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Announcing a call for concept notes: South East Myanmar Programme

LIFT’s programming in the South East is guided by the LIFT strategy 2019-2023. LIFT’s purpose is to strengthen the resilience and sustainable livelihoods of poor and vulnerable groups in Myanmar, particularly women, internally displaced people and returnees, migrants, smallholder farmers, landless people, people with disabilities and those vulnerable to trafficking and forced labour.

LIFT seeks to contribute to this purpose through three impact-level outcomes:

• Improved nutrition status, particularly for women and children
• Increased household income and assets, with greater control by women
• Reduced vulnerability of households and individuals to shocks, stresses and risks

Operating within the interim arrangements in a conflict sensitive manner, LIFT’s programme in the South East of Myanmar aims to lay the groundwork for and catalyse, where possible, inclusive, climate-resilient and sustainable development in the region that addresses food, nutrition and livelihood security of the most vulnerable. This includes a specific focus on Internally Displaced People (IDPs), returnees, women, youth and those at risk of labour exploitation (further details are provided in Annex 1 of this call for concept notes)

Working within the framework of key policies, LIFT’s objectives for South East Myanmar are to:

• Contribute to pro-poor and inclusive policy/legislative changes and implementation, particularly related to land rights, climate resilience, nutrition, migration and exploitative labour conditions and access to services
• Develop inclusive on and off-farm economic activities which connect diverse actors across geographies and socio-economic levels leading to integrated and inclusive market solutions
• Build cooperative partnerships between the Government, Ethnic Armed Organisations (EAOs) and Ethnic Service Providers (ESPs), and increase their capacity and accountability to reach the most vulnerable
• Advance a social inclusion and empowerment agenda across all sectors, with a particular focus on gender equality, youth engagement and people with disabilities
• Strengthen the voice and capacity of communities and Civil Society Organisations to increase transparency and promote accountability
• Demonstrate sustainable and/or scalable models and approaches within the framework of the humanitarian-development-peace ‘nexus’ by working across conflict lines to secure rights, improve livelihoods and increase access to services for IDPs, returnees and conflict-affected people.

Read more details about this call for concept notes and the programme framework. These are also downloadable from the UNGM website.

Answers to questions submitted by the deadline of 12 November 2019 are published here.

Proposals can be submitted on or before 16 December 2019, 13:00 Myanmar time (GMT+6:30h) by sending an email to lift.proposals.mmoc@unops.org , with the subject line: CfP/LIFT/2019/4/SE - "Organisation Name".

The proposal evaluation procedure is as follows:

Except for the final date of concept note 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.

*** "Please note, this is to indicate that the LIFT Fund Management team plans meetings with Regional Government during this period.  These are not open information sessions.  Please direct any questions on the call to lift@unops.org as per the stated process for enquiries, by the deadline of 12 November".