People’s Spaces: Beyond the Intellectual Cloud Cover
Space for Citizens’ Actions
Ensuring Quality of Survey Data
CEPA’s 50th Open Forum on Poverty, “Ensuring quality of survey data” was held on Tuesday, 29th April 2014 at 4.30 pm at the Auditorium, Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute for International Relations and Strategic Studies, 24, Horton Place, Colombo 07. The Open Forum featured two presentations by Prof. S.S. Colombage and Dr. Anila Dias Bandaranaike The Open Forum […]
12th CEPA Symposium – Making Sustainability the Next Metric (2013)
The Centre for Poverty Analysis, in collaboration with the Centre for Policy Dialogue (Bangladesh), Sustainable Development Policy Institute (Pakistan) and Practical Action (Sri Lanka), held its 12th Annual Poverty Symposium on the 6th and 7th of November 2013. The Symposium aimed to advance and compliment the Southern Voice Initiative (Centre for Policy Dialogue) that has spearheaded the effort to increase southern […]
Making Sustainability the Next Metric: the Post 2015 Development Agenda
The intent of this initiate was to create a dialogue on the next phase of the Millennium Development Goals and how they can incorporate the Sustainable Development Goals. This debate gathered momentum, particularly in the run-up to the United Nations post-2015 agenda that includes calls to integrate social, economic, and ecological dimensions of sustainable development […]
Handcuffed to History
Development, Displacement and Resettlement
CEPA’s 48th Open Forum on “Development, Displacement and Resettlement” will be held on Thursday 21st February 2013 at 4.30 pm at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute, 100, Independence Avenue, Colombo 7. This Open Forum discussion seeks to examine the National Involuntary Resettlement Policy (NIRP) in greater detail and to compare it with the existing laws […]
11th Annual Symposium – Re-imagining Development (2012)
CEPA’s 11th Annual Symposium, which was held on the 11th and 12th of December 2012, was an initiative to ‘Reimagine’ Development – what it is as well as how we get there or a critical assessment on whether the concept should be discarded altogether if it is obsolete to meet current challenges. This event provided […]