On Friday 1st August, the LIFT Fund Management Office (FMO) hosted a workshop to take first steps to develop the Results Framework for the upcoming four-year Dry Zone Programme.
LIFT aims to ensure that the programme has a results-based approach, and that Fund Board, FMO, partner and government expertise is channelled into setting programming priorities.
More than 60 participants from partners organisations and other parties working in the Dry Zone spent the morning recapping the programme proposal studies, and discussed the Dry Zone’s main challenges and development priorities. This included a review of LIFT’s draft strategy for the coming four years.
Participants then split into five working groups - each focused on a suggested sub- programme: livestock, water, crops, financial services and social protection. Working from the activity level upwards, participants shared their opinions and defined ways in which the four outcomes from LIFT's draft Strategy can be achieved. The workshop results will be reviewed by the FMO’s M&E department, to contribute to the next stage of the process.
Working groups for each sub-programme are to be identified. The FMO encourages partners and interested parties with expertise in Dry Zone rural development to participate in the groups. Government is to be consulted particularly at township level, involving government technical expertiise.
More information and progress reports on the process will be available here in the coming weeks.
Please refer below to the minutes and powerpoints from the meeting, and to the JICA and WFP/Save the Children studies which assisted the early stages of the programme design. The LIFT Aide-memoire for the Inception mission is also available below:
Workshop Minutes
Powerpoints:
2. Dry Zone situation ( Antoine Deligne and Harald Kreusscher)
3. Review of Outcomes and Outputs of Draft LIFT Strategy 2014- 2018
Studies:
WFP-FSIN Dry Zone food security report
JICA - Development Study on Sustainable Agriculture and Rural development for Poverty Reduction Programme in The Central Dry Zone of the Union of Myanmar
LIFT's Revised Aide-Memoire of the Dry Zone Programme Inception Mission October 2013
