The Centre for Environment and Development (CED) will be organizing a series of Consultations and Transformation Labs on “Policy Coherence for Reforms in Sri Lanka” in 2025 in collaboration with a host of national and provincial partners. A first of its kind, the initiative will attempt to draw multiple outcomes with key impact on the Policy-Political-Public-Peoples Reforms in the country. We are also inviting interested organizations to collaborate and support the initiative.

On the 1st of November 2024, The Centre for Environment and Development (CED) entered into an agreement with the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) on behalf of the Sri Lanka Reforms Brains Trust (SLRBT) to conduct a first-ever Policy Coherence Mapping for Sri Lanka. In the months to come CED will be conducting a series of Stakeholder Consultations and organizing Transformation Labs for Policy Reforms at the national level and in the provinces. The Center for Environment and Development (CED) has accreditation with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and has contributed to a vast number of international and national policy processes during the past two and a half decades. Since 2018, CED has been conducting Independent Monitoring, Evaluation & Review of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs. This has resulted in many outcomes including a Voluntary Peoples Review (VPR), Peoples Score Card (PSC) and a Domestic Resource Mobilization Framework (DRMF). This year we are adding the first-ever Policy Coherence Mapping in Sri Lanka. This initiative intends the following.

•       To enhance the understanding of the policy spectrum, fragmentation, incoherence and contradictions

•       To assist the policy reforms process in adopting a systems redesign/design approach

•       To assist the selection of policy reforms interventions and facilitate convergence between the different recommendations

•       To enhance impact measurement for proposed policy reforms

•       To assist policy coherence planning for reforms proposals

 

Stakeholder consultations and transformation labs will be organized to engage those who can assist in mapping the policy spectrum and conducting critical analysis and assessments. Therefore, we will collaborate with key government ministries and agencies, provincial and local government authorities, think tanks/research organizations, and other independent organizations including key stakeholders from academics, the private sector, CSOs and other Major Groups.