Govt. holds forum with development partners

Over 25 Development Partners’ representatives, including UN agencies, European Union, UK, Japan, Canada, Korea, Switzerland, Norway, and Germany attended the meeting

Ministry of National Policies, Economic Affairs, Resettlement and Rehabilitation, Northern Province Development and Youth Affairs Secretary V. Sivagnanasothy (right) and UN Resident Coordinator Hanaa Singer chaired the meeting

The Ministry of National Policies, Economic Affairs, Resettlement and Rehabilitation, Northern Province Development and Youth Affairs recently held a forum with development partners. 

At the meeting the progress and achievement of the Ministry on Resettlement and Rehabilitation and reconciliation initiatives were discussed. The discussion was centred on land release, mine action (mine clearance, mine risk education and victim assistance), resettlement, economic integration, and social integration, especially the 10,000 housing program, Rapid Rural Development Program – Gamperaliya (RRDP), Rural Infrastructure Development Program (RIDP), and other infrastructure development and economic and social empowerment programs. The discussion also centred on localizing and contextualizing the SDGs, strengthening of statistical information systems, institutionalizing the Managing for Development Results (MfDR) in the public sector, and revisiting and improving the evaluation criteria in the SDG era, incorporating the equity, climate change, environment, human rights, governance aspects, widening the definitions and adding of policy coherence.

Ministry of National Policies, Economic Affairs, Resettlement and Rehabilitation, Northern Province Development and Youth Affairs Secretary V. Sivagnanasothy and UN Resident Coordinator Hanaa Singer co-chaired the Development Partners’ Forum and over 25 Development Partners’ representatives, including UN agencies, European Union, UK, Japan, Canada, Korea, Switzerland, Norway, and Germany attended the meeting.