LIFT's Uplands Programme 2016 - 2018
Budget: Estimated USD 36 million
Download the full programme one pager here.
Chin one pager here. Kachin one pager here. Shan one pager here.
Vision and approach
The programme focuses on increasing incomes and resilience, improving nutrition and promoting pro-poor policies in Chin, Kachin, Shan, Kayah, Kayin states and Tanintharyi region for:
• Productive communities engaged in value chains
• Remote communities with low food security and poor access to services
• Displaced people previously out of development intervention reach
The programme moves LIFT interventions towards ‘areas emerging from conflict’. It will support smallholders and landless households through:
• Pro-poor financial services
• Agriculture extension and value chains development
• Sustainable natural resource management
• Vocational training
• Stronger focus on nutrition and a particular focus on gender issues
• Local stakeholders’ capacity building
Expected outcomes
1. Smallholders achieve increased farm production and economic returns
2. Rural households have a more equitable access to and sustainable use of local natural resources
3. Landless and vulnerable households increase their skills, diversify and increase incomes from non-farm employment and economic opportunity
4. Rural households have improved nutritional outcomes (stunting rates in children are reduced)
5. Rural households are less vulnerable to shocks and stresses
6. Local authorities and local stakeholders have increased capacity to deliver services according to local priorities
