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Promoting pro poor low carbon developments strategies in South Asia
ශ්‍රී ලංකාව තුළ අවම කාබන් සංවර්ධන උපායමාර්ග ප්‍රවර්ධනය කිරීමේ ව්‍යාපෘතිය
Project Duration:
0ne years in the 2015 April-2016 March.
Sri Lanka: IDEA: Integrated Development Association (www.ideasrilanka.org)
Contacts: 
Dumindu Indika Herath ,  duminduherath@gmail.com
R.M. Amerasekera,  amare@sltnet.lk

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Impacts of Climate change are increasingly becoming a factor that hinders the wellbeing of the global community.  Anthropogenic carbon emissions are identified as one of the major causes of global warming and climate change. Adoption and dependency on fossil fuels are emphasized as one of the major reasons to the release of significant amounts of Carbon to the atmosphere.  Hence, to mitigate these emissions, adoption of more cleaner and low carbon development technologies is imperative. This is where global action is required.  Statistically, developed nations are the highest contributors of Carbon emissions.  This does not imply that impacts would be confined only to their respective regions but to the whole global atmosphere. Therefore, this issue provides no liberty for both developed and developing nations to not act on finding solutions in mitigating the effects of climate change. This is where global action, agreements and defining roles become ambiguous. However, taken in to consideration the adverse impacts a country should face, taking action at a national level, under a national agenda is easier to decide upon.
Context
Climate change being a global issue, the most vulnerable to its impacts are the more marginalized and poor communities worldwide- especially in developing nations.  Adaptation, mitigation and resilience to climate change are the key factors required to build upon to deal with adverse impacts of Climate change through the introduction of appropriate Low carbon development technologies.  However, to propagate these technologies , formulation of appropriate Low Carbon Development policies are required to be developed and embedded in national development agendas and planning , with thorough attention on strategies which would not hinder the development process while preserving a sound environment.  Development of such a framework should allow financial and technical access for the promotion of solutions.  This is where the role of national decision makers and policy makers and advocacy become increasingly important.  One of the key targets of this project is to advocate low carbon development strategies and technologies to be included in Climate change policies and action plans in Sri Lanka.


IDEA Activities, News and Events on the Project
Documentation of Case studies

  1. Indoor Air Pollution and Kitchen Improvement case study
  2. Brick Production case study

Local Network Meeting- 22nd January 2015
Project Activities: Raising awareness and Discussion on Climate change, UNFCCC agreements on Climate Change –specifically on COP21
A network meeting was organized by IDEA with the intention of raising awareness of IDEA activities and outcomes of COP21 summit held in Paris, 2015 by United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC). This network event also marked the commemoration of 25years of IDEA services.  This event was  jointly held with the intention of fulfilling objecive  of  the projects “Promoting pro poor low carbon developments strategies in South Asia” and Evidence Based, Low Carbon, Pro-Poor Advocacy on Sustainable Eco-Village Development (EVD) with the contributions from IDEA. The COP21 awareness and discussion session was chaired by Mr Amerasekera , CEO of IDEA, Mr Leelasena,IDEA director board member and Prof Anoja wickramasinghe, Faculty of Geography , University of Peradeniya.
Mr Amerasekera initiated the session providing a background on Climate Change concerns. Professor Anoja Wickramsinghe gave a historical background on COP agreements and the latest outcomes of COP21 Paris agreements.
Involved projects
   Main Intervention

  1.   Promoting pro poor low carbon development strategies in South Asia”.

                                               
   Contributor

  1.  “Evidence Based Advocacy for low-Carbon, pro-poor sustainable” Eco Village Development” (EVD) in South Asia”
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National Dialogue meeting/National event- 12th November 2015

LCD contributions:

M r W M Leelasena providing a background on Low Carbon Development Solutions and interventions implemented by IDEA (Integrated Development Association)
IDEA together with Janathakshan hosted a national workshop to brief  national stakeholders on Low Carbon development and Low Carbon Eco village Development projects.  

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Involved projects

  1. “Promoting pro poor low carbon developments in South Asia”.
  2. “Evidence Based Advocacy for low-Carbon, pro-poor sustainable” Eco Village Development” (EVD) in South Asia”

Contributions to Organic farming/Home Gardening Awareness and training workshop – Galahitiyagama
A home gardening awareness and training workshop was held in Galahitiyagama village, Pallepola on the 16th of January, 2016. The objectives of this event is to raise awareness on the importance of organic farming /Home gardening in terms of health, household economy and standard of living, behavioral changes and dealing with impacts of Climate Change. This event was held at the village temple with the Venerable monk facilitating the temple hall for the awareness meeting. Mr Ranjith Senaratne from Sri Lanka Farmers Network and IDEA Project Director Mr S D Abayawardana participated as resource persons. Mr Ranjith Senaratne’s lecture was mainly based on the importance of organic farming which was followed by an interactive discussion with the villagers on the obstacles of home gardening from there past experience. Mr  S D Abayawardana was  able to provide a glimpse of Sri Lankan traditional home gardens. Project coordinator of IDEA, Mr Dumindu Herath, Arunalu Secretary, Mr Lionel Perera , Arunalu President, Mr thilakaratne, Grama Niladhari (Village officer) and village development officials participated in this event. 
After the main awareness, an on field training was given to the participants on how to prepare land for better agricultural use-techniques- and preparation of organic fertilizers and pesticides.

Main Intervention

  1. “Evidence Based Advocacy for low-Carbon, pro-poor sustainable” Eco Village Development” (EVD) in South Asia”         

 
  Contributor

2. "Promoting pro poor low carbon development strategies in South Asia”.

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Contributions to Village planning meetings 24 and 25th October 2015  – In two villages in Matale District
LCD contribution to the activitiy: Mr Leelasena , Director Board, IDEA gave a lecture/talk on climate change , its impacts and how low Carbon development solutions help to mitigate the impacts of climate change. (Mr Amerasekera and Mr Dumindu Herath contributed in organizing the meetings)
IDEA together with Arunalu organized a meeting for the villagers in Hapugasyaya and Dalupothagama to get the valuable inputs from villagers to structure a village developmet plan using PRA tools -to extract the information and feedback from the villagers .This is as one of the project activities under a similar project – Evidence Based Advocacy for pro poor low Carbon Eco Village Dvelopment in South Asia.   IDEA Director board member Mr Leelasena,  IDEA Project coordinator Mr Dumindu Herath, Arunalu Secretary Mr Lional Perera and two external planning consultants conducted the respective meetings at  Hapugasyaya  (24th) and Dalupothagama (25th).

Mr Leelasena Briefing the audience on Climate change and Low Carbon Dvelopment in Dalupothagama
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Contributions to Village planning meeting 19th september 2015  – Galahitiyagama
LCD contribution to the activitiy: Mr Leelasena , Director Board, IDEA gave a lecture/talk on climate change , its impacts and how low Carbon development solutions help to mitigate the impacts of climate change.
IDEA together with Arunalu organized a meeting for the villagers in Galahitiyagama to get the valuable inputs from villagers to structure a village developmet plan using PRA tools -to extract the information and feedback from the villagers .This is as one of the project activities under a similar project – Evidence Based Advocacy for pro poor low Carbon Eco Village Dvelopment in South Asia.  IDEA CEO Mr Amerasekera, IDEA Director board member Mr Leelasena,  IDEA Project coordinator Mr Dumindu Herath, Arunalu Secretary Mr Lional Perera and two external planning consultants conducted the meeting activities at the village temple with the participation of over  80 villagers.

Involved projects
   Main Intervention

  1. “Evidence Based Advocacy for low-Carbon, pro-poor sustainable” Eco Village Development” (EVD) in South Asia”

   Contributor

  1.   Promoting pro poor low carbon developments in South Asia”.

Mr Leelasena of IDEA giving a briefing on the objectives of the meeting

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Villagers involved in the social and resource mapping exercise

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Contributions to Advocacy event on “Low Carbon Eco Village Development as a solution for Climate change” held on the 16th of July, 2015 in Pallepola.

IDEA together with local partner “Arunulu” organized an advocacy event for the planning and development officials, civil organizations and other relevant stakeholders based in Pallepola and Naula DS divisions. This workshop was to raise awareness on climate change , adaptation and mitigation options and to set the background for the Eco village development project  to be carried out in three villages under the two divisions.  The projects linked to this advocacy are “Evidence Based Advocacy for low-Carbon, pro-poor sustainable” Eco Village Development” (EVD) in South Asia” and “Promoting low carbon developments in Sri Lanka”.
Involved projects
   Main Intervention

  1. “Evidence Based Advocacy for low-Carbon, pro-poor sustainable” Eco Village Development” (EVD) in South Asia”

   Contributor

2.Promoting pro poor low carbon developments in South Asia”.

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    සංවිධානයේ පසුබිම
    ඒකාබද්ධ සංවර්ධන සංගමය
    Integrated Development Association (IDEA)   
    විකල්ප තිරසාර බලශක්ති ප්‍රභේධයන් ග්‍රාමීය ජනතාවට හඳුන්වාදීම පෙරදැරි කොටගෙන 1990 වර්ෂයේ බිහිකරන ලද  ඒකාබද්ධ සංවර්ධන සංගමය, ලාභ නොලබන රාජ්‍ය නොවන සංවිධානයක් ලෙස රජයේ ලියාපදිංචි කර පවත්වා ගෙන යනු ලැබෙයි. IDEA ආයතනයේ ප්‍රධාන අරමුණ වන්නේ ස්වභාවික සම්පත් කළමනාකරණය, සංවර්ධනය සහ සංරක්ෂණය සඳහා සක්‍රීය දායකත්වයක් දීම  තුලින් තිරසාර සංවර්ධනයට උර දීමය. මෙම ආයතනය, ගෙවුණු විසිපස් වසරක් පුරාවට  ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ග්‍රාමීය ප්‍රජාවගේ බලශක්ති අවශ්‍යතා සපුරාලමින්, ග්‍රාමීය තිරසාර සංවර්ධනයෙහිලා සම්මානනීය මෙහෙවරක් කල ආයතනයක් ලෙස හැදින්වීමට පුළුවන.
    සංවිධානයේ දැක්ම හා මෙහෙවර
    ඒකාබද්ධ සංවර්ධන සංගමයේ ආයාසය වන්නේ මිනිසුන් හා පරිසරය අතර සහජීවනයක් ඇති කිරීම සහ සමාජයේ සියළු ජන කොටස්වලට තම ජීවිතය පිලිබඳ මනා පාලනයක් ඇති කර ගැනීමට අවශ්‍ය තාක්ෂණය දියුණු කිරීමට හා පරිහරණයට මනා හැකියාවක් ලබාදීම මඟින් තිරසාර සංවර්ධනයට දායකවීමයි.
    සංවිධානයේ ව්‍යුහය
    අධ්‍යක්ෂ මණ්ඩලය විසින් ගනු ලබන තීරණයන්ට අනුකූලව විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂකගේ අධීක්ෂණය හා වැඩසටහන් අධ්‍යක්ෂකගේ මෙහෙයවීම අනුව ව්‍යපෘති සම්බන්ධීකාරකයින් හරහා ව්‍යපෘති නිලධාරීන් මඟින් ක්ෂේත්‍ර කටයුතු හා අනෙකුත් සියළු කටයුතු ක්‍රියාත්මක කරනු ලබයි.
    ආයතනයේ ප්‍රමුඛ නිපුණතා ක්ෂේත්‍රයන්

    1. ජෛව ස්කන්ධ  බලශක්ති සංරක්ෂණය
    2. පරිසර සංරක්ෂණය
    3. පුනර්ජනනීය බලශක්තිය
    4. ජෛව විවිධත්ව සංරක්ෂණය සහ  පාරිසරික කෘෂිකර්මාන්තය
    5. දේශගුණික විපර්යාස හා ඊට අනුගත විය හැකි ක්‍රමෝපාය පිළිබඳ උපදේශනය හා පුහුණුව

    සම්මාන සහ ඇගයීම්

      • 2015 වර්ෂයේදී පවත්වන ලද ශ්‍රී ලංකා ජාතික බලශක්ති කාර්යක්ෂමතා සම්මාන උළලේදී  ජීවිතයට එක්වරක් පමණක් පිරිනැමෙන  “රක්ත ජ්වාල සම්මානය”, ඒකාබද්ධ සංවර්ධන සංගමයේ  අධ්‍යක්ෂ ආර් ඇම් අමරසේකර මහතාට, අතිගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමා අතින් පිරිනැමිණි.
      • 2007 ලෝක පවිත්‍ර බලශක්ති සම්මාන උළෙලේදී, ඒකාබද්ධ සංවර්ධන සංගමය විසින් මෙහෙයවන ලද “වැඩිදියුණු කරන ලද  කාර්යක්ෂම දර උඳුන් ව්‍යාපෘතිය” සාර්ථකම බලශක්ති ව්‍යාපෘතියක් ලෙස නිර්දේශ වීම.
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