UNOPS
is the Fund Manager for the Livelihoods and Food Security Trust Fund (LIFT...
UNOPS
is the Fund Manager for the Livelihoods and Food Security Trust Fund (LIFT) in
Myanmar. LIFT is a multi-donor fund (2010 – 2018) to address food insecurity
and income poverty in Myanmar. The Donor Consortium of LIFT comprises
Australia, Denmark, the European Union, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand,
Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The
overall objective of LIFT is to contribute resources to a livelihoods and food
security programme with the aim of
making progress towards the achievement of Millennium Development Goal 1 (the
eradication of extreme poverty and hunger) in Myanmar. Working through a trust
fund modality, LIFT’s purpose is to sustainably increase food availability and
incomes of two million target beneficiaries.
This
is to be achieved through delivering the following programme outputs:
1. Increased agricultural production and incomes
supported through improved production and postharvest technologies, improved
access to inputs and markets.
2. Targeted households supported in
nonagricultural livelihood activities and/or trained in livelihood skills for
employment.
3. Effective social protection measures supported
that increase the incomes, enhance the livelihood opportunities or protect the
livelihoods assets of chronically poor households.
4. Sustainable natural resource management and
environmental rehabilitation supported to protect local livelihoods.
5. Capacity
of civil society strengthened to support and promote food and livelihoods
security for the poor.
6. Monitoring and evaluation evidence and
commissioned studies used to inform programme and policy development.
And the following management outputs:
7. Fund allocated in ilne with Fund Board policies and are accounted for in a transparent manner.
8. Fund flow and partner performance monitored and evaluated.
LIFT
is implemented through a variety of local implementing partners (IPs) who were
successful in submitting proposals that supported the LIFT purpose in the areas
targeted.