As part of the design process for LIFT's upcoming Dry Zone programme, LIFT commissioned a team from the FAO Investment Centre to do field work in the preselected target area for the programme: Myingyan, Taungtha, Natogyi and Mahlaing in Mandalay Region and Pakokku and Yesagyo in Magway Region.
Their scoping report presents a number of options for LIFT’s future DZ programme. There is special focus on increasing on-farm and off-farm incomes and improving the well-being of the rural poor. There is focus on building on the learning of current and previous projects in the region by both LIFT and other development partners.
It is important to note that the FAO team did not participate in the consultations that the LIFT Fund Management Office conducted in July and August 2014, and the report does not reference the new LIFT strategy on 2014. Therefore, the report should be read as an important contribution to the development of LIFT’s DZ programme, but it should not be construed as a description of the final programme that will emerge.
LIFT expect that a series of calls for proposals will be launched in January and February of 2015, each of which will articulate more precisely the outcomes of the programme and the kinds of activities that LIFT would like to implement as part of the programme.
Please read the report here.
For further information about the Dry Zone programme design process and developments, please visit the Resources Page for the Dry Zone Programme.
