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Mainstreaming Livelihood Options for Disaster Management

  • Training on disaster reporting for provincial correspondents in Trincomalee district.
  • Continuing canal construction in Habaraduwa in Galle district.
  • Awareness creation workshop for beneficiary communities in Panama in Ampara district about maintenance of rainwater harvesting tanks.

Strengthening the resilience of communities affected by disasters

  • Green belt planting at Wanduruppa and Karathivu
  • Participatory market chain analysis on dairy sector – Karathivu
  • Business planning workshop on 02 nd December at Wanduruppa
  • Preliminary work carried out on establishing a rural business incubation centre.

Disaster-resistant sustainable livelihoods

  • Participatory market chain analysis workshop in Vaharai area of Batticalo district for livelihood development activities carried out by NECCDEP.
  • Marketing and production orientation programme implemented in collaboration with Rural Enterprise Network(REN) for cinnamon processors.
  • Business idea generation training at Harumalgoda,Alawathukissa.
  • Livelihood needs assessment in fishery villages in Koggala of Galle district.

Fisheries

  • Construction of the community building continued in Rekawa
  • Handing over the solar fish drier to the community representatives in Batticaloe
  • Commissioning mobile driers in Panama.

Organic farming

  • Training programme in Matara for farmer leaders, extension officers on the 18 th and 19 th December
  • Cultivating fallow paddy lands in collaboration with Agriculture department in Siriyagama, Bundala

Integrated Urban Governance

  • Construction of the waste centre in Galle and Kurunegala continued.
  • Rehabilitation of drainage system in Bombay castlewaththa Galle.
  • Eco san demonstration toilet construction in Kurunegala.
  • Construction of waste water filter in Kurunegala.

Shelter

  • Swiss/Austrian Red Cross- Field surveys and evaluation on houses constructed for tsunami affected.
  • Completion of new Styrofoam cost effective housing pilot project in Koggala.
  • Two day workshop in Galle for technical officers and administrators on Rat trap bond, masonry, filler slab roof, Styrofoam technology, quality assurance standards in construction, co sanitation.
  • GTZ/Practical Action training of trainers workshop(TOT) for technical officers in the east and north east.

Communications

Web portal

  • Feeding of Sinhala and Tamil data bases – Progressing
  • Content creation and uploading – on going
  • Technical enhancements of the portal
  • Content creation and linking the portal with external resource points - ongoing

Events

  • Participating at GK3 conference in Kualaumpur

Community radio

  • Continuing the work on linking communitty radio to Janthakshan.net

Printing Janthakshan Puwath quarterly magazine.

Launch of the community newspaper Thahavel Madar by the Karathivu beneficiary community in Ampara district.

Enhancing Renewable Energy Options

  • Constructing bio diesel processing centre in Nikeweratiya
  • Purchasing of an oil expeller for bio diesel extraction.

Pro Poor Policies

  • Seminar - Bilateral and multilateral free trade agreements and the aspirations of strengthening the local economy - on December 17th at the Bandaraniake Memorial International Conference Hall (BMICH)

Solid Waste Management and Eco Friendly Sanitation

  • Field visit for communitty representatives from Harumalgoda and Alwathukissa in Galle to create awareness on the use and maintenance of eco friendly toilets.
  • Constructing an eco friendly toilet as a demonstration unit at Habitat for Humanity office in Ratmalana and awareness creation for staff.
  • Awareness creation programme on use and maintenance of eco friendly toilets for community representatives from Pingama and Minethiliya villages in Ambalanathota.
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