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Evaluation of Social Safety Nets Program (Food Aid and Cash Assistance Program)

Evaluation of Social Safety Nets Program (Food Aid and Cash Assistance Program), Support to the Special Hardship Case (SHC) -Program Reform.

Country: 

Ramallah, Jerusalem- West Bank, and Gaza strip.

 Amman- Jordan.

Date:  

2009-2009

Client:

UNRWA,European Commission

Project background:

The relief and social services) social safety-net program (is the only program that caters to the needs of the most vulnerable Palestine refugees by delivering food aid and cash subsidies on a regular basis. The overall goal of this program was to alleviate poverty amongst Palestine refugee families in UNRWA’s fields of operation with priority focus on the poorest of the poor "object poor". The social safety-net was delivered food from 58 fixed and 126 mobile distribution points, and around 275,000 Palestine refugees from over 73,000 families benefited from this program.

The main objectives of this program were to provide basic food supplies and cash subsidies to the most vulnerable Palestine refugees considered to be caught in a cycle of abject poverty, provide selective cash assistance such as one-off cash grants or basic household items in the instance of fire, flood, sudden death of a family breadwinner or other family emergency, and ensure that Palestine refugee families have adequate shelter.

The project objective:

This evaluation study was came to analyze the support of 2007/2008/2009 years to SHC program according to the main criteria of EC evaluation standards (relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability), and in light of the recommendations made by the previous evaluation conducted in  2005. The e overall objective of this evaluation was to contribute to the improvement of future EC-funded- UNRWA programs dedicated to support SHC through providing a set of efficient recommendations.