Quality research and information are the keys to making
informed and effective decisions for business, government and community
services. Whether you are in business, government, or community service
you often ask "What should we do?" or "Did it work?"
Quality research and information will go a long way to providing the answers to
these and many other questions,
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.
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 and
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, unaware 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 training 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 training 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 training.
Also people suggested have to change the training module,
curriculum 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 which must consider not only village
level but also in the school level who were included in traumatic
experience.
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