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Syndicated Surveys: Mood of the Nation - Round 04 2023
No full textSyndicated Surveys by Verité Research which gauge public sentiment on Sri Lankans' various social and political viewpoints. The data is collected through a telephone interview and a nationwide randomised sample of around one thousand people is taken into consideration. The Mood of the Nation poll is conducted periodically by Verité Research and is based on an island wide nationally representative sample of responses. The sample and methodology are designed to limit the maximum error margin to under 3% at a 95% confidence interval, which meets the gold standard of surveys. The Mood of the Nation survey is designed to assess the approval, satisfaction, and confidence of the nation in relation to the government, the country, and the economy. The poll is based on an island wide nationally representative sample of responses from 1,000 plus Sri Lankan adults. The poll is conducted as a part of the syndicated survey instrument by Verité Research and the polling partner was Vanguard Survey (Pvt) Ltd. This instrument also provides other organisations the opportunity to survey the sentiments of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Resolution 30/1 Implementation Monitor: Statistical and Analytical Review No. 9
No full text2 slidesA written update on Sri Lanka is scheduled for 11 September at the 54th session of the UNHRC. Verite research's UNHRC monitor is the first and only platform that tracks Sri Lanka's progress on commitments made under resolution 30/1.
What is resolution 30/1
Budget 2024 - Voting Breakdown - Second Reading
No full textThis infographic is available in English and Sinhala.On November 21, 2023, the second reading of the Budget 2024 (Appropriation Bill) was passed with a majority of 45 votes. The following compilation of infographics reflects the list of MPs that voted in favour, against and MPs who were absent during the vote. 122 votes were cast in favour of the bill, while 77 votes were cast against it and 25 MPs were absent
Budget 2024 - Committee Stage Debate - Health
No full textThis infographic is available in English and Sinhala.On November 30, 2023, during the 8th day of the Budget 2024 committee stage debate, the Heads pertaining to the Ministry of Health were passed. This infographic further highlights key takeaways from Minister Ramesh Pathirana's speech
Sri Lanka Met 33 IMF Commitments and failed 8 by end-June
No full textThese infographics were posted on the Public Finance Platform and are in all three languages: English, Sinhala and Tamil.Sri Lanka had verifiably met 33 of the trackable programme commitments of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme as at the end of June 2023 but had failed eight. Growing number of failed commitments, the number of unfulfilled commitments doubled from four (including one partially met) in May, to eight in June 2023. These include, obtaining cabinet approval for the restructuring plan of key State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), enacting new anti-corruption legislation, publishing the annual
reports of all 52 major SOEs for 2022, and preparing a plan to gradually eliminate import restrictions. Sri Lanka is mostly failing in two areas: the passage of legislation, and information dissemination
20230628_P0071_FC_KabirHashim_PovertyLine
No full textThis submission includes English, Sinhala, and Tamil versions of the fact check.TRUE: “…by 2019…the poverty line[sic] of this country was 11%…it has grown to 25% by 2023. I believe it is more than that. But the World Bank has calculated that it is only 25%, which means that out of 22 million in this country, 5.5 million are poor.”
Kabir Hashim, YouTube Page of Parliament of Sri Lanka, 12 May 202
Civil Society Governance Diagnostic Report on Sri Lanka: An Assessment of the Anti-Corruption Landscape of Sri Lanka
Get PDF62p. This report was reviewed and written under the oversight of the Civil Society Initiative on Anti-Corruption Reform for Economic Recovery comprised of PAFFREL, TISL, CPA, Verite Research, Sarvodaya and the National Peace Council of Sri Lanka. This report is also available on the TISL website.This Civil Society Governance Diagnostic Report on the Anti-Corruption Landscape of Sri Lanka (Report), prepared on the basis of extensive local consultation over a two-month period with a range of community and sectoral representatives as well as experts in the key subject areas, focuses on the main governance determiners that have influenced the corruption context in Sri Lanka. It identifies crucial factors that need to be harnessed to facilitate and sustain anti-corruption measures necessary to ensure that Sri Lanka recovers successfully from its current financial crisis making the best use of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Extended Fund Facility (EFF). Based on this input and a study of best practice in similar situations, including the IMF’s own governance diagnostic recommendations recently made in comparable circumstances, the Report assesses progress made, identifies key weaknesses, and provides a list of measures deemed necessary to steer immediate and future reforms. The information used in preparing this report were of five types: they are; (a) national studies/ reports/summaries on core focus areas of the corruption landscape identified in the core group, the Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) and through a snowball approach which led to other studies cited in the initial ones examined ;(b) relevant regional/comparative studies and analyses of similar issues and concerns; (c) the range of related legislation and documents concerned with them; (d) journalistic and more public-oriented pieces on the governance-corruption nexus; and (e) relevant IMF conceptual documents and country reports
Syndicated Surveys: Taxing EPF Returns (October 2023)
No full textThis IKR entry contains 03 infographics, available in English, Sinhala and Tamil77% of Sri Lankan adults think that the government’s decision to reduce returns on the retirement savings in the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF), in the pursuit of domestic debt restructuring (DDR), was not necessary and/or not done in a fair manner, according to a Syndicated Surveys poll. This finding is from a survey round conducted in October 2023. Respondents were read out this information: “To help recover from the debt crisis the government reduced the returns on the retirement savings in the EPF". They were then read out two statements, and for each, asked if they agreed or not.1) It was necessary to do it 2) It was done in a fair manner. Only 10% agreed with both statements — that it was necessary and done in a fair manner. 13% had no opinion or didn’t know about this issue. 44% of the respondents disagreed with both statements and 33% disagreed with one of the two. Therefore, collectively 77% think it was either not necessary to do it and/or that it was not done in a fair manner. Sri Lanka completed a unique domestic debt restructuring (DDR) in September 2023, in which local currency debt restructuring exclusively targeted the retirement provident funds of formal sector workers. The banking and financial sector, as well as private creditors and most public sector workers (that have a separate government pension scheme), were excluded. This might have set a new global precedent in DDR for adverse rather than preferential treatment of retirement funds. The survey was based on an island-wide, nationally representative sample of responses from 1,029 Sri Lankan adults. The poll has a maximum error margin below ±3.1% at a 95% confidence interval
Parliamentary report card: Ali Sabri Raheem – August 2020 to March 2023
No full textThis infographic is available in English, Sinhala and Tamil.This report card shows the contribution of MP Ali Sabri Raheem (MNA) in the 9th parliament. It is based on analysis of Hansard data from August 2020 to March 2023. This includes overall rank (218/225), Puttalam district rank (8/8), attendance in parliament sittings (190/251), total number of productive interventions he made in parliament (6) and topics which were discussed most by him in the parliament i.e., National Heritage, Media and Sports; Labour & Employment; Justice, Defense and Public Order
20231003_FC_P0083_RanjithSiyambalapitiya_CasinoTaxes
No full textThis submission includes English, Sinhala, and Tamil versions of the fact check.PARTLY TRUE: […] Effective April 1, 2023, we hope to impose a fee of USD 50 on every Sri Lankan who enters such a place of business of gaming. This law was in place since 2015. From 2015, the stated law was to charge USD 100 from a person, but not a cent has been charged yet over these eight years. We only commenced charging this amount this year. […] By starting with an entrance fee of USD 50 and increasing it to USD 200, we hope that… the participation of Sri Lankans will be greatly reduced.
Ranjith Siyambalapitiya, Manthri.lk Watch, 9 August 202