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Sunday, May 10, 2015

To identify solution through the study on disadvantaged groups in Kilinochchi District.

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The study on disadvantage groups in Kilinochchi District is essential to an understanding of their real needs, situation and problems which could be given a solution to prepare a valuable policy for an intervention to recover them, especially on employment, education, health, government service and etc.

NHRDC currently functions under the purview of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Skills Development. The National Human Resources Development Council (NHRDC) is the sole agency for promoting, initiating and practicing the human capitals and creates the strategies for the policy formulation.

Study Methodology
Questionnaires were administered to participants in the following divisional secretariats: Poonakary DS division, Pallai DD division, Karachchi DS division, Kandawali DS division. Focus group interviews were also conducted with single women headed households, politicians, INGOs, NGOs, government departments, CBOs, business persons, and community and religious leaders. Interviewers were trained in each division to conduct interviews. 
The target group for the survey selected whole disadvantaged families including single mother household, single father households and parentless families. Once the survey was completed we will have discussion with the relevant stakeholders to continue the upgrading living standard for the most disadvantaged selected families toward the long term recovery    and reconstruction of them.

The survey will be conducted with the close coordination of the divisional secretariat and their staff assistance and the rest of analyzing part will be conducted by NHRDC to find the result and resolution.

Identified trust areas
There are over 7755 disadvantaged families recorded in Kilinochchi district living in poverty with low quality of life. Such post war areas of Sri Lanka are extremely poor due to disadvantaged social and economic circumstances. While we conducting research, we have identified four trust areas according the priority of most disadvantaged families’ needs which are given bellow,
Employment
Vocational training
Government service
Education and Health
Project Background
Our mission is Promote and facilitate the development and implementation of effective policies and strategies, on human capital and thereby contribute to making Sri Lanka the wonder of Asia. According to this mission still the most vulnerable people are identified to be recovered human capital in war and natural disaster affected areas.

Promotion of the human capital for the most disadvantage people is a priority programme   which has designed initially to conduct the survey as well in-depth interview too.  The initial need assessment programme phase focused on promoting and strengthening sustainable access to employability and employable skill services for poorer sections of society.


Study Findings:

Affecting their self-employment was being shunned by the banking facilities, lack of business knowledge, isolation from the supply chain, inefficient public sector, lack of rural transport, household security, and lack of interest to engage with them from the private sector. Affecting health are the lack of physicians, lack of transportation, and inability to purchase medicine. Affecting education is the distrust of the outside, disinterest in vocational training, mismatch between courses offered and their relevance to entreprenial development, course schedule conflicting with work, unware if the importance of education to career growth, lack of training institutions near homes, lack of flexible or mobile education services, and the lack of confidence in employment after training at these institutions. Government services were somewhat helpful however they were not greatly helpful. 

Recommendations on Policy to Address Findings:

Vocational training: According to our research study, generally most proportion of the people does not participate in any kind of vocational trainings in Kilinochchi district, 85.9 percentage of family members age between 15 to 29 said no when we asked whether they received vocational training. Because people are expecting trainings whatever they need but training institutions are not provide those as they expect this is a big gap still  also they would like to do “learning while earning” namely on the job trainings.

Also people suggested have to change the training module, curriculums according the available man power and land extend.

Most of the villages in kilinochchi are far away from the town though people are facing difficulties accessing transport and having lack of awareness to  make them interest to follow. So people suggested to conduct the relevant mobile training programme and asked to establish the branches in their divisions.

Most of them are engaging in farming and fishing so they suggested to initiate relevant training programme according the available resources in addition they suggested to provide some value added training programmes.

People have lack of awareness, they are very lack to getting the information of available courses and its usefulness, and our research analysis said that only 33.3% of people received the information through their friends other 30% people received from government officers

Employment: After resettlement people physically settled but still they are economically, socially and mentally very vulnerable. From our sample said 63.2% of people have no job opportunities. So many reasons we identified illiteracy, lack of permanent employment, facing problems to find jobs, lack of investment and so on.

Participation  of the people in the implementation phase is negligence, also many of the development projects are going on even though   most of the people are hiring from outside of the district for the employment which make negative impact among them such as prostitutions, women migrations and etc.

Credit facility: Only limited financial institution established, even though they have strong procedure to issue credit facilities for the self-employments opportunities. They suggested to reduce the procedure especially in collateral issues and guarantee because most of them lost their document due to displacement and war and no one come forward to support to access on this.

Public Services
Cadre: Still cadres are not completely filled, according the data received from District Secretariat 17 cadres from District Secretariat and 215 from   Divisional Secretariat have not been filled. Most of the staffs are working as acting and could not provide proper services to the people.

As we identified still people are affright to move to public servant because of corruption and bribery. To eradicate these have to create awareness among public and give contact numbers to contact anytime.

Language: Some staffs are recruited without secondary language skill so they have to train to be corresponding and work smoothly with the public.  And also both public and public officers have lack of awareness on handling documents, low, circulations and other procedure. People suggested updating their skill in mentioned areas.

Land Problem: Still they are facing problem to resettle and access their land   because someone have no bounties, deeds, permit and all other evidence. They suggested organizing the special mobile service with the support of land officers and Divisional secretariats staffs too.

Traditional small and rural industries: After war traditional small and rural industries have given-up and they lost the market. Especially Palmira is the symbol of Northern Province even though now no more products produced by the rural people. People interestingly suggested restarting this kind of local production. They need special training,  investment and marketing facilities to engage and improve the self-employment among the disadvantage groups

Marketing: Soon after they were resettled in their original places; they started their traditional cultivation and fishing. The problem is no proper market to sale their local products such as dairy product, agriculture products and fishing products. They could not sale these for reasonable prices so they suggested adding the value to these products and creating public and private partnership.

Health: After war many of the people become most vulnerable, they affected psychically and mentally. Specially mentally handicapped people have been identified, the reasons are the lack of counseling programme, lack of mobile clinics at the village level, lack of family health officers and lack of nutrition food consumption.

So they suggested to conduct regular clinics, appoint enough staffs, make awareness on food consumption pattern not only    village level but also to the school children have to do these to recover from traumatic experience.

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