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Empowering Communities To Access Rights.

[ECTAR] 2008-2010

Mobilizing a core group of 100 grassroots women-home based workers, weavers, petty traders, paper craft producers and displaced/war affected women [Tamil- Muslim- Sinhala communities] in villages in Amparai district to create an enabling environment for ethnic communities to respect diversity, multi-ethnic identities and need for collective action and solidarity on issues of justice and equity. through an intensive empowerment process to meet the different needs and capacity levels of the outreach groups. This was done through designing training/mobilizing tools to claim rights. An inter-generational approach through sharing peace narratives, life storytelling, folk songs, poetry, drama and games was also used.

Different groups were formed and awareness created on issues such as Inter Ethnic harmony, Gender issues, Gender based violence, Peace building etc. among all groups, in addition specific issues relevant to groups were also discussed and promoted.

Home Based Workers – Elders Group – Young Group)
  • Awareness on class consciousness/poverty
  • Tackling common work related problems & violence issues
  • Facilitating participants to understand basic Gender Issues
  • Forging Inter Ethnic Harmony through women’s stories of own initiatives in times of conflict
  • Oppression and exploitation
  • Understanding violence and Ways to Deal with it
  • Understanding elements of Sustainable Peace & Ethnic Harmony
Women’s Centre Managers and PLC Group
  • Developing Skills of how to understand, identify & analyse problems of the Centre users.
  • Understanding Oppression through a Historical Mapping.
  • Creating safe space to open out own Issues.
  • Understanding Documentation.
  • Encouraging participants to think about sustainable peace and how to forge peace.
People’s Committee
  • Identifying needs to develop skills and improving capacity of PC to handle local issues mainly related to water and collector wells.
Community Development Organisations & Action Group – IDPs Puttlam
  • Basic Social Analysis – Identifying problems, understanding and approach to resolve the issues
  • Continue social analysis through field work exercise and introduce mobilisation concepts
  • Understanding Peace and working towards peace building
  • Peace building through accessing rights (making the interconnections)
People’s Committee Project
As a continuous supply of purified drinking water for the household in the 2 villages [Tamil & Muslim] was an urgent need, the MWRAF team and the ECO in Kalmunai facilitated and monitored the water supply system. The PC was helped to hand over the Collector Wells System. For this a restructuring plan with a representative group of both ethnic communities and a supporting team comprising MWRAF, Rural Dev Societies, Divisional Secretariat, Church, Mosque, School representative, Grama Sevaka, Local council, with the aim to forge a common purpose. This was in order to ensure a sustainable service that is accessible to the community at large.
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