About Us
 Institute
of Social Development (ISD) is a non-governmental organization
based in Kandy Sri Lanka, established in ordered to empower
the marginalized and discriminated Plantation community. ISD
was founded in 1991 by a group of activists who initiated
a dialogue on measuring the impact of development activities
implemented by various sectors including the government and
NGOs in the previous decade. The findings indicated that there
has been no major quantitative change in the lives of the
plantation community. The group concluded that unless the
marginalized communities are not empowered to demand their
own development and rights, development activities imposed
from the outside will not be sustainable. Thus the ISD was
formed to cater to this requirement. For the last two decades,
ISD executed various programmes on awareness rising and capacity
building in ordered to empower the marginalized plantation
community. At the present ISD is involved in sensitizing and
advocating the Plantation community in varied aspects such
as Human Rights, Labor Rights, Housing and Health Rights and
empowerment of Women.
In the year 2008, we performed two evaluations for our past
four year programmes and to evaluate past activities. As a
result, we have changed our vision and mission as:
Vision:
Empowered plantation community mainstreamed with dignity and
equal rights.
Mission:
Strengthen action of plantation community towards social change
based on values of equity, justice, freedom, peace and solidarity
Goal:
To empower the marginalized plantation community to demand
and defend fundamental human, labour, gender and other rights.
The organization consists of General Council and a Board
of Directors. The General council consists of Founder members,
Professionals, Expertise and Worker Representatives. The General
Council possesses the authority to elect the Board of Directors.
The Board of Directors consists of 7 members including the
Executive Director of the institution.
Following are the names of the current Board of Directors:
- Dr. Ramani Hettiarachchi (Senior lecturer, Dept. of Political
Science, University of Peradeniya)
- Mr. P Muthulingam (Director, Institute of Social Development)
- Ms. Guary Palaniappan (Researcher)
- Prof. R. Sivakanesan (Head of the Dept. of Bio-chemistry,
Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya)
- Prof. S. Seneviratne (Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Archeology,
University of Peradeniya)
- Mr. S. Muralitharan (Advisor, GTZ)
- Ms. Pulsara Liyanage (Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Western
Classics, University of Colombo)
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