Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) are meant to anticipate and minimise harm to communities and nature, but CSF’s new report finds that the quality of social impact reporting in EIAs is low, making EIAs unreliable for decision-makers and investors to scrutinise and use.

This report explores care burdens faced by working mothers in low income communities in Colombo, seeking to understand how they balance work and child care responsibilities. It also examines how social protection can be better suited to meet the different dynamics and needs that these women face within their households, places of work and beyond.

A new Policy Note by CSF argues that the Sri Lankan government’s new plans to encourage AI data centres must be carefully considered alongside constraints to water, electricity and land, given the high resource intensity typically seen with data centres around the world.

Social protection is a right and should not be viewed as charity. The government must commit to better investing in the economic, social and cultural rights of citizens through stronger social protection, if not it will be difficult to achieve a just and equitable recovery from not just the polycrisis, but also the impact of Cyclone Ditwah.