With the right information you can act with
certainty, knowing that your economic and social resources can be used in the
most effective manner.
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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