The produclive safety net provides transfers 10 food insecure populations of thernShashogo Woredo and through which the program intended prevents asset depletionrnat the household level, creates assets at the community level. Evaluating the outcomernIhal such programs thought to bring to the beneficiaries has vilal role in making thernprograms effective and the communities to benefit more from. To this end, thernpurposes of this study were to assess the effect of PSNP on the prevention of assetrnfrom depletion and creation of asset in household level. The study also assessed therntargeting process that has been undertaken to select eligible beneficiaries the studyrnkebeles. The study was designed to collect both qualitative and quantitative data fromrnrandomly selected 102 PSNP households. The findings of this research revealed thatrnPSNP has brought significant improvement in households ' food consumplion and inrnprotecting assets of the beneficiaries form depletion. The result indicated that PSNPrnbeneficiOlY households were able to narrow their food gap from six month to threernmonths on average. Moreover, most households who participated in PW and DSrnreporled that they were able to achieve to maintain their assets, and jill'ther enabledrnthem to create additional asselS. In this regard, Ihe sample households have shownrnimprovement in the number of livestock resource they owned. It was also reportedrnIhal PSNP benefiCiaries that participated in PW and DS program were used tornsharing and renting out their farmlands to olher farmers before the slart oflhe PSNP.rnBut after they started to receive the benefits of PSNP, they were able to plow theirrnland by themselves and harvest agricultural outputs for family consumption. Withrnrespecl to the outcome of PSNP in social infrastructure and human reso urce, thernsludy found thaI not only the PSNP households, bllt also other households in the studyrnkebeles were benefited a lot. This has been achieved through Iremendousrnimprovement in social infrastructure such as construction of schools, health post;rnfarmers training centers are likely to improve the human resource in the study kebele.rnGenerally; the overall outcomes of the program were to be promising. However, therernwere challenges that hinder the program to allainjidly its objectives.