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S3278_Pavithradevi R_CEB profits and electricity access
No full textThis submission includes English, Sinhala, and Tamil versions of the fact check.PARTLY TRUE: In 2014… we did so much work and reduced the electricity bill by 25 percent. – Pavithradevi Wanniarachchi, DailyNews, 14 March 2022
MPs Attendance in Parliament - May 2022
No full textThis infographic is available in English, Sinhala and TamilParliament was convened on the 8th, 10th, 11th, 22nd, 24th and 25th of May 2022. This infographic shows Sri Lankan MPs attendance in Parliament during this period
Diversity Impact on Vaccine Equity (DIVE) in Sri Lanka November 2021
No full textThis submission includes English, Sinhala (එන්නත්කරණ සමානාත්මතාවය කෙරෙහි වාර්ගික විවිධත්වයේ බලපෑම: නොවැම්බර් 2021), and Tamil (
இலங்கையில் சமத்துவமாக தடுப்பூசி வழங்குதல் சார்ந்த பல்வேறுபட்ட தாக்கங்கள்) versions of the bulletin.Covid-19 has shed light on ongoing disparities in vaccine access and confidence among different ethnic groups worldwide. Verité Research conducted a study to analyze social media content shared on Covid-19 vaccine confidence, uptake, and access among three ethnic groups in Sri Lanka—Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims. This study was financially supported by Minority Rights Group International. The purpose of the study was to identify how social media can be used to understand the degree of vaccine confidence and uptake among different ethnic groups, and their access to vaccines.
The study highlights five key findings:
Most online conversations on Covid-19 vaccination across the sample of Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim social media users related to confidence in the Covid-19 vaccine. However, there were varying degrees of concern among these ethnic groups in relation to their confidence in vaccines;
Ethnicity was a statistically significant factor affecting the degree of Covid-19 vaccine confidence in Sri Lanka. Muslim (75 per cent) and Tamil (67 per cent) social media users were more likely to have low confidence or no confidence in Covid-19 vaccines in comparison to Sinhala (58 per cent) social media users in the sample;
From among the reasons for low vaccine confidence, vaccine safety was the main concern that emerged from online conversations monitored on the Covid-19 vaccine;
Most concerns on vaccine safety emerged from Muslim social media users (46 per cent); and
Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim social media users showed a higher degree of confidence in the Pfizer-BioNTech and/or Moderna vaccines than in the Sinopharm vaccine.
The findings of this study are specific to the social media monitoring that Verité Research conducted on Facebook and Twitter from 1 January 2021 to 31 October 2021. Verité Research analysed a sample of 1,276 Facebook comments and tweets (including replies to tweets) with respect to the sentiment expressed on:
Covid-19 vaccine confidence;
Reservations towards vaccines;
Access to vaccines; and
Distrust in health and/or other government authorities to administer vaccines and distrust in the vaccine-related information disseminated by these actors.This bulletin was published in the context of Minority Right's Group (MRG) International Diversity: Impact on Vaccine Equality (DIVE) programme (2021-2022)
Parliament Summary – August 2022
No full textThis infographic is available in English, Sinhala and TamilThis parliament summary for August 2022 provides following details: number of parliament sittings (7), written questions asked (0) and answered (0), adjournment motion (2) and most contributed MP (Kanchana Wijesekera) to it, motion at adjournment time (1), Speaker’s announcements (8), Bills – tabled (16), debated (1), regulations (0), orders (0), private member’s bills – incorporation interest bills (5), questions by private notice (4), points of order - technical (8) and disruptive (0), Expunged statements (5) and most responsible MP (Thushara Indunil Amarasena - 2)
Parliamentary report card: Pavithradevi Wanniarachchi – September 2015 to March 2020 and August 2020 to January 2022
No full textThis infographic is available in English, Sinhala and TamilThis report card shows the contribution of MP Pavithradevi Wanniarachchi (SLPP) in 8th and 9th parliaments. It is based on analysis of Hansard data from September 2015 to March 2020 (8th) and August 2020 to January 2022 (9th). This includes attendance in parliament sittings (170/414; 80/134), total number of productive interventions she made in parliament (8th - 48; 9th -103) and topics which were discussed most by her in the parliament i.e. Governance, Administration and Parliamentary Affairs, Justice, Defense and Public Order, Urban Planning, Infrastructure and Transportation, Health and Economy and Finance
Most active MPs in parliament in February 2022
No full textThis infographic is available in English and SinhalaThis Infographic shows the most active MPs in the 9th Parliament in February 2022. They are Johnston Fernando - SLPP, M.U.M. Ali Sabry - SLPP, Lakshman Kiriella – SJB, Bandula Gunawardane – SLPP and Shanakiyan Rasamanickam - ITAK
The Government Spent Only 10.6% of The Itukama COVID-19 Fund Balance
No full textThis entry contains 01 infographic available in English. It is also available on the Public Finance Platform.On the 23rd of March 2020, President Gotabaya Rajapaksha initiated the “Itukama” COVID-19 Healthcare and Social Security Fund. The fund’s purpose was to “strengthen the mitigation activities aimed at controlling the spread of the COVID-19 virus in the country and related social welfare programmes”. The fund was financed through donations received from organizations and individuals. In order to assess how the fund has been utilized, Verité Research filed a Right to Information (RTI) request with the Presidential Secretariat on the 21st of October 2021. In response to this RTI request filed, data was received on 19th November 2021, where the Presidential Secretariat outlined that the total fund balance as of 30th September 2021, was over LKR 1,800 million. However, only 10.6% (LKR 197.5 million) of this amount has been spent. The breakdown of the spending is depicted in the following infographic
ශෙහාන් කරුණාතිලකට බුකර් සම්මානය හිමිවීම පිළිබඳ පළවූ සිරස්තල කීපයක්
No full textThis entry includes a write-up and infographic (both in Sinhala).OnThis infographic presents the headlines from October 19, 2022 that were published in Ada, Aruna and Mawbima regarding Shehan Karunatilaka winning the 2022 Booker Prize for his book 'The Seven Moons of Mali Almeida'
How young is the newly appointed Cabinet?
No full textThis infographic is available in EnglishThese infographics show the age groups of the newly appointed cabinet ministers in the 9th parliament. There are 7 ministers in the age group of 30-50 years and 6 ministers in age group of 50-60 years. There are 6 ministers in the age group of 60 years or above. Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekara is the youngest (39 years) minister while Foreign Affairs Minister G.L. Peiris is the oldest (75 years) minister in the cabinet
Budget 2022: Second reading vote
No full textThis infographic is available in English, Sinhala and TamilThese infographics show how MPs voted on the second reading of the 2022 interim budget in September. 120 votes received in favour and 5 votes received against. 56 were absent while 43 were abstained. It also shows how the political parties voted