The Story of FIRST Policy Facility in Myanmar, 2016-2022
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Final report from Policy Officer in Myanmar/ Lessons Learned.
The EU-FAO FIRST Policy Facility was launched in Myanmar in 2016, initially focusing on land tenure and then adding nutrition as a major emphasis in 2017. This inception phase focused on investing in relationship and trust building, particularly with the Ministry of Agriculture Livestock and Irrigation’s (MoALI’s) Department of Planning (DOP) which emerged as a convening body across the Ministry. Embedded in DOP, FIRST was well placed to support the Department to bring the various siloed Departments together. FIRST maintained the same lean team of two policy officers and one implementation support specialist since 2017, which ensured continuity and trust building. This was particularly important in a country which had just started opening in 2008 following 60 years of military rule, and where the policy landscape had been and continued to be shaped by “rice bowl” politics, aiming to securing rice self-sufficiency and regaining its regional prowess as largest rice producer in the 1950s. FIRST opened doors for the European Union Delegation to establish a working relationship with MoALI, and set the scene for future budget support. FIRST also operated as the main policy support and policy analysis function for the FAO country office and supported the organization in its various coordination and convening capacities.