Event

Planning and Samurdhi staff representing all 25 districts of the country, and supported by more than 15 sector agencies, participated in an innovative two-day workshop at the Mount Lavinia Hotel in Colombo from June 28 to 29. The focus of the consultative workshop was on identifying the climate hazards that may affect the key government rural development initiatives, including Divi Neguma and Gama Neguma, and to formulate a four-year project to build the institutional capacity of agencies to ensure that the climate change impacts on the rural development efforts are minimized. The district officials assisted by the officials of line agencies and experts on agriculture, building designs, disaster risk reduction and water management identified the activities to be conducted by different agencies and necessary training, awareness and institutional strengthening needed to achieve the objectives. This new project to build climate resilience through Divi Neguma and Gama Neguma is funded by the Special Climate Change Fund of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), and implemented by Ministry of Economic Development through UNDP