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 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/