Due to the increasing attention being paid to the need for care on a worldwide scale, a detailed evaluation of its economic significance and contribution to national development is imperative. As a result, pressure will be on legislators to give this problem top priority.
The Social Science Research Council of Canada, the University of Toronto, Verite Research, and Kandy Consulting Group are in the process of conducting a pilot survey to acquire quantitative data.
Currently, Kandy Consulting Group is in partnership with SEO Amsterdam Economics in conducting an extensive impact evaluation exercise for the “Women in Work Sri Lanka” project funded by the Australian Agency for International Development, and implemented by the International Finance Corporation.
Currently we are partnering with the Ministry of Agriculture’s Smallholder Agribusiness Partnerships Programme (SAPP), in uplifting rural farmer communities and supporting rural economic development.
We are collaborating on a project with Kobe University (Japan) and the University of Peradeniya (Sri Lanka) in identifying some of the persistent effects of the Eelam war on present day Sri Lankans.
In addition the study also inquires various impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the financial crisis currently affecting the country.