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Launch of the Reports, Online Dashboard and Video Documentary of the Electronic Citizen Report Card (eCRC), on Secondary Education and Local Government Service Delivery

Tuesday, 22 January 2019, Jasmine Committee Room, BMICH , Bauddhaloka Mawatha Colombo 7. The Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA)  and  ACTED, in collaboration with zonal education departments and Local governments in Batticaloa, Monaragala and Mullaitivu Districts, will be launching the benchmark reports of the Electronic Citizens Report Card (e-CRC) on the delivery of secondary education […]

CEPA Open Forum on Educational Inequalities in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka has had a history of educational policies driven towards providing universal access to education. This has helped the country to expand its access to education, especially for primary and junior secondary education. Yet, this expansion in access was not accompanied by similar quality improvements, with a recent World Bank study quantifying a 4.7 […]

Launch of the Reports, Online Dashboard and Video Documentary of the Electronic Citizen Report Card (eCRC), on Secondary Education and Local Government Service Delivery

Tuesday, 22 January 2019, Jasmine Committee Room, BMICH , Bauddhaloka Mawatha Colombo 7. The Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA) and ACTED, in collaboration with zonal education departments and Local governments in Batticaloa, Monaragala and Mullaitivu Districts, will be launching the benchmark reports of the Electronic Citizens Report Card (e-CRC) on the delivery of secondary education […]

Living on the Margins: The Role of Borderland Brokers in Post-War Transitions

How are Sri Lanka and Nepal changing after war? How has the relationship between centre and periphery shaped war and the post-war transition? What is the role of local leaders from the margins or ‘borderland brokers’? Visit our Living on the Margins exhibition to explore these questions. We reflect on the meaning of borders, examine […]

Even Fish have an Ethnicity – 57th Open Forum on how Ethnic Identities Mediate Livelihoods in a Fishing Community in Post-War Sri Lanka

30 Jan 2018 by CEPA 180109-Flyer-A study on how ethnic identities-fishing community Presenting her findings from her PhD thesis titled, ‘“Even Fish have an Ethnicity’: Livelihoods and Identities of Men and Women in War-affected Coastal Trincomalee, Sri Lanka”, Senior Researcher Gayathri Lokuge argued that women work in the fringes of the fishing industry in Trincomalee and […]