LIFT is a multi-donor fund established in 2009 to
address food insecurity and in...
LIFT is a multi-donor fund established in 2009 to
address food insecurity and income poverty in Myanmar. LIFT has received
funding from 14 donors – the United Kingdom, the European Union, Australia,
Switzerland, Denmark, the United States, the Netherlands, Sweden, France,
Luxembourg, Italy, New Zealand, Ireland and Mitsubishi Corporation. The United
Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) is the Fund Manager to administer
the funds and provide monitoring and oversight. LIFT’s designated outcomes are
improvements in income, resilience, nutrition, and pro-poor policy
developments. So far, LIFT has reached more than 7.2 million people, or roughly
20 per cent of Myanmar’s population; and is active in almost half the country’s
townships. LIFT will be funding projects through June 2023. For more details
visit www.lift-fund.org.
LIFT has had considerable
success informing and influencing government policy pertaining to a wide range
of thematic and programming priorities, and has generally relied on
implementing partners (e.g., NGOs, UN organizations) and strategic partners (Civil
Society Organizations) to pursue priority policy objectives with relevant
government stakeholders.
LIFT is currently
preparing a strategy to guide a new phase of programming for the period
2019-2023. Comprised of four key pillars: Nutrition, Agriculture and Rural
Markets, Financial Inclusion, and Decent Work and Labor Mobility, a key
component is a framework to provide a more comprehensive and coordinated orientation
to LIFT’s policy engagement, increasing and strengthening LIFT’s policy
presence in Nay Pyi Taw.
A highly motivated Myanmar
national Policy Officer based in Nay Pyi Taw, supported and complemented by
LIFT Policy Unit in Yangon, will help LIFT achieve its strategic policy
objectives.