Monitoring COVID-19 Impacts on Households in Ethiopia, Report No. 6

Ambel, Alemayehu A.; Bundervoet, Tom; Tsegay, Asmelash Haile; Wieser, Christina

doi:10.1596/34800

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“…First, the HFPS sample represents only those households with access to phones. 27 While 90% of households in urban Ethiopia have access to phones, only 40% of rural households own a phone. There is a systematic difference between the households who own phones and those who do not own phones in terms of total consumption expenditure.…”

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Coverage of social assistance in Ethiopia during the COVID-19 pandemic: a time-to-event analysis

Deshpande

Mulat²,

Mao

et al. 2022

BMJ Glob Health

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ObjectiveIn a pandemic, government assistance is essential to support the most vulnerable households as they face health and economic challenges. However, government assistance is effective only when it reaches vulnerable households in time. In this paper, we estimated the timeliness of government assistance for the most vulnerable households (ie, the poor households) in Ethiopia during its COVID-19 response of 2020. In particular, we conducted a time-to-event analysis to compare the time to receive government assistance between poor and non-poor households in Ethiopia.MethodsWe used a semiparametric Cox proportional model to evaluate whether the time to first receipt of government assistance during the COVID-19 response in 2020 differed between poor and non-poor Ethiopian households. We used the Schoenfeld test to check the proportionality assumption and conducted the stratified Cox regression analysis to adjust for non-proportional variables. The data from World Bank’s High-Frequency Phone Surveys on COVID-19 and the 2019 Ethiopian Socioeconomic Survey were used for this analysis.ResultsWe found that the poor households in rural areas were 88% (HR: 1.88; 95% CI: 1.19 to 2.98) more likely to receive government assistance than non-poor households at any point within 10 months after the start of the pandemic. However, there was no significant difference between urban poor and non-poor households’ likelihood of receiving government assistance during this timeframe.ConclusionThe Ethiopian government has leveraged its existing social protection network to quickly reach poor households in rural areas during the COVID-19 response of 2020. The country will need to continue strengthening and scaling the existing social protection systems to accurately target the wider vulnerable population in urban areas.

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confidence: 99%

“…There are limitations to our study. First, the HFPS sample represents only those households with access to phones 27. While 90% of households in urban Ethiopia have access to phones, only 40% of rural households own a phone.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%