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, having recently marked its ten-year anniversary. 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, over 11.6 million people in 75 per cent of Myanmar’s townships have benefitted from LIFT’s programmes. For 2019-2023, the third strategic phase of the fund, LIFT’s four thematic areas are Agriculture, Markets and Food Systems; Financial Inclusion; Decent Work and Labour Mobility and Nutrition. LIFT is guided by a five-year strategy that puts ‘leaving no one behind’ at the centre of its work, 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 15 donors since it was established. The current donors are the UK, the EU, Australia, Switzerland, the USA, Canada and Ireland.
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