The following boxes lead to information about some of LIFT’s previous geographic focus programme areas, including the Delta, the Dry Zone, and the Uplands, as well as LIFT’s work in the ‘South East’.
In the Delta, LIFT promoted the upscaling and commercialisation of smallholder rice farming and ensured support for landless households. LIFT also worked to address vulnerabilities through social protection measures, improved nutrition, reduced indebtedness and climate change adaptation initiatives, and to support pro-poor policies and coordination of stakeholders.
In the Dry Zone, LIFT worked for inclusiveness in rural transformation and strengthened resilience of poor households by introducing maternal cash transfers and behaviour change for improved nutrition; improved hygiene, supporting economic activities; informing effective policy and public expenditure decisions; improving agriculture and livestock production processes; and introducing small grant opportunities.
In the Uplands, including Chin State, Shan State and the South-East, LIFT worked with farming communities to achieve better nutrition and agricultural production with nutrition-sensitive agriculture extension, agriculture market-based approaches and private sector partnerships.
LIFT’s purpose in the South East has been to strengthen the resilience and sustainable livelihoods of poor and vulnerable groups, particularly women, internally displaced people and returnees, migrants, smallholder farmers, landless people, people with disabilities and those vulnerable to trafficking and forced labour.
