LIFT’s Delta 3 Programme
Budget: Estimated USD 30 million

Download the programme one pager in English here. In Myanmar language here. 

Vision and approach

Now in its third phase, the Delta Programme builds on lessons and best practices from the first two phases. The projects promote the upscaling and commercialisation of smallholder rice farming, while ensuring support for landless households by:

  • Strengthening smallholder farmer’s position in the rice value chain
  • Improving access to quality inputs and new knowledge
  • Improving access to new economic opportunities through off-farm income generation, vocational training and support for migration
  • Addressing vulnerabilities through social protection measures, improved nutrition, reduced indebtedness and climate change adaptation initiatives
  • Providing support for pro-poor policies and coordination of relevant stakeholders

The programme is focused on LIFT’s higher level strategy outputs: increasing incomes and resilience, improving nutrition and pro-poor policy influence.

Expected outcomes

  1. Farmers gain increased income from the sale of agricultural produce
  2. Landless and vulnerable households diversify and increase income from non-farm employment and economic opportunity
  3. Rural households have improved nutritional outcomes, the prevalence of stunting in young children is reduced
  4. Rural households are less vulnerable to shocks and setbacks
  5. Rural economic growth and increased livelihood opportunities for the poor are stimulated by improved government policies and expenditure

Innovative services:

  • Support for farmer producer groups, vulnerable and landless households and small businesses, as well as promotion of nutrition and hygiene practices – WHH/Gret
  • Support to farmer producers enterprises (FPEs) as well as landless, non-farming households  – Mercy Corps/Swiss Contact/AYO
  • Support for diversification of livelihood opportunities including business and life skills development, and promoting access to savings and loans through Village Saving and Loan Associations (VSLA) and links to microfinance institutions – World Vision International
  • Migration research, generating knowledge for migration programming and policy development – International Organisation for Migration
  • Maternal child cash transfers and behavioural change education  - Save the Children
  • Support for “scaling up” aquaculture technologies and production systems through research and knowledge sharing between and within  target villages, government and microfinance partners - World Fish /NAG, GRET, PACT, Department of Fisheries