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A Cabinet that Works : Ministries in Sri Lanka Parliamentary Research Team, Verité Research The role played by the Cabinet of Ministers is critical to ensure that the government functions efficiently and effectively. Verité Research has found that the way in which Cabinet portfolios are designed in Sri Lanka impedes the ability of government to be effective. It found that the problem of irrational, larger-than-necessary, unstable Cabinet ministries has been common across successive governments during the 2010-2020 period.Therefore, fixing these problems is critical to have a government that functions efficiently and effectively. Based on its research, Verité Research provides a model sample of 15 ministries that can minimise irrationality and fragmentation. 20p.

2020-07-01T00:00:00Z Parliamentary Research Team, Verité Research Manthri.lk https://archive.veriteresearch.org/handle/456/8168 2026-04-14T21:33:08Z 2024-03-01T00:00:00Z

Blueprint for a Rational Government in Sri Lanka : Proposed Ministries, Departments, Corporations and Statutory Institutions and Their Relevant Laws, Duties, and Functions Parliamentary Research Team, Verité Research; Manthri.lk ‘Blueprint for a Rational Government in Sri Lanka‘, created by Verité Research and Manthri.lk, seeks to implement the recommendations from the White Paper on “A Rational Method for Cabinet Formation in Sri Lanka“, published in 2020. It lists down the duties and functions, institutions, and acts to be implemented under the 15 ministries proposed in the annexures of the White Paper, following revisions that were supported by extensive expert consultation. This document is the blueprint by which governments can solve 3 key issues relating to irrational cabinet formation: 1.Misalignment of subjects - Unrelated subjects being grouped together under one ministry. 2. Fragmentation of subjects - Related subjects being split across different ministries. 3. Not having a fixed structure for ministries and their institutions. - Ministry purviews often change alongside ministerial appointments and shuffles, resulting in institutions shifting from ministry to ministry. The document takes on the form of an extraordinary gazette and serves as a starting point for a more effectively and efficiently structured form of government. 81p. - This document is compiled only based on Extraordinary Gazettes published in the Department of Government Printing website between the period April 2010 and July 2022. The numbers of Extraordinary Gazettes used for this study are as follows: 1651/20, 1933/13, 2103/34, 2153/12, 2176/23, 2187/27 and 2289/43.

2024-03-01T00:00:00Z de Mel, Nishan Gunatilleke, Gehan Fernando, Janeen Knight, Malathy Abeysinghe, Subhashini Mohammed, Rehana Wettimuny, Shamara Munas, Hasna https://archive.veriteresearch.org/handle/456/5238 2023-02-10T04:28:06Z 2016-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sri Lanka Strategic Assessment 2016 de Mel, Nishan; Gunatilleke, Gehan; Fernando, Janeen; Knight, Malathy; Abeysinghe, Subhashini; Mohammed, Rehana; Wettimuny, Shamara; Munas, Hasna Sri Lanka underwent a major political transition in 2015 with the election of President Maithripala Sirisena and the establishment of a new coalition government between the United Front for Good Governance (UNFGG) and one faction of the United Peoples’ Freedom Alliance (UPFA). The Sri Lanka Strategic Assessment analyses six spheres of contestation within Sri Lanka’s current political context, and assesses their impact in terms of securing peace and accelerating inclusive growth in the future. These spheres of contestation have been identified and classified along two axes: horizontal contestation and vertical contestation. The former deals with contestation within and between communities, while the latter deals with contestation between the Sri Lankan state and citizens. Copyright © 2016 The Asia Foundation. All rights reserved.

2016-03-01T00:00:00Z Fernando, Janeen https://archive.veriteresearch.org/handle/456/5236 2023-02-10T04:28:52Z 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silent Suppression: Restrictions on Religious Freedoms of Christians 1994-2014 Fernando, Janeen This study systematically analyses trends of restrictions faced by Christians over the past twenty years and aims to provide activists, academics, civil society, religious leaders and other relevant stakeholders key insights on the nature of religious discrimination and violence faced by Christians in Sri Lanka. It is based on over 20 years of reports gathered by the National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka. The methodology used for the study was created by Verité Research in 2013 as a form of classifying incidents reported by religious freedom groups into discernible categories as a way of understanding emerging trends in religious intolerance and violence. A total of 972 events of religious intolerance, violence and discrimination were identified, classified and analysed for this report. Overall, several key trends emerge from the analysis of these events. First, restrictions on religious freedoms of Christians are overt and often violent. Second, the restrictions that have emerged are not a result of competing religious groups but small minorities facing restrictions by majority (and majoritarian) religious communities. Third, the state and the political climate have played a major role in exacerbating the number and intensity of the restrictions placed on religious minorities. 25p. The NCEASL retains distribution rights of this report. This publication may be reproduced by any organisation for use in human rights education activities, provided the source is acknowledged and National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka and USAID are notified of such use.

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