The Livelihoods and Food Security (LIFT) Fund is a multi-donor fund established ...
The Livelihoods and Food Security (LIFT) Fund is a multi-donor fund established in 2009 to address food insecurity and income poverty in Myanmar. LIFT 2019-2023 is funded by seven donors – the United Kingdom, the European Union, Australia, Switzerland, the United States, Canada and Ireland. The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) is the Fund Manager for LIFT, administrating the funds and providing monitoring and oversight services.
The overall goal of the LIFT Fund is to achieve a sustained reduction in the number of people living in hunger and poverty in Myanmar. LIFT strengthens the resilience and livelihoods of poor and vulnerable populations through interventions to raise income, decrease vulnerability, improve nutrition and support pro-poor policy development.
LIFT works with a broad range of implementing partners, including non-governmental organizations, United Nations agencies, the Government of Myanmar, the private sector, civil society, academic and research institutions. The Fund is active in the four main agro-ecological zones of Myanmar and to date has reached more than 11.6 million people or roughly 26 per cent of rural Myanmar’s population; and is active in two-thirds of the country’s townships. For more details visit www.lift-fund.org.
LIFT’s refreshed strategy for 2019-23 has at its heart ‘leaving no one behind’ in Myanmar’s rural transition, with a greater focus on inclusion and social cohesion, intensified commitment to gender equality and women's empowerment, increased geographical focus on ethnic/border states and conflict-affected areas, enhanced efforts to bring displaced persons and returnees into LIFT’s development programmes, expanded support for underserved urban and peri-urban areas and broader engagement with Government at all levels on targeted policies that achieve gains in these areas.https://www.lift-fund.org/lift-strategy-2019-2023
LIFT’s programme aims to lay the groundwork for and catalyse, where possible, inclusive, conflict sensitive, climate-resilient and sustainable development in the region that addresses food, nutrition and livelihood security of the most vulnerable.
The post will be located in the LIFT Fund Manager’s Office, a team of approx. 65 people organised in the following teams: programme, M&E, communications and support (contract and budget management). The incumbent will work within one of the LIFT Fund Management Office programme team with focus on the programme in conflict affected areas.