Background Information-LIFT
The
Livelihoods and Food Security Fund (LIFT) is a ...
Background Information-LIFT
The
Livelihoods and Food Security Fund (LIFT) is a multi-donor fund set up in 2009,
marking its ten-year anniversary this year. 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.
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 15 international donors since it was
established. The current donors are the UK, the EU, Australia, Switzerland, the
US, Canada and Ireland. For
more details, please go to www.lift-fund.org.
Background Information to Position
Under the new programme 2019-2023, LIFT launched the
Call for proposals for Kachin and Northern Shan state “Nutrition and decent work programmes benefitting vulnerable households
in IDP camps and host communities in Kachin and northern Shan States”.
(https://www.lift-fund.org/sites/lift-fund.org/files/uploads/Uplands/).
Under the Call, LIFT has selected
proposals from qualified organisations and entities that focus on reducing
poverty and vulnerability of IDPs and host communities affected by conflict in
Kachin and Northern Shan States. These outcomes will be achieved through
improved nutrition, enhanced vocational skills, safe migration and
counter-trafficking and access to productive assets (including land) as well as
to financial services that support increased livelihood options and future
human productivity.
LIFT considers the independent LIFT-funded
projects in Kachin and Northern Shan to be part of a coherent programme,
referred to as the Kachin and Northern Shan Programme. The overall objectives
of the role of Coordinators are to:
- Maximize
the synergies between the LIFT-funded projects in the two states
- Generate
learning for the LIFT Fund from these projects
- Assist
the LIFT teams to monitor the progress of activities against the Kachin and
Northern Shan Programme framework
- Continuously
engage with government, non-government actors, stakeholders and IPs to support
the implementation of the Programme