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Despite the difficulties and a heavy workload the staff continued to contribute to those ‘non-billable’ corporate activities that enhance the working environment at CEPA. These are a means of engaging and supporting poverty or development initiatives carried out by other Sri Lankan organisations. This year CEPA continued with the “Innovation Fund”, built up from 2% of the earnings from fee-based services, and the “Solidarity Fund”, set up through CEPA’s people networks, to support longer term tsunami initiatives.
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| CEPA’s Innovation Fund seeks to promote alternatives or out of the mainstream efforts by small Sri Lankan NGOs and civil society organisations working in poverty and development. The aim of the Fund is to link up with individuals, networks and organisations working in the field of poverty; to increase outreach, knowledge of issues (ground realities) and methodologies (tools,analyses) related to poverty; and to contribute to the development of alternative ways of addressing poverty. Initiatives supported can be research studies, action research or awareness raising activities. The fund supported four projects in 2008: |
What is Innovation
The definition of ‘innovation’ was broadened from ‘out of the mainstream’ to include ‘creative’, ‘catalytic’ and ‘exploratory’ elements in the design and implementation of the projects. We recognize that Innovation could be applied at various points of the project/research process from conceptualisation, methodology to presentation of outcomes and are open to new ways of thinking. |
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- GIS for poverty alleviation (this project intends to use GIS techniques to identify special factors causing poverty)
- Understanding student poverty through “kurutu gee”(graffiti) in the universities
- “Rookada Roopana Roosiri’ a project aimed at exchanging knowledge among puppetr
groups in various parts of the country and introducing new puppetry techniques
- Using the abandoned donkeys in Kalpitiya for eradicating poverty
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Click here further information on the Innovation Fund.
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Disbursing the Solidarity Fund (CEPA’s tsunami fund) has been less effective, but at the time of writing a decision has been made to invest the money to assist families displaced by the conflict.
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