Sri Lanka (Hansard, 18 December 2001)

§ Clare Short

Full details of DFID's programme are contained in the table.

Projects/description	Start date	End date	Region
Primary Education Planning Project
To strengthen capacity of the national and provincial authorities to plan, manage, monitor and evaluate primary education programmes within an agreed policy framework	October 1996	March 2001	Country wide
Primary English Language Project
To improve the quality of teaching of basic English Language skills in Sri Lankan primary schools	April 1996	August 2002	Country wide
Primary Mathematics Project
To improve the quality of teaching and learning of mathematics in primary schools in Sri Lanka	March 1998	March 2003	Country wide
Education Co-ordination Project
To ensure that DFID funding TC projects in the education sector in Sri Lanka are well co-ordinated with those funded by the World bank and other donors	March 1997	August 2003	Country wide
Relief and Reconciliation Programme—SCF/Oxfam
To help meet the basic survival and emerging rehabilitation needs of communities affected by the civil conflict	April 1997	March 2001	Refugee camps
Oxfam Support to Country Programme
To build on Oxfam's emerging competencies in conflict analysis and grass roots work to facilitate the practical application of tools for transforming community dynamics. To enable people affected by poverty and conflict are better able to cope with, challenge and overcome the barriers sustaining their condition	April 2001	March 2002	Country wide
SCF Support to Country Programme
To ensure that the voices of marginalised and vulnerable children are heard and acted upon, in policy and practise, for the best interest of these children, in education, social protection, inclusion and emergencies	April 2001	March 2002	Country wide
Mother and Child Reproductive Health Project for Displaced Persons
Provision of three static clinics which also provide mobile health services to the displaced population	October 1995	December 2003	Vavuniya, Puttalum, Horowpathana
Mother and Child Reproductive Health Care in Mannar
Increase access to and utilisation of reproductive health services (in co-ordination with Government services among the displaced population and host community in Mannar)	September 1998	June 2003	Mannar
Strengthening Prospects for Peace in Sri Lanka
To enhance the prospects for a sustainable negotiated settlement by strengthening the capacity of senior cross party parliamentarians and other significant actors to contribute to the peace process	August 2000	August 2003	Colombo
International Humanitarian Law—A Peace Building Measure in Sri Lanka
To establish and support a respected group from within the international Buddhist community who will engage with senior Buddhist Clergy in Sri Lanka in International Humanitarian Law, trust-building, de-escalation and wider peace processes	November 2000	October 2001	Colombo

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DFID expenditure in Sri Lanka 1999–2000 and 2000–01

Total Bilateral Aid:

1999–2000: £7,827 million
2000–01: £7,282 million

DFID has financed projects targeting primary education, improving the livelihoods of those people affected by the conflict, mother and child health, promoting social cohesion and reconciliation, poverty reduction, capacity building of community based organisations, child soldiers, micro enterprise, mental illness and promoting human rights. Activities of these projects have been undertaken in Vavuniya, Puttalum, Horowpahana, Mannar, Colombo, Mahaweli, Jaffna, Kurunegala, Gampaha, Kilinochi, Mullaitivu, Trincomalee, Pudukudyirrapu, Meerakerny, Okewala, Villachiciya and country wide.

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Projects/description	Start date	End date	Region
Environmental Management and Sustained Development in the Upper Mahaweli Catchment Area
To improve the operational capacity of the EFCD so that it more December 1995 September 2001 effectively serves the needs of its customers who are the major users of the land in the Upper Mahaweli Catchment Area	December 1995	September 2001	Mahaweli
Urban Poverty Reduction in Colombo Municipality
To reduce poverty in the city of Colombo by developing a participatory and sustainable institutional framework within the municipal structure that is close to the poor and where the community can be effectively organised for livelihood and environmental improvement	June 2000	October 2003	Colombo
Greater Colombo Sewerage Project
To provide background information relating to technical and policy issues required to enable a major World bank project to proceed	August 1997	February 2000	Colombo
Jaffna Power Rehabilitation
To restore power to the Jaffna area in a sustained manner	June 1996	November 2000	Jaffna
ICRC
Ongoing humanitarian assistance and implementation of the ICRC mandate	January 1998	December 2001	Country wide
UNICEF Programme of Special Assistance for Children and Women Affected by Conflict
Promote the civil empowerment and participation among families and communities to build capacities for coping with the effects of the conflict and continue to strengthen child survival, protection and development to serve as a platform for reconciliation and conflict resolution	January 1998	June 2002	Refugee camps
Capacity Building on Community Based Organisations in Jaffna
To strengthen 20 CBOs to enable them to provide sustainable financial services in a post conflict situation	July 2000	June 2002	—
Light Engineering in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
To learn through action research about the cost effectiveness of the different approaches to increasing technological capability and capacity within the particular socioeconomic environments of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka	April 1998	March 2001	Kurunegala, Gampaha
Sri Lanka: Save The Children From Violence Campaign
To increase awareness at all levels of Sri Lankan society that armed conflict has an unacceptable impact on all Sri Lankan children	November 1999	March 2000	Country wide
UNHCR Displaced Persons
Facilitate Internally Displaced People to their place of origin or their resettlement in other designated locations in Sri Lanka	February 1998	December 2001	Kilinochi, Mullaitivu, Mannar, Vavuniya, Trincomalee, Jaffna
Vulnerable Groups in Conflict Areas (VOICE)
To increase the opportunities for all sectors of the conflict affected population to represent their needs and rights to the authorities	December 2000	March 2004	North and East
Micro Enterprise
To increase the number and profitability of small scale food processing businesses in Sri Lanka and thereby stimulate rural employment, income levels, self sufficiency and entrepreneurial activities	March 2000	March 2004	Pudukudyirrapu, Meerakerny, Mangalagama, Okewela, Villachciya
Establishment of Continuum of Care for the Mentally III
To establish a residential rehabilitation institution/therapeutic community to prepare those who are recovering from mental illness for independent living in the community	April 1999	March 2002	Colombo

DFID' s bilateral programme in Sri Lanka is increasingly focused on the relationship between poverty and conflict. The objectives of the programme are to: improve livelihood security of the poor in conflict areas; explore processes for intercommunual reconciliation; and improve the quality of education, particularly at primary level.

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