Sri Lanka
Promoting sustainable development
HELVETAS started to work in Sri Lanka in 1978. The focus has been on strengthening economic rights and immediate needs of disadvantaged groups in Sri Lanka, while building up strong and trustful relationships with local state and non-state actors in numerous districts in the South, the East and the North.
Since 2009, the focus has been in the Governance and Peace working area; perspectives for the engagement in Sri Lanka confirm this key orientation. The interventions include areas on human rights, democracy, reconciliation and sustainable peace, safe labour migration and civil society support. In addition, HELVETAS sets a particular accent on working with young women and men.
About the Helvetas country program in Sri Lanka
Helvetas Sri Lanka is part of a network of independent development organizations. With head offices in Switzerland, Germany and the USA, Helvetas is working in 29 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. We bring about real change in the lives of over three million disadvantaged people every year. We implement development projects in the areas of water and sanitation, agriculture and nutrition, education, economic development, democracy and peace, and climate and the environment. Helvetas also provides emergency response after disasters.
