Livelihoods and Food Security Trust Fund (LIFT)
This multi-donor trust fund helps rural people and supports the transformation of Burma's rural economy by promoting inclusive growth. The activity's efforts have already reached more than three and a half million people. USAID contributions to the Fund leverages other donor funds and allows the use of a voting position on the LIFT Fund Board to influence policies, priorities and projects. In 2016, LIFT will continue to focus on private sector engagement, social protection and nutrition issues, and off-farm employment opportunities. LIFT's strategy has a region-wide scope and fosters systemic change. LIFT will expand its financial inclusion program, use a gender lens to design a new program on labor migration focused on leveraging benefits and mitigating negative dynamics of migration, and implement new projects that support value chain strengthening, better nutrition and improved farm advisory services.