UNOPS is the
Fund Manager for the multi-donor Livelihood and Food Security Trust Fund
(LIFT), which was established in 2009 to address food insecurity and income
poverty in Myanmar. LIFT’s donors are Australia, Denmark, the European Union,
France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden,
Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. From the
private sector, the Mitsubishi Corporation is a donor.
The overall
goal of LIFT is to sustainably reduce the number of people living in poverty
and hunger in Myanmar. LIFT’s purpose is to improve the incomes and nutrition
status of poor rural people by promoting resilient livelihoods and food
security. Its designated outcomes are improvements in income, resilience,
nutrition, and pro-poor policy developments.
LIFT works
with implementing partners (IPs), such as international NGOs, national NGOs,
United Nations agencies, international organisations, academic and research
institutions and the Government of Myanmar. LIFT is currently funding projects
at the Union level and in the Ayeyarwady Delta, the Dry Zone, Myanmar’s Uplands
and Rakhine State.
So far, LIFT
has reached over three million people, or roughly six per cent of Myanmar's
population, and is active in just under half of the country's townships. The
Fund is expected to continue operations until the end of 2018.
For more
details, please go to www.lift-fund.org
The position will be located
in the LIFT Fund Manager’s Office (FMO), which comprises of about 48 people
organized in the following teams: programme, M&E, communications and
operations. The M&E Officer will work under the
supervision of the International Monitoring and Evaluation Officer.
As a member of the M&E team, the national M&E
Officer will have the responsibility of implementing parts of LIFT’s Monitoring
and Evaluation for Accountability and Learning (MEAL) system. The MEAL system
must be able to monitor the progress of individual projects funded by LIFT,
assess the performance of geographic and thematic programmes comprised of multiple
projects, as well as aggregate the data to monitor LIFT’s progress against its
own logical framework and evaluate LIFT’s performance overall. LIFT’s MEAL system requires continuous
development and refinement as new programmes are designed, implemented and
assessed.