Sri Lanka
ICT4D Projects managed by UNDP Sri Lanka
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Modernizing the Parliament for Democratic Governance
- Under the project, the Parliament envisages using ICT tools to enhance capabilities in its key functional areas and empower the average citizen with knowledge and information on important issues of the country and of parliamentary decisions that impact their daily life, and thereby enable them to become active partners in the country’s developmental process. In summary, the project seeks to assist in the modernization of parliament by increasing its capability to exercise its basic legislative, oversight and representational functions.
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Strengthening Capacity for Aid Management
- UNDP’s support focuses on restructuring and strengthening the capacity of the External Resources Department (ERD), through which all development assistance to Sri Lanka is channeled, to develop an aid management policy and to migrate to a culture of resource mobilization from multilateral agencies on commercial basis.
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Equal Access to Justice
- UNDP, through the application of the human rights based approach to development, seeks to strengthen the capacities of vulnerable groups to claim and exercise their legal rights. It simultaneously improves the professional strengths of those in the justice sector providing services leading to the protection of these rights. The integrated approach targets women, children, the poor, minorities, and those living in underdeveloped areas of the country, as well as the services provided to them by all actors in the justice sector. This includes normative protection (laws, statutes, regulations) implementation and enforcement (judiciary, police, prisons), and empowerment (lawyers, human rights commission, civil society groups, law teaching institutions).
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Creating Dividends of Peace: Strengthening Capacities for the Relief, Rehabilitation and Reconciliation (Triple R) Framework
- The project includes immediate capacity building support at the district and divisional level as per the needs identified in the Multilateral Group Needs Assessment, and support to the district and divisions to establish a Management Information System to facilitate needs-based planning and monitoring, and support to reconciliation activities.
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Capacity Development and Recovery Programme (CADREP)
- The programme aims to strengthen the overall governance of post-tsunami recovery work through capacity development of public administration, local government, civil society and the private sector. The programme envisages developing the capacity of government and civil society in the planning, disaster and information coordination, management and delivery of recovery and reconstruction services on a sustainable basis. The programme also provides a platform for effective donor linkage on capacity development for recovery as well as a mechanism to support the integration of specific UN initiatives in strengthening governance and civil society, micro-enterprise and livelihoods development, information management and disaster risk management.
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Development Assistance Database (DAD)
- DAD Sri Lanka was established at the request of the Government of Sri Lanka for the tracking of tsunami-related assistance. DAD Sri Lanka application is an automated information management stem which is designed to improve efficiency and coordination of donor activities in the country. It is also a powerful tool for tracking and analyzing aid flows.
