators;
MIS Specialist manages the programme MIS and
provide technical support to the MIS across the
programme;
Monitoring Specialist oversees the monitoring of the
HSNP and is responsible for overseeing the evaluation of
the programme, which will be undertaken by a separate
Managing Contractor;
PILU TORS CONT’D
Communications Specialist oversees both internal
communications within the programme to HSNP2
target audience, to developing and implementing an
externally focused communications strategy;
Finance and Administration Team that provides
all necessary logistical and financial support to the
PILU;
Four County Coordinators who are responsible for
the implementation and coordination of the HSNP at
the County level- Turkana, Wajir, Marsabit and
Mandera.
Twelve Sub-County Coordinators will be
recruited across the four Programme Counties
ROLE OF THE NDMA
Oversight of implementation of HSNP &
PILU in NDMA
Ensuring GoK financing to HSNP (in line with
NSNP and EDE MTP)
Scalable safety net responses (HSNP and
National Drought Contingency Fund)
2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 TOTAL GoK contribution to
HSNP (million Kshs) 312 624 1,248 2,496 4,680
NDMA ROLE CONT…
Reaching targeted beneficiaries
Beneficiary mobilisation
Coordination (within & between County &
National)
Directing complaints to R&G component
Monitoring Project implementation with PILU
Monitoring officer
Financing (National and County)
Scalable safety net responses (HSNP & NDCF)
Communication
RELATIONSHIP WITH NSNP
HSNP key to the delivery of NSNP results:
o GoK funds HSNP in line with EDE MTP. HSNP works closely with NSNP in achieving set indicators (DLIs) under the Programme 4 Results (P4R);
o Targeting and expansion plans must be in line with NSPN’s.
o Strengthening MIS to improve fiduciary controls and monitoring. Single registry with programme MIS’s interlinked and agreed standards for payroll controls – setting the NSNP benchmark.
o 100% of payments being made through 2 factor authentication: bank card + biometrics.
o Grievance & redress: Functioning grievance and appeals mechanisms: provided via NGO HelpAge Intl.
o Monitoring: Regular and comprehensive Monitoring and reporting
o Scalability: Working to build scalable safety nets that can respond effectively to crises
HSNP2: ACHIEVEMENTS
Registration: 381,800HHs registered across the four Counties of Turkana, Marsabit, Mandera & Wajir. 374,806HH had complete data by June 2013.
Targeting: 100,000HHs already targeted across the four Counties using modified CRA formula to distribute across the Counties. PMT and CBT was used to distribute within the Counties by October 2013.
Posting and notification of HHs already taken place across the Counties by December 2013.
IDs of targeted 100,000 HHs already take through the IPRS for validation.
Bank A/C opening began in January 2014. So far 64,258 accounts have been opened in the four Counties. Target timeline of completion is December 2014.
Payment of cycles 7: Bank A/Cs of 61,854 beneficiaries have been credited with 7 cycle payments (arrears) totaling over Kshs. 2.011billion by 20th august 2014. Bi-monthly cash value increased from Kshs. 4,600 in 2013/14 to 4,900 in 2014/15.
HSNP2 ACHIEVEMENT CONT…
Social Protection rights:
Already recruited Rights Committees across all the Counties;
National ID registration strategy for HHs without already in place, to work with NRB
C&G resolution process developed and initiated
Governance
PILU staff both National and County recruited and already working
PILU office now housed at NDMA offices
o HSNP2 Operational Manual developed and training of staff taking place.
o Communication strategy and implementation plan in its final stage of completion
o Data Sharing Protocols developed and shared with INGOs
Q&A!