Socio-economic Development
Research projects looking at socio-economic development in Sri Lanaka and the impacts of Covid-19, post civil war social reconstruction, reconciliation and poverty reduction.
In 2024, Kandy Consulting Group Pvt. Ltd has provided service as ‘data collector' to Compassion International Lanka (CIL), a child development organization for implementing a micro field survey of “Youth Satisfaction Measurement Survey and Children and Youth (Level 02) Outcome Measurement Survey” in the selected project locations in Sri Lanka.
The project locations were spread across several provinces including Western, North-Western, Uva, Eastern, Central and Southern.
In 2024, Kandy Consulting Group Pvt (ltd), conducted a pilot survey in partnership with Verité Research, an independent research institute in Sri Lanka. This is a part of a large International Research Project Spanning through Nine Countries.
Locally, The Research Is Led by Prof. Dileni Gunewardena and Co-Led by Mr. Kanishka Werawella. The Purpose of this Research Is to Explore How Families in Sri Lanka Provide Paid and Unpaid Care for Children, Older Adults, And Disabled Family Members, As Well As to Identify Unmet Care Needs.
This research project was initiated in 2024 by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in partnership with local collaborators, including the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS), United Nations agencies (WFP, UNICEF, and FAO), Wayamba University, Peradeniya University, Jaffna University, and Eastern University. Kandy Consulting Group (Pvt.) Ltd. is providing field survey consultancy services for the research project, which is scheduled to run from November 2024 to February 2025.
The survey covered all 25 districts of Sri Lanka to represent the entire country. Its primary aim was to assess the nutritional status, food security, food expenditure, agricultural production, livelihoods, access to water and energy, climate change impacts, and women’s empowerment among Sri Lankans.
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This research project was initiated in 2024 by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in partnership with local collaborators, including the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Wayamba University, Peradeniya University, the Industrial Technology Institute, and the Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute (HARTI).
Kandy Consulting Group (Pvt.) Ltd. provided field survey consultancy services for the research project during the survey period, which ran from June 2024 to August 2024
The purpose of this research was to assess the nutritional status of Sri Lankans, understand the production and consumption of fruit and vegetables, and explore what different interventions can help to increase production and consumption. The surveyed area spans across two districts, Ratnapura and Badulla, encompassing a total of 7 Divisional Secretariat (DS) divisions, 57 Grama Niladhari (GN) divisions, and 125 villages.
In 2021 KCG undertook an electronic based data collection exercise for a Covid-19 socio-economic impact analysis in Sri Lanka for the World Bank, named the 'Sri Lanka South Asian Region COVID-19 Monitoring Phone Survey'.
This included a SurveyCTO based Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI) of 5072 respondents which analysed the impact of Covid-19 on household income, health, education, employment and children’s schooling.
In 2018 KCG was extensively involved in a data collection exercise for a research collaboration between Kobe University, Japan and the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka on Social Reconstruction, Reconciliation and Poverty Reduction following the Civil War in Sri Lanka.
This project funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) saw the collection of survey data from 1,600 households in the former conflict affected Northern and Eastern provinces in the country. While round 1 of this longitudinal survey gathered data on effects of conflict on income, health, education, employment, marriage and overall subjective well-being, round 2 of this data collection exercise is currently underway in September 2022.
Between 2014 and 2020, Kandy Consulting Group was involved in several large scale, longitudinal and experiment based surveys in Sri Lanka for the Pluralistic Memories Project, a multi sited research study on conflict memories and transitional justice, implemented simultaneously in Burundi, Israeli-Palestine and Sri Lanka.
The Project was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, under the Swiss Programme for Research on Global Issues for Development, and implemented by a research group at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and hosted locally by the International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES) Sri Lanka. The work involved surveys incorporating random sampling, network sampling and a mix of both, spanning sample sizes of 400, 1200 and 1800 throughout Sri Lanka.
Project website: https://wp.unil.ch/pmp/