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Myanmar – Youth Empowerment, Sustainable Livelihoods and Care for Nature at Inle Lake

Fishing on Inle Lake

Inle Lake watershed area is a heritage and major tourist site with a unique eco-system. However, there is increasing environmental damage to the watershed due to overuse of chemical farming and pressure from increased tourism as Myanmar emerges from years of isolation. Farmers are in debt to the chemical companies and have few opportunities for economically and ecologically sustainable livelihoods. Youth in particular have few options with many leaving as migrant workers to Thailand or having to resort to illicit ways of earning a living.

Read more about the issues facing those who live on the lake here.

What we are doing

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With our partners in Myanmar, local NGO Kalyana Mitta Foundation (KMF), we have been awarded a grant from the Big Lottery Fund to implement a new project at Inle Lake, Myanmar. This project is now in it’s completion and aimed to improve the livelihoods of disadvantaged youth, while protecting the environment of the area, through sound agricultural practices that increase sustainable land use and improve resilience to climate change. The project’s focus was on:

  • Training youth in eco farming, eco-social enterprise
  • Setting up demonstration plots for those trained in eco farming, to pass on their knowledge to farmers from their own communities
  • Raising awareness within local communities on how to manage Inle Lake watershed sustainably including ‘We Love Inle Lake’ Campaign with youth groups and schools
  • Disaster Risk Reduction plans in communities vulnerable to climate change
  • Setting up eco-social enterprises for the youth to create sustainable livelihoods

Jane Rasbash, Consultant to the project, writes about the Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (PM&E) methods used to set up the project. You can find out about how the project progressed by taking a look at the mid-term report.

Below you can watch a video created in celebration of the outcomes achieved in completion of the project. You can also read more about the aims and outcomes of the project in this report.

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