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. 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 14.5 million people in 82 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 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.
Within its refreshed strategy for 2019-2023, LIFT has expanded its programming outside the scope of its traditional rural and agrarian focus. The Decent Work and Labour Mobility Programme has been established as one of four core thematic areas. The programme strategy is based on the achievement of three main outcomes: (1) Strengthened policies and legislation on labour and social protection, migration governance, anti-trafficking and skills development; (2) enhanced knowledge and capacity of stakeholders to support decent work, labour mobility and anti-trafficking; and (3) increased access to information, training and support services for women and men migrants and other vulnerable workers.
A Programme Manager is needed to provide technical leadership for the Decent Work and Labour Mobility programme, as well as supervise the work of the Decent Work and Labour Mobility team, which consists of 5 national staff members.