Send message to Author

Paper long abstract

This research examines the efficiency of foreign aid in alleviating food insecurity among Palestinian households, emphasizing heterogeneous outcomes of food security groups and heterogeneous population groups. This analysis estimates the effect of assistance on household food security transition and considers the targeting that humanitarian actors implement based on the results from the Food Security (SEFSec) survey (2018 and 2020), and through the propensity score matching. Evidently shown from the time comparison, there have been significant changes in both targeting and results over a timeframe defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, limiting occupation policies, and deteriorating economic conditions. Findings in 2018 show that assistance benefited food-secure and marginally insecure households but hindered moderate and severely food-insecure populations. By the year 2020, these adverse effects particularly worsened in Gaza, and the previous positive effects vanished. The results challenge traditional beliefs on aid efficacy and highlight the importance of context-sensitive and programmatic adaptive strategies.