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LIFT UPLANDS PROGRAMME IN SHAN STATE VISION AND APPROACH EXPECTED OUTCOMES In Shan, the Uplands Programme is designed to increase incomes and to 1. Smallholders achieve increased farm production improve nutrition and resilience for: and economic returns • Remote communities with low food security and poor access to services 2. Rural households have a more equitable • Productive communities engaged in value chains access to and sustainable use of local natural resources It will support smallholders and landless households through: 3. Rural households are less vulnerable to shocks • Pro-poor financial services and stresses • Agriculture extension and value chains development 4. Local stakeholders have increased capacity to • Sustainable natural resource management deliver services according to local priorities • Local stakeholders’ capacity building THE UPLANDS PROGRAMME IN SHAN STATE October 2016 Budget Start/end Name of organisation Project title Main activities Locations (million dates USD) TAG Development International Plan Bee: Introduction • Vocational training and apprenticeship for new bee keepers Ywarngan, Pindaya, Kalaw, 23-Oct-13 - 1.2 Partners: and expansion of modern • Introduction of new bee keeping technologies Nyaungshwe and Taunggyi 31-Mar-17 Parami Development Network beekeeping and honey • Establishing the Apiculture Resources Business Centre (ARBC) in Pindaya townships production in Southern Shan • Awareness on pollination service State • Marketing of honey and honey by-products to high value markets Mercy Corps Making Vegetable Markets Work • Facilitation of a more inclusive and accessible vegetable market systems Kalaw, Taunggyi, 17-Jun-14 - 4.0* Partners:Swisscontact, for the poor for the poor Nyaungshwe, Pindaya and 10-Jun-17 East-West Seed International, • Training and extension services (on-farm and off-farm) Pinlaung townships Ar Yone Oo, Yezin Agricultural University • Improving smallholder market power by mobilising farmer groups (also in Rakhine) and Myanmar Development Research PRIME-Agri Water for Livelihoods and • Integration of smallholder farmers into the agricultural value chain Kalaw, Pindaya, Taunggyi and 14-Dec-15 - 5.9 Smallholder Prosperity • Demonstration, training and extension services for irrigation Hsihseng townships 31-Dec-18 management and production • Provision of small irrigation equipment • Market linkages Metta Development Foundation Uplands Food Security and • Agriculture extension and value chain development (groundnut, Lashio and Namtu townships 17-Jun-16 - 2.1* Participation in Markets (UFS- sesame and mustard oils) (also in Kachin) 31-May-19 PM) • Natural resource management through community forestry and value chain development SWISSAID Uplands Small-Grants Fund for • Small grant fund for local civil society organisations (CSOs) Lashio, Kutkai, Kunlong, 1-Aug-16 - 3.5* Partners: Civil Society • CSOs capacity strengthening in livelihoods, management and Loilem, Hsihseng, Pindaya, 30-Nov-18 GRET and Metta governance Pinlaung and Pekhon townships (also in Chin, Kachin, and Kayah states) World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Is agroforestry a sustainable • Agroforestry demonstration and research Pinlaung township 22-Oct-14 - 0.6* Partners: Ar Yone Oo and land use option for upland • Knowledge platform (also in Chin and Yezin) 21-Oct-18 Yezin University of Forestry Myanmar? • Student training and curriculum development Proximity Designs Financial Inclusion—Moving • Agriculture financing: crop loan; equipment loan Lawksawk, Kalaw, 1-Oct-15 - 5.1* Ahead • Migrant financing: ‘on the move’ loan Nyaungshwe and Taunggyi 30-Jun-18 • Rural enterprise financing townships (also in other regions and states) World Vision International Myanmar Financial Inclusion for Uplands • Pro-poor financial services for agricultural and off-farm livelihood Lashio, Hsipaw, Kengtung, 11-Dec-15 - 4.5* Partners: Vision Fund Myanmar and development Mongphyak and Tachileik 31-Dec-18 World Vision Australia • Debt financing townships (also in Kachin, • Special loan for Small Scale Agricultural Technologies (SSATs) Kayah and Kayin states) • Provision of saving facilities Yoma Bank Yoma Bank Agri-Business • Financial Services for Agricultural and off-farm business Taunggyi township 18-Dec-15 - 18.1* Finance Program • Hire Purchase Scheme (also in nine other regions 31-Dec-18 • Uncollateralised and under collateralised loans and states) *The total budget for the project UNOPS Fund Management Office 12(O) Pyi Thu Lane, 7 Mile, Mayangone Township, Yangon, Myanmar Phone: +95 1 65 7280~87, Fax: +95 1 65 72 79 Email: [email protected] lift-fund.org | facebook.com/liftfund| twitter.com/liftfund From the private sector, the Mitsubishi Corporation is a donor. managed by.
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