ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s conflict-affected communities within the Northern and Jap Provinces have reported elevated disposable earnings, however land disputes stay a serious problem, in response to a UN report.
“A family monitoring survey carried out in February 2025 revealed that 80% of focused people reported elevated disposable earnings, leading to reasonable enhancements in residing requirements,” the UN Sri Lanka SDG Fund Outcomes Report 2024 acknowledged.
“Moreover, 75% of resettled households expressed greater confidence within the resettlement course of, largely on account of enhanced entry to livelihood providers.”
The report, which reviewed the UN fund’s progress within the island nation over the yr, famous that “peacebuilding investments made via the Fund performed a pivotal position in supporting the reintegration and restoration of conflict-affected communities, notably within the Northern and Jap Provinces”.
In 2024, the fund supported the resettlement and reintegration of conflict-affected communities, enhancing entry to livelihoods, shelter, public providers, and psychosocial assist, at a value of 4.6 million {dollars}.
A overview of assist supplied by the UK, carried out in 2024, to resettlement associated programming in Sri Lanka has famous a optimistic and “vital distinction within the lives of hundreds of resettled refugees and internally displaced individuals within the north and east of Sri Lanka,” in response to the SDG report.
Nonetheless, the report famous that “Land disputes centred on entry, management, and distribution stay a serious problem to peacebuilding within the Northern and Jap Provinces.
“Submit-conflict contestations ceaselessly contain the state, navy, and companies just like the Departments of Archaeology, Wildlife, Forest, and the Mahaweli Authority.”
There have been 50 unresolved state-citizen land disputes recognized within the Jap Province between 2020 and 2024, the report mentioned.
Many households nonetheless stay displaced, economically and socially weak within the aftermath of the 30-year civil struggle between the Sri Lanka authorities and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which led to Might 2009. (Colombo/Jun09/2025)
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