UNOPS is the Fund Manager for the multi-donor Livelihood and Food Security Trust...
UNOPS is the Fund Manager for the multi-donor Livelihood and Food Security Trust Fund (LIFT) established in Myanmar in 2009. The donors are Australia, Denmark, the European Union, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. From the private sector, the Mitsubishi Corporation is a donor.
LIFT’s vision is to be a collective and influential voice for innovation and learning, and to provide a platform for enhanced policy engagement on sustainable agriculture, food security and rural development. LIFT’s goal is to contribute to sustainably reduce the number of people in Myanmar living in poverty and hunger. LIFT’s purpose is to increase livelihoods' resilience and nutrition of poor people in Myanmar by focusing on interventions that increase income, food availability, utilization and stability of access to food.
LIFT works towards achieving four main programme outcomes:
1) Increased incomes of rural households.
2) Increased resilience of poor rural households and communities to shocks, stresses and adverse trends.
3) Improved nutrition of women, men and children.
4) Improved policies and effective public expenditure for pro-poor rural development.
The Fund is expected to continue operations until at least the end of 2018. So far, LIFT has reached over three million people, or around six per cent of the country’s population.
LIFT works with implementing partners (IPs), who are international NGOs, national NGOs, United Nations agencies, international organisations (CGIAR, IFIs), academic and research institutions, the private sector and the Government of Myanmar. Read more about LIFT on www.lift-fund.org.