Transforming lives of Women Migrant Returnees.

Problem Recognition

As per the tourism industries forecast for infrastructure and manpower by 2018 nearly 200 properties extended to around 12000 rooms will be ready for operation. By 2020 Sri Lanka project a tourism arrival of 4 million anticipating a direct employment increase of 48,000 for housekeeping staff. This is based on the prevailing ratio of four HK staffs per room (4; 1). This paper recommends a possible workable solution to fill the requirement of HK staffs from the housemaid returnees.

Requirements for New Education Transformation and skilled development.

Higher education and Tertiary Education sectors are one of the most powerful sectors of education in Sri Lanka and it will inspire the country’s value, ethics and social institutions so that Sri Lanka becomes celebrated as an enlightened and peaceful multi-ethic, multi-religious and multi-cultural society. Particularly, the examination-orientated teaching in Sri Lanka’s education system needs to change urgently. Examination standards are often out of context. An appropriate grading and reporting system must be accepted without delay, as the current methods do not replicate a meaningful feedback to students. The mental and psychological pressures exerted on children due to the present system must be carefully studied and remedied as a matter of priority. Dependence on extra tuition involving extra spending for parents and study time for students must be reduced or done away with. This article has focused the achievement, challenges of education system in Sri Lanka and the strategies which have developed to overcome the existing challenges in future.

Sri Lanka overseas employment, its economic contribution, and composition

Recent trends in Sri Lanka indicate uneven progress in the labour market. Millions of youth remain unemployed, and even more are working but earning too little to help their families escape poverty. Moreover, in spite of some improvements in job quality, more than half of all workers in the region still do not earn a wage or salary and are often trapped in unproductive and informal work arrangements.

The early recovery coordination strategy bringing back the livelihood

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Starting on 26 December 2010, Batticaloa was struck by the heaviest rains in almost one hundred years, causing devastating northeast monsoon floods in 14 Divisional Secretariat Areas. The flood damage is incurred to homes, infrastructure, schools, water supply, and sanitation systems, among other. The most recent floods are preceded by intense rainfall which had already put many of the conflict-affected returnees at risk.

At the district level, UNDP has been playing an increasingly important role in Early Recovery/Recovery coordination and programming. Early Recovery (ER) is understood as a multidimensional recovery process that begins in the humanitarian setting, and encompasses the restoration of basic services, livelihoods, shelter, governance, security and the rule of law, environment and social dimensions including the reintegration of displaced populations.

Skills Development - Essential to a Successful and Robust Tourism Sector in Sri Lanka.

Over the decades, tourism has experienced continued growth and deepening ‎diversification to become one of the fastest growing economic sectors in Sri Lanka. ‎Modern tourism is closely linked to development and expands to  a growing number ‎of new destinations. These dynamics have turned tourism into a key driver for socio-‎economic progress.‎ The global spread of tourism in industrialized and developed provinces has produced ‎economic and employment benefits in many related sectors - from construction to ‎agriculture and telecommunications.‎

“Support for sustainable livelihood recovery among conflict affected disadvantaged people in the Kilinochchi District

Kilinochchi is a severely underdeveloped and poverty stricken district that was affected by both the civil war and the 2004 tsunami. Out of the four Divisional Secretariats in this district, Karaichchi is the mostly affected with the largest disadvantaged population as defined by widows heading households (3783) out of this there about 1189, under 50years old widows selected for this activities. Widows of Kilinochchi District, and especially the Karachci Divisional Secretariat division are disadvantaged through the lack of facilities, resources, support, alienation, marginalization, and social exclusion. These poor and disadvantaged conditions pose a risk to health (behavioral, physical and mental), livelihood, career, trainings, academic achievements, and the ability to live productive lives. These families are primarily economically disadvantaged, that is, they are with no business opportunities, credit facilities, banking facilities, lenders, access to markets, communication facilities, left out of the supply chain, and forgotten by investors and business opportunists. They are also lacking in other basic skills essential for economic success such as marketing and management skills, leadership, and technical skills making them further vulnerable in the economy.  

Skills Development - Essential to a Successful and Robust Tourism Sector in Sri Lanka-01

Over the decades, tourism has experienced continued growth and deepening ‎diversification to become one of the fastest growing economic sectors in Sri Lanka. ‎Modern tourism is closely linked to development and encompasses a growing number ‎of new destinations. These dynamics have turned tourism into a key driver for socio-‎economic progress.‎

This global spread of tourism in industrialized and developed provinces has produced ‎economic and employment benefits in many related sectors - from construction to ‎agriculture or telecommunications.‎