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, 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.
Purpose and Scope of Assignment
LIFT conducts annual household surveys which serve as one of the primary the tools for reporting on a broad range of LIFT logframe indicators. The survey also provides a broad overview of socio-economic and nutrition related developments in LIFT core program areas as well as in financial inclusion areas. The HH Surveys incorporates all LIFT thematic areas including nutrition, income, livelihoods, financial inclusion and agriculture. It is both national and geographically representative of LIFT implementation areas. Regionally, the survey covers four agro-ecological regions which LIFT currently supports, namely the Ayarwaddy Delta, the central Dry Zone (including Mandalay, Magway and the southern Sagaing region), the coastal region of Rakhine State, and the upland areas of Chin, Kachin, Kayah, Kayin and Shan States and Tanintharyi Region. The total sample size ranges from 5,000 -10,000 households.
In addition, as part of the roll out of the refreshed LIFT MEAL framework for the new strategy period (2019-23) LIFT anticipates a number of regional, programme and thematic surveys that will be undertaken to measure the impact of different components of the program. Most of these surveys will adopt either experimental or quasi-experimental designs. Reports emanating from the foregoing surveys/studies constitute a key element of LIFT’s accountability to its funding partners and other key stakeholders including the beneficiaries and Union Government of Myanmar. For this reason, LIFT is keen to ensure that all the surveys are anchored on sound methodological foundation.
In anticipation of multiple requirements for developing study designs for the various surveys, LIFT is seeking a M&E Specialist (Sampling Statistician). The position holder will be responsible for providing overall technical expertise in the area of statistical design of the surveys and statistical analysis across thematic/program areas. This position will provide technical support to the LIFT programme in development and execution of appropriate sample designs/strategies for LIFT household surveys and thematic/program based experimental and quasi-experimental studies.