The Livelihoods and Food Security Fund (LIFT) is a multi-donor fund set up in 20...
The Livelihoods and Food Security Fund (LIFT) is a multi-donor fund set up in 2009, marking its ten-year anniversary in 2019. LIFT aims to strengthen the resilience and sustainable livelihoods of poor households by helping people to reach their full economic potential. This is achieved through increasing incomes, improving the nutrition of women and children, and decreasing vulnerabilities to shocks, stresses and adverse trends.
LIFT is a significant actor in Myanmar’s development. To date, of the most vulnerable people, roughly 38 per cent of Myanmar’s population have benefitted from LIFT’s programmes. From January 2019, LIFT has been guided by a new five-year strategy that puts ‘leaving no one behind’ at the centre and will in particular focus on social inclusion and cohesion, increased support to areas affected by conflict, bringing displaced people into LIFT’s development programmes and working with Government at all levels on targeted policies that achieve gains in these areas.
LIFT has received funding from altogether 16 international donors since it was established. The current donors are the UK, the European Union, Switzerland, Australia, the United States of America, Canada, New Zealand, Norway and Ireland. For more details, visit www.lift-fund.org.
The position will be located in the LIFT Fund Manager’s Office (FMO), which comprises of about 48 people organized in the following teams: programme, M&E, communications and operations. The M&E Officer will work within the programme teams under the supervision of the Monitoring and Evaluation Senior Manager and secondary supervision of the thematic program team leaders.
The MEAL system must be able to monitor the progress of individual projects funded by LIFT, assess the performance of geographic and thematic programmes comprised of multiple projects, as well as aggregate the data to monitor LIFT’s progress against its own logical framework and evaluate LIFT’s performance overall. LIFT’s MEAL system requires continuous development and refinement as new programmes are designed, implemented and assessed. As a member of the programme teams and the M&E team, the national M&E Officer will have the responsibility to support the programme teams in their M&E tasks and analysis of the data. The M and E Officer will be implementing the programme related parts of LIFT’s Monitoring and Evaluation for Accountability and Learning (MEAL) system. Currently, LIFT consists of five thematic programme areas namely, Agriculture, Food and Market Systems (AFMS), Financial Inclusion, Nutrition, Decent Work and Labour Mobility (DWLM) and Civil Society and Localisation. Priority will be given to candidates with strong background and experience in Nutrition and Agriculture, Food and Market Systems thematic areas.