OVERALL PROGRESS Context Sri Lanka is facing a complex emergency characterized by high inflation, a deteriorating currency, food insecurity, shortages of fuel, essential healthcare services, power...
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Start Fund Risk Bulletin (Issued 18 May 2023)
The monthly risk briefing reports on new, emerging or deteriorating situations; therefore, ongoing events that are considered to be unchanged are not featured and risks that are beyond the scope and...
Sri Lanka Annual Country Report 2022 - Country Strategic Plan 2018 - 2022
Overview 2022 saw Sri Lanka’s worst economic crisis since its independence, with depleted foreign reserves, reduced agricultural production, political turbulence, high inflation, and increased public...
Sri Lanka | Complex Emergency - Emergency Appeal №: MDRLK014 - Operational Strategy (Revision 01)
The Operational Strategy, developed in June 2022, targeted 500,000 people covering the livelihoods, multipurpose cash (MPC), health; water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH); education; Protection,...
Sri Lanka 2023 IFRC network country plan (MAALK002)
NATIONAL SOCIETY PROFILE The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society was established in 1936 and has been operating a range of humanitarian services for the last eight decades. Formed as the Ceylon Central...
Sri Lanka | Complex Emergency - Emergency Appeal №: MDRLK014 - Operational Strategy
TIMELINE March 2022: Civil society protests erupted across the country. Hundreds of protestors gathered around the president’s residence demanding his resignation and that of his government. More...
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A Pandemic Year in Review: Reflections From Sri Lanka and Maldives
Stepping into the new role of a Country Manager for Sri Lanka and Maldives in July 2020 during a global pandemic was no easy feat. For the first three months I worked from Washington DC, due to...
Working Paper: Climate Change and Human Mobility - Impacts and Actions Across Sectors (December 2020)
KEY TAKEAWAYS Climate-induced mobility is complex and multi-dimensional. Sudden- and slow-onset impacts of climate change influence lives, livelihoods, and migration drivers across different sectors,...
23rd meeting of the EU-Sri Lanka Joint Commission
The European Union (EU) and the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka held their 23rd meeting of the Joint Commission on 25 January 2021, via video conference. This was the first Joint...
Climate Risk Country Profile - Sri Lanka
KEY MESSAGES Temperature rise in Sri Lanka is projected to be marginally lower than the global average. Under the highest emissions pathway (RCP8.5) temperatures are projected to rise by 2.9°C–3.5°C...
The Cost of Being Under the Weather: Droughts, Floods, and Health-Care Costs in Sri Lanka
We measure the impact of extreme weather events—droughts and floods—on health-care utilization and expenditures in Sri Lanka. We find that frequently occurring local floods and droughts impose a...
#FacesofClimateChange: Sri Lanka - Jesuthasan and Sutharsiny’s story
Husband and wife, Jesuthasan and Sutharsiny Delance, live in a two-room brick house with their two children in Vavuniya district in north central Sri Lanka. They have four acres of rice paddy fields,...
Inception Workshop of the Climate Resilient Integrated Water Management Project held in Colombo
Colombo, 12 September 2017 – The inception workshop of the Climate Resilient Integrated Water Management Project, which was developed by the Ministry of Mahaweli Development and Environment with the...
Health and climate change: country profile 2015: Sri Lanka
Overview The Health and Climate Change Country Profile Project forms the foundation of WHO’s monitoring of national and global progress on health and climate change. Working in collaboration with...
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Asia and the Pacific: Weekly Regional Humanitarian Snapshot (23 - 29 December 2014)
SRI LANKA Since 19 Dec, Sri Lanka is experiencing heavy rainfall resulting in flooding and landslides in many areas. An estimated 1.1 million people have been affected, with nearly 120,000 displaced...
Long Term Planning Framework 2012-2015: Sri Lanka Country Office
Who are we? The Sri Lanka country office is part of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies’ (IFRC) Secretariat regional team in South Asia. It is made up of four...
Appeal No. MAALK002 Programme update no. 2
Programme(s) summary Sri Lanka is at a threshold of economic growth and development. Slogans such as ‘winning the economic war’ and making the nation the wonder of Asia’ have been frequently used to...