The Myanmar Strategy Support Program (Myanmar SSP) is designed to enhance national capacity for conducting holistic policy and strategy analysis and promoting evidence-based policy making to support agricultural transformation and other broad development goals in Myanmar. A joint program of IFPRI and Michigan State University (MSU), Myanmar SSP’s on-the-ground presence also facilitates close partnership with civil society organizations, policy research institutes, the private sector, and other stakeholders, enabling the program to respond to national and regional priorities and strengthening the country’s technical and institutional capacity to take on development challenges. In-country engagement in the policy process backed by evidence-based research and analysis has proven to be effective in contributing to major policy changes and successful agricultural investments.

The Feed the Future Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity (MAPSA), funded by USAID, is Myanmar SSP’s flagship project. MAPSA is led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and is implemented in partnership with Michigan State University (MSU). The objective of this project is to improve governance in the agricultural sector, through building national capacity to prioritize and implement strategic organizational and policy reforms that improve food and nutrition security in Myanmar; and facilitating broad stakeholder participation in policy dialogue and advocacy.

MAPSA builds off the achievements of the USAID funded Food Security Policy Project (FSPP), under the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy, who has worked towards the goal of inclusive agricultural productivity growth, improved nutritional outcomes, and enhanced livelihood resilience for men and women in Myanmar through an improved policy enabling environment since 2014.