LIFT UPLANDS PROGRAMME IN

VISION AND APPROACH EXPECTED OUTCOMES In Chin, the Uplands Programme is designed to increase incomes and to improve 1. Smallholders achieve increased farm nutrition and resilience for: production and economic returns 2. Rural households have a more equitable access • Remote communities with low food security and poor access to services to and sustainable use of local natural resources • Productive communities engaged in value chains 3. Rural households have improved nutritional outcomes (stunting rates of children are It will support smallholders and landless households through reduced) • Pro-poor financial services 4. Rural households are less vulnerable to shocks • Agriculture extension and value chains development and stresses • Sustainable natural resource management 5. Local stakeholders have increased capacity to • Focus on nutrition in the ‘1000 days’ period and on gender issues deliver services according to local priorities • Local stakeholders’ capacity building THE UPLANDS PROGRAMME IN CHIN STATE Budget Name of organisation Project title Main activities Locations Start/end dates (million USD) • Legalisation of Chin MFI Thantlang, , Falam, GRET Expanding Rural Financial • Developing new loan product and 1-Dec-15 - Services by Institutionalising • New area expansion townships and 31-Dec-18 1.3 Chin MFI • Supporting 2015 flood affected households (Sagaing)

Catholic Relief Services Productive Agriculture • Sustainable and nutrition-sensitive agriculture Falam, Thantlang townships 07-Jun-16 - (CRS) through Community • Nutrition promotion for pregnant and lactating women and and sub-township of 31-May-19 1.8 Partners: KMSS Engagement (PACE) children (1000 Days) through the Care Group Model • Agriculture extension services • Value chain support to producer groups CORAD Promoting Agricultural Diversification and Economic • Watershed management and sustainable use of natural Thantlang, Hakha, Falam, 14-Jun-16 - 2.2 Partners: Integration in Northern Chin resources Tedim and Tonzang 31-May-19 GRET, ICIMOD State • Knowledge sharing through to the Chin Livelihood and Food townships Security Working Group

Myanmar Institute for Securing Positive Nutritional • Demonstration and farmer-field schools on integrated farming Integrated Development Outcomes through Agriculture system (crop – livestock – aquaculture) 14-Jun-16 - (MIID) Extension, Nutritional • Nutrition and gender promotion 31-May-19 1.7 Partners: Education and Institution • Support to the State Agriculture Institute Cornell University Building in Rural Chin State

SWISSAID • Small grant fund for local civil society organisations (CSOs); Hakha, Falam, Tedim Partners: Uplands Small-Grants Fund • CSOs capacity strengthening in livelihoods, management and townships 1-Aug-16 - GRET and Metta for Civil Society governance (also in Kachin, Shan, and 30-Nov-18 3.5* Development Foundation Kayah states)

World Agroforestry Centre • Agroforestry demonstration and research (ICRAF) • Knowledge Platform Partners: Is Agroforestry a Sustainable • Student training and curriculum development 22-Oct-14 - Ar Yone Oo Social Land Use Option for Upland (also in Shan and Yezin) 21-Oct-18 0.6* Development ? Association(AYO), Yezin University of

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