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    An Evaluation on Welfare Process for Female Inmates (With Reference to Female Ward - Walikada)
    (University of Kelaniya, 2007) Kumudu Sumedha
    Prisons today are more civilized in regime and conditions. Welfare facilities at prisoners' have been up grated due to the human right discourse in the society. Since Women are considered as a vulnerable group in any community, 1 selected female prisoners to my research. This study focuses on welfare process of prison with special emphasis on females. This is a qualitative research. The researcher uses Case Study Method and Functional Method. Both primary and secondary data are used in this research. To collect primary data researcher uses interviews and observations. The sample is consists of 25 prisoners in female ward attach to the Welikada Prison. Secondary data are obtained from the books and magazines. Prisoner's welfare branch organizes welfare activities such as Educational, Spiritual and Vocational training with the collaboration of external institutions. And there are special welfare programs such as Home Leave Scheme. Consultancy Services, and Residential Medical Facilities. Despite these, there arc welfare problems such as lack of welfare officers, Less space for prisoners, less motivation to join welfare programs, lack of sanitary facilities etc. Although these problems cannot be solved immediately a few of them can be settle to a fair extent. Once that can be settled in this manner are issues related to motivation, leadership and supervision. According to data gathered improving relationship between inmates and staff, exercising more supervision. explaining the benefit of the existing programmes of work to inmates are a few steps that can be taken to solve this problem.
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    An Evaluation on Welfare Process for Female Inmates with Reference to Female Ward – Walikada
    (University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom, 2007) Kumudu Sumedha
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    Impact of community empowerment projects in household decision making autonomy of Estate women
    (Culture, Globalization and the Developing World, 2nd ICSS, 2013) Kumudu Sumedha
    Empowerment of women is an important approach in the development discourse. Empowerment, which is greatly used in relation to women, ethnic minorities and other marginalized groups and related to provide strength and confidence. Empowerment of women refers to giving decision-making power to women in social, economic and political sphere of life. The process of empowerment should start from our own home. Women?s position in the household determines women?s autonomy in the family. This paper present finding from a study focused on Plantation Community Empowerment Project (PCEP) which has been implemented in the estate sector. Empowerment of estate women is one of wide aspects of this project. The objective of the study was to identify the impact of women?s empowerment programs to women's autonomy in house hold decision making. This research has collected both qualitative and quantitative data. A household survey together with Key Informants? Interviews (KIIs), Focused Group Discussions (FGDs), and observations have been used to collect data. The household survey sample focused on 200 estate women and their family units in two selected estates in Ambagamuwa Divisional Secretariat Division in Nuwara Eliya District. The study reveals the women?s autonomy through the decision making power on different aspects of life such as household money management on child education and daily expenditures, self-health care and freedom of movements to the market.
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    Impact of new housing scheme of estate workers on their improvement of livelihood (A comparative study of two settlements)
    (Department of Sociology, University of Kelaniya) Kumudu Sumedha; Subasinghe, Wasantha
    Due to the labour shortage for plantation works the British administration had to depend on Indian labour force. After bringing them to Sri Lankan estates, they have given ?line rooms? with poor facilities. Those plantation Tamils have been living as a segregated community in the plantation areas today even. But, after the independent governments concerned more on the improvement of the estate workers livelihood. As a result of that the Plantation Human Development Trust and the National Housing Development Authority played a key role in introducing new housing schemes for estate people. Therefore, this study has focused on two selected housing settlements in estate Poyston and estate Carolina in Ambagamuwa divisional secretariat division, Nuwara Eliya district, Sri Lanka. The main objective of the study was to identify the impact of the new housing settlements which were carried out by the government in the plantation sector as an alternative to the contemporary line rooms. This study has taken two research strategies namely, Survey Method and Comparative Method. Key informants? Interviews, Focused Group Discussions (FGDs), and observation also conducted. A significant change in the workers livelihood can be identified in both settlements. But it depends on the type of the house and the facilities it included.
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    The Impact of Women Empowerment Programs on Upcountry Tea Estate Women in Sri Lanka
    (International Journal of Scientific Research and Innovative Technology, 2015) Kumudu Sumedha
    The term ‘women empowerment’ is a popular concept in the development discourse. However the empirical data regarding empowerment is not much available. Therefore, this study has focused on assessing the impact of women’s empowerment programs which were implemented in the estate sector by the government as well as by NGOs in Sri Lanka. Basically, the study has focused on two main empowerment programs called Plantation Development Program (PDP) and Plantation Community Empowerment Project (PCEP) by the Government and the Care International as well. Most of the development plans do not assess the effect of empowerment programs that can be implemented within communities. Therefore, the objective of this study was to examine the ongoing approaches and the strategies related to empowerment of women.
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    Rehabilitation and aftercare of drug related women prisoners in Sri Lanka
    (Culture, Globalization and the Developing World, 2nd ICSS, 2013) Subasinghe, Wasantha; Kumudu Sumedha
    Many people grasping to drugs faced difficulty to detach themselves from the spell of drugs. Therefore, the number of drug related prisoners are increasing. This group has defined ?drug-related prisoners? as prisoners who are in custody for drug related offenses. The ratio of drug offenders in prison is relatively high. Moreover, there is an increasing number of female drug related prisoners. Therefore, this study is basically focused on female drug-related prisoners in Welikada and Kaluthara prisons. These drug-dependents have a high tendency of recidivism. The one of basic criticisms was that prisons do not take sufficient actions to reduce recidivism. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to review the rehabilitation and aftercare needs of this group and to propose an agenda to strengthen countermeasures available in prisons to reduce recidivism. This study has both qualitative and quantitative approach. Survey method and case study method were used to collect primary data. In addition, key informant interviews with several officers has been conducted. The survey sample consisted of 50 female drug-related prisoners and 10 case studies. Findings indicate that the imprisoned women are confronted with numerous severe and wide ranging problems. Moreover, recidivism ratio also high among them. It can be described through the process of imprisonment from arrest to release. Therefore the rehabilitation process is the most important factor in this regard. The rehabilitation programs in the prisons are inadequate and outdated. New rehabilitation process needs to be implemented to help drug-related female prisoners reintegrate into the society.
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    Socio economic issues of the war affected fisheries community in Sri Lanka (with reference to the Eastern province of Sri Lanka)
    (Global network for economic and social sustainability, 2013) Kumudu Sumedha; Subasinghe, W.
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    Strategic cities development project (SCDP)
    (2014) Kumudu Sumedha; Karunathilake, K.
    The Project The project, Strategic Cities Development Program (SCDP) as a common platform where the World Bank (WB) embarks on the first phase of development for two pilot cities, Kandy and Galle. It aims to bring about city transformation through strategic investments by leveraging on the city/city region‟s particular sociocultural and economic assets. The subproject is Grater Galle City Development Project (GGCDP) and under the GGCDP, there are several subproject activities identified focusing the main city Greater Galle and subordinating urban centres, namely Hikkaduwa and Weligama. There are seven prioritized project activities identified in year 1 – 2014. This Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) covers the resettlement impact of Moragoda Ela (Moragoda Canal) improvement activity comes under the GGCDP. Subproject Activity Moragoda Ela is a canal situated in eastern direction of Greater Galle city. It starts from Maagalle and ends in Hiriburegama area of Galle city. Its coordinates are 6°1'60" N and 80°13'60" E in DMS (Degrees Minutes Seconds) or 6.03333 and 80.2333 (in decimal degrees). Especially, Moragoda Ela is located in Eastern direction of the city. When compared with other canals it is fairly long and crossing a major part of the city. The total length of the canal is about 6 km and the proposed project activity has focused 4.3 km. The proposed project activity starts from Pettigala Watta GND to Dangedara East GND. Maagalle is the GND next to Pettigala Watta interfacing beach area near Sothern Naval Base and Galle Harbour. It crosses Galle Matara Main road. The Moragoda Ela meets sea between Southern Naval Base and Galle Harbour. When pass Pettigala Watta the next GND is, Then, Moragoda Ela is passing through Maagalle, Pettigala Watta, Makuluwa, Miliduwa, Thalapitiya, Madawalamulla South, Dedugoda North, Dedugoda South, and Dangedara East GNDs. Therefore, both canal banks will be developed with road access or a walking path either side of the canal. Road side will be widening up to 4.5 meters and walking path will be 3 meters. The total acreage of affected land identified on indicative width (3 meters and 4.5 Meters) of canal bank is 380 perches.
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