| Grant Profile: |
| Project Title: |
Promotion of Peace and Development with Local Capacities in Sri Lanka |
| PCF/LICUS/SPF: |
PCF |
Status: |
Closed |
| File Number: |
300
| Region: |
SA |
| Sector: |
Multisector |
Country: |
Sri Lanka |
| FY approved: |
2005 |
Grant Theme : |
Social dev/gender/inclusion |
| Keyword(s): |
Civil society / NGOs;Community-driven development;Conflict prevention;Donor harmonization;Peace and reconciliation dialogue;Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons;Peace audit |
Approved Amount: |
$218,120.00 |
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Grant Recipient:
Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies (CHA) |
Grant Purpose:
The purpose of the grant is to enable advocacy for peace, human rights and development, through support for national and local capacity to bring about changes in lives of vulnerable sections of people affected by conflict.
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Grant Activities:
Component 1: Promotion of Human Security
(1) Core Support for District-based Consortia in seven Northern and Eastern Districts.
The resources provided will:
(i) Enable local NGOs within each of the Districts to support and conduct common activities focusing on the protection of minority rights in the national context;
(ii) Allow for presentation of community perspectives to decision-makers and key stakeholders at the District and center.
(2) Promotion of Peace and Prevention of Recurrence of War
The District Offices of the Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies (CHA) in the seven Northern and Eastern Districts will work through localized peace builders and community protection groups, consisting of activists and civic leaders, in promoting peace, human rights, and development. The activities include:
(i) Provision of core support to the District Consortia, to articulate the interests of people in the area and that of socially active organizations through the lens of human security issues fundamental to promoting peace at a local level;
(ii) Publication of Quarterly Human Security Reports compiled by CHA bringing a focus on issues impinging wants and fostering fear of persons in vulnerable situations due to effects of war and acts of parties to the ceasefire;
(iii) Systematical receipt of representation from the Districts Consortia for monthly and regular member meetings requiring the attention of policy makers. The resources in terms of knowledge will be provided by CHA from its portfolio, which includes conflict sensitive tools and peace building toolkits. Particular emphasis will be given to capturing the needs for peace, human rights and development of vulnerable communities.
Component 2: Practitioner's Kit for Return, Resettlement, Rehabilitation and Development: A Call for Action to end displacement
This component includes the following activities:
(1) Promotion of the Call for Action: distribution of posters and leaflets emphasizing the end state of displacement with information benefiting the internally displaced persons (IDPs), through local level networks and Government and NGO service structures, to emphasize state responsibility. The purpose is to provide information on policies of assistance and avenues for representation to seek remedy for the IDPs.
(2) Advocacy and Accountability of Humanitarian Action: obtaining airtime on national radio in the two national languages, in order to:
(i) provide information on macro developments advancing the cause of the displaced;
(ii) highlight issues pertaining to the displaced with feedback on solutions and remedies from government and other service providers, with a view to providing community benefits to those directly affected and accountability for humanitarian action, through representation for group and individual rights.
Component 3: Supporting an Enabling Environment for Peace in Sri Lanka: Creating Conflict-Sensitive Development Capacity.
In Sri Lanka, development, humanitarian and peace-building actors have an important role in addressing the dynamics and structural causes of the conflict. This role can be enhanced and enabled by these actors adopting ‘conflict-sensitive approaches’ in their own strategizing and programming. This initiative aims to promote and build the capacity to operationalize ‘conflict-sensitive approaches’ in a wide range of actors in the Sri Lankan context. It includes the following activities:
(1) Using conflict analysis tools to undertake peace audits in Sri Lanka, to assess the environment of peace and conflict in all geographic districts for purpose of early warning to prevent escalation of potential conflicts or breakdown of peace.
(2) Using conflict analysis tools to assess the conflict sensitivity of major development project planned through Sri Lanka and act as an early warning mechanism in relation to these projects, by providing timely analysis of negative impact leading to conflict or promotion of conflict.
(3) Proving conflict sensitization and awareness training for government servants and non-state actors providing resources and services in situations of competing demands.
(4) Extending the mapping of conflict sensitive practices particularly in Southern Sri Lanka –documenting further indigenous knowledge, tools and experience on conflict sensitivity resolution through a process of action research.
The specific target groups CHA will invite to participate in the sensitization and awareness activities include:
(i) employees of the Ministries of Relief, Rehabilitation, and Reconciliation; and Provincial Councils and Planning providing resources and services in situations of competing demands;
(ii) provincial government employees in similar situations;
(iii) policy-makers in government, donor, international and national development and humanitarian centers; and
(iv) officials of non-state actor agencies such as the LTTE Planning and Development Secretariat.
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Lessons Learned:
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