The Livelihoods and Food Security Trust Fund
(LIFT) is a multi-donor fund establ...
The Livelihoods and Food Security Trust Fund
(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.
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 strengthen the resilience and sustainable livelihoods of poor
people in Myanmar. LIFT’s purpose-level outcomes are increased income,
decreased vulnerability, improved nutrition, and pro-poor policy developments.
LIFT works with implementing partners that
include international and national non-government organisations, United Nations
agencies, the Government of Myanmar, private sector organisations, and academic
and research institutions.
LIFT is active in the four main
agro-ecological zones of Myanmar: the Ayeyarwady Delta, the coastal region of
Rakhine State, the central dry zone (including Mandalay, Magway and the
southern Sagaing region), and the upland areas of Chin, Kachin, Kayah, Kayin
and Shan States and Tanintharyi Region.
So far, LIFT has reached more than 7.2 million
people, or roughly 20 per cent of rural Myanmar’s population; and is active in
almost half the country’s townships. LIFT is funding projects through to June
2019. For more details visit www.lift-fund.org.