LiftFund

Urbanisation has proven to be both a critical and complex aspect of the development process in many countries around the world. The shift from employment in agriculture to higher productivity work in manufacturing and services and the corresponding shift from a rural to an urban economy is an important driver of economic growth in most countries. Yet urbanisation brings with it significant challenges in integrating newly arrived migrants, particularly in terms of providing decent work opportunities, appropriate nutrition, affordable housing, safe and hygienic environments and access to services.

A three-year multi-disciplinary programme is being launched to address these issues in Myanmar. LIFT is currently seeking proposals from qualified organisations to implement projects that reduce the vulnerability of internal migrants to labour exploitation and poor health and nutritional outcomes in the peri-urban areas of Yangon.

Please find the Call for Proposals document in English and Myanmar. The call is also available on the UNGM website here.

Answers to questions received by 4 March are here  and 11 March are available here. 

Proposals can be submitted on or before 8 April, 2019, 13:00 Myanmar time (GMT+6:30h) by sending an email to lift.proposals.mmoh@unops.org, with subject line: 

 CfP/LIFT/2019/1/Urban - "Organisation Name". 

The proposal evaluation procedure is as follows:

Except for the final date for proposal submission to LIFT, the dates provided above are only indicative. The Evaluation Committee may follow a quicker or a longer timeframe for the appraisal of proposals. 

Please direct any enquiries to lift@unops.org

You may also refer to the guidelines and templates here.

LIFT's work on Migration is  here.

Thank you.