The multi-donor Livelihoods and Food Security Fund (LIFT) has been operating in Myanmar since 2009. LIFT support, amounting to USD 539 million, has reached around 12.4 million vulnerable people by June 2022.

In the 2019-2023 phase, LIFT continues to work on nutrition, resilience, gender and social protection initiatives that support rural people in Myanmar’s economic transformation. LIFT also intensifies its focus on inclusion and working for inclusive and transformative change. LIFT focuses further on inclusion and social cohesion, intensifies its focus on gender and women’s empowerment, border states and conflict-affected areas, bringing internally displaced persons and returnees into its development programmes and seeking to programme in underserved urban and peri-urban areas. 

Please see selected achievements below:

people reached by LI FT support
Broad geographic coverage across the country by reaching (80 percent of Myanmar's townships) 
people served by LIFT-funded microfinance institutions (91 per cent women) 
migrant workers and family members received the LIFT-funded information, training and support services (57 per cent women) 
people received the agricultural advisory services funded by LIFT
people reached with LIFT-supported nutrition-sensitive interventions