LIFT Sector

Swanyee is implementing livelihoods projects in Delta region and will continue the livelihoods and food security activities in Dry Zone, Southern Shan State and Southern Rakhine State. Swanyee is one of the members of the Thadar consortium and MERN, and implementing its activities cooperation and coordination with consortium members.
Livelihoods activities are being implementing as an integral component of other programs, with a stronger emphasis on food insecurity, income generating, CMC and so on.

Swanyee emphasizes to increase availability and access to improve livelihoods opportunities among the most vulnerable population, and to improve social and policy environment for enhancing livelihood opportunities and capacities of poor communities, through empowering the communities for best practices concerned with food security and livelihoods.
Most of the families in Myanmar rely heavily on agriculture and forestry products as primary sources of food supply and livelihoods. Swanyee aims to increase food production through higher rice yields, growing vegetables and fruit trees and livelihood projects where livestock are raised.

Swanyee is focusing the extension of proven sustainable Agriculture Technologies for dry land crop production and cash crop for income generation for poor farmers. Provision of Agriculture inputs to poor and energetic farmers who are interesting in village development activities is also one of the idea that support sustainable livelihoods of poor farmers. Swanyee provides kits of livestock to most vulnerable and land less, women headed groups through revolving funds and livestock Banking system. Home Gardening with seasonal crops and perennial crops. Agriculture and forest based Agro-forestation is emphasized to improve food security as well as biodiversity conservation.
We are dealing with capacity development activities through vocational, technical and managerial concerned trainings for livelihoods improvement to the farmers and land less, and also dealing with CMC (community management credit) activities for the income generation.