This paper attempts to evaluate the contribution of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net rnProgram (PSNP) on household food security in general and the graduation process in rnparticular. The PSNP operates as a safety net, targeting transfers to poor households in two rnways, through public works (PW) and direct support (DS). The program is to provide food rninsecure people public work for five days a month pays 10 birr/day for their labor on labor intensive projects designed to build community assets during the agricultural slack season rnand thereby enable households to smooth consumption and prevent them from selling rnproductive assets to overcome food shortages. The public work is also intended to create rnvaluable public goods, and reduce seasonal liquidity constraints and thereby stimulate rninvestments. Direct support, in the form of cash transfers, is provided to labor-scarce rnhouseholds, including those whose primary income earners are elderly or disabled in order rnto maintain the safety net for the poorest households who cannot participate in public works. rnPrimary data was collected from 43clients of PSNP and 30 graduated households selected rnrandomly from three kebeles namely Dodicha, Warja Washgula and Bochessa from Adami rnTulu Jido Kombolcha woreda of Oromia National Regional State. Thirty two non-beneficiary rnhouseholds were selected purposively only from Dodicha kebele. The sustainable livelihood rnframework was adopted to identify the outcome of the program and food insecurity as rndisaster model is applied as theory to identify whether disaster was the cause of food rninsecurity or not. Household food insecurity access scale was used as a tool to measure the rnstatus of household food security. The study revealed that the PSNP is already having an rnimpact, that several important changes have taken place in terms of smoothening rnconsumption, asset protection, asset building. Households graduate from the PSNP when rnthey are able to fill the food gap they had prior to their entry to the program and have rnadditional resources to protect themselves from the modest shocks. The subjective assessment rnof the households' perception on food self sufficiency are not uniform throughout rnhouseholds. The concept of modest shock was not fully defined in the graduation guide note. rnUnless the definition is agreed or explicitly stated it is difficult to establish what level of rnresource equates to food sufficiency and graduation in general. The study identified that rnPSNP is showing positive trends to hit its objectives. However, PSNP on its own may not rnallow large numbers to graduate from food insecurity, unless it is combined with the other rnfo od security programs, and especially the extension packages, loans. The restructuring of rnOromia's Food Security Office institutional framework arrangement several times in rnmandate, structure, and scope in the recent years and rapid turnover of staff at Woreda level rnare big challenges which seeks immediate solution for the effective implementation of the rnprogram. In AT JK Woreda vast majority of rural households are heavily reliant on rain-fed rnagriculture and, hence any irregularity in weather conditions has adverse welfare rnimplications. The result suggests that, agricultural performance must improve if the food rnsecurity of the majority of A TJK 's Woredafarming households is to be enhanced. But more rnattention must be given to stabilizing yields, disseminating drought-resistant varieties to rnfarmers in this drought prone woreda, rather than high-yielding but riskier varieties and rnaccess to inputs must be provided on time and more reasonable terms.