Category Archives: Educational Resources

Mobilizing youth, students, parents and other stakeholders who are actively engaged in the education sector to achieve the Sustainable education goal and its 7 targets is one of the top priority areas of CED Sri Lanka. In this process we identified that a lack of knowledge on SDGs hinder this ambitious vision which we need to achieve in 2030. While we understand the importance of removing these barriers, CED Sri Lanka compiled a booklet on SDGs to develop the knowledge and enhance understanding on SDGs specially SDG4 which plays a significant role to achieve other SDG targets simultaneously. 

This booklet provides an overview  on SDG Goals and its targets, SDG4 goals and targets, challenges that we have to combat in this process and current status of education. The final chapter of the booklet discusses the SDG 4.7 target and main components of Global Citizenship Education.

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The Civil Society spotlight report on SDG 04 closely monitors  the progress achievements and gaps in implementation of the policies and programmes towards achieving SDG 04 in Sri Lanka. The first civil society SDG 04 report has been compiled by CED  in 2019 and the second report released in 2021. This report aims to identify new and emerging challenges around equity, gender, and financing in SDG 4 that were magnified by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and articulate education’s role in the path towards sustainable and resilient recovery. In addition the report  highlights the critical interlinkages of SDG 4 with the other SDGs and discusses the ways education can catalyze actions to achieve the 2030 Agenda. This report could be used to assess the progress that Sri Lanka has made in the previous year. and at the sametime the evidence based recommendation will serve as a solid base to plan effective advocacy .  

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COVID-19 pandemic made a significant negative impact on the education sector demonstrating that considerable years of achievements can be revised within a few days. Many children, youth, adults and partners of the education sector were severely affected by this pandemic and the harsh reality is students and youth from marginalized communities were experienced and still experiencing huge learning losses even though the government introduced new learning modalities. However, to explore the impact of COVID-19 pandemic CED Sri Lanka with the funding and mentoring support of ASPBAE conducted a youth led action research on impact of COVID-19 pandemic for marginalized youth in Sri Lanka.

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Government budgets reflect the government policy priorities for a certain time period. Financial allocation is important in developing any sector and CED Sri Lanka has been involved in budget advocacy activities for a long time. Targeting the national budget in 2021 CED Sri Lanka planned an islandwide campaign with the member organizations in order to lobby the members of parliament to allocate sufficient budget to the education sector. With the prevalent pandemic situation, due to the lock downs, the traditional onsite education system encountered difficulties and to address the issues and continue education online education platforms/methods were introduced. In order to provide online education for the remote and disadvantaged community it is important to develop and increase the infrastructure facilities for the school network. With a national level consultation CED identified and prioritized these proposals. CED requested the member organizations to send the proposals that need to be considered in this process. Followed by the consultation CED Sri Lanka demanded the members of parliament to raise their voice to allocate sufficient funding for the education sector in the budget process. These proposal were published in the National news papers in Sinhala and Tamil languages

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COVID-19 pandemic has become a Global threat to human beings and can be named as the biggest catastrophe in this century. The first Covid infected Sri Lankan person was found in 2020 January and since then the government of Sri Lanka has taken different measures to prevent the spreading of the pandemic.   

Although these actions helped to control the pandemic to some extent, they also  led to a number of negative consequences on the personal, community  and the national level.  

The alternative distance mode and online education system which is widely used to substitute onsite education. These measures further exaggerated already existing disparities in the education system by specially widening the gap of digital divide.    People have demanded the authorities to address these issues and ensure equal access to education continuously. As a response, the government has taken several steps and promised new remedial actions to address these situations. However, actions already taken are not sufficient to minimize the gaps and people are uncertain about the implementation of remedial action in the given socio economic context.  With the technical and financial assistance from ASPBAE CED conducted a study to assess the impact of the pandemic and identify the effectiveness of the remedial measures

Objectives of the study

1. Identify the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education financing in Sri Lanka
2. Categorize key education components and/or sectors and vulnerable groups highly affected by the pandemic; analyze the financing implications and identify the programs or services response/mitigation interventions to mitigate their financing requirements to address these problems   
3. Recognize the good practices utilized to ensure adequate funding, especially for vulnerable learners, most affected by the pandemic, including women and girls, that can be adopted or replicated by other schools, communities and local areas 
4.  Compile actionable recommendations

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This report provides a comprehensive overview about the entire education system in Sri Lanka. This booklet contains all the important policies,acts and updated information on the public school education system and could be used as a resource pack for the facilitators and civil society actors.

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This report focused on the difficulties encountered by the marginalized youth communities in accessing education. Specially LGBTIQ community in Sri Lanka could be considered as one of the most marginalized group who continuously discriminated in all their day to day activities, This study try to gather their expectation in shaping the education in future.

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Given the context of high emphasis on formal education, Adults learning and education is a partially neglected area in Sri Lanka. Most of the people including youth believe that when they completed the formal education (school level) would mean that they have completed their “Education”. There are no adequate systems/procedures to promote adult learning and education In Sri Lanka. With the funding and technical support of ASPBAE CED Sri Lanka conducted a study to assess the existing situation with regard to ALE. In this study CED assessed the available opportunities, reviewed policy frameworks, budget provisions and found the gaps in implementation of the planned activities with regard to ALE in Sri Lanka. The report makes relevant recommendations in order to promote ALE in Sri Lanka.

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