First South Asian regional launch of the findings of the Open Budget Index (OBI)
The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) along with the International Budget Partnership (IBP), a Washington DC based non-profit organization and the Affiliated Network for Social Accountability (ANSA), a regional network based at BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh organized the first South Asian regional launch of the findings of the Open Budget Index (OBI) in Colombo on...
Statement on the Eighteenth Amendment Bill
The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) was the only civil society organisation in Sri Lanka to go to the Supreme Court on the 18 Amendment, which was passed in Parliament on 8 September 2010. Significant concerns over the 18th Amendment are captured in a press release first sent out on 3 September 2010, reproduced below....
Parliamentary Elections 2010: Election day media communiqu? No 1
8 April 2010, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1.30pm: Polls for the Parliamentary Elections opened at 7 am this morning. A few major incidents of pre-poll violence against party supporters and polling agents were reported to the Centre for Monitoring Elections (CMEV). Following the commencement of polls a significant number of incidents mainly related to the continuing...
Monitoring election violence in Sri Lanka Parliamentary Election 2010: Media Communique 4
26 March 2010, Colombo, Sri Lanka: CMEV notes with concern the actions of election officials which violate the integrity of the electoral process, the very process they are charged with protecting. Postal Voting CMEV received reports of 28 postal voting related incidents at the closure of postal voting on 26th March. CMEV also received reports of...
The Slide
Article by Dr. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, published in Daily Mirror, 7 March 2010 The SlideThe Slide
Presidential Election 2010: Election Day Media Communique No. 3
Read this in full as a PDF here. Map of location here. ### 3rd Media Communiqué, 26th January 2010, 1030Hrs CMEV received reports of multiple explosions in Nallur, Uduppidy, Manipay, Vaddukottai, Chavakachcheri and Tellipallai. CMEV’s mobile teams were dispatched to a number of locations where the attacks had reportedly taken place. CMEV teams verified damages...
Presidential Election 2010: Media Communiqu? No. 20
Released 21 January 2010, download this report in full as a PDF here. ### Western Province Alleged Shooting in Gampaha District According to Western Provincial Councilor Mr. Kithsiri Manchanayake (UNP), at approximately 3.00am this morning, a group of unidentified persons who arrived in 5 or 6 vehicles, attacked the party office as well as home...
Presidential Election 2010: Special Report on murder
16 January 2010: According to North Western Provincial Councilor Mr. Sanath Nishantha Perera (UPFA), at 3.50pm, UNP supporters had shot at UPFA supporters in front of the UNP party office located in front of the Minnas Private Hospital, Madurankuliya, Puttalam District, resulting in the death of UPFA supporter Mr. Saman Kumara of Thonigala, Anamaduwa. According...
CMEV records misappropriation of State resources
CMEV captures on photo just a few of the illegal acts of political parties in the run up to the Presidential Elections, including the misappropriate of State resources. Click here for the photos. More will be added soon. CMEV records misappropriation of State resourcesCMEV records misappropriation of State resources
Comments on ?National Policy on Local Government? as published in the Daily News, 25th September 2009
This brief note responds to several points enumerated in the draft National Policy on Local Government on the proposed use of Information Communication Technology at local government levels. Comments on ?National Policy on Local Government? as published in the Daily News, 25th September 2009Comments on ?National Policy on Local Government? as published in the Daily...
Regarding grossly misleading reference to CPA in Tamilnet news report
Editor, Tamilnet (www.tamilnet.com) 12 October 2009 Dear Sir or Madam: Regarding grossly misleading reference to CPA in Tamilnet news report The news story titled Fonseka’s legal perils published on your website today, available online at http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&artid=30421, includes a reference and link to a press release by the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA). Issued on 28th...
Monitoring election violence in Sri Lanka Southern Provincial Council Election 2009: Interim Report
8th October 2009: CMEV has recorded a cumulative total of 95 incidents since its commenced monitoring. Of the total of 95 incidents, the number of Major incidents have gone up to 26 while 69 incidents have been categorized as Minor. The highest number of Major incidents have been reported from the Galle district – 14...