Sri Lanka: North East Community Restoration and Development Project

Abstract

The NECORD project helped restore basic services, shelter, and livelihoods for 500,000 beneficiaries and benefited a further 500,000 people indirectly, which helped stabilize the economies of the Northern and Eastern provinces. It also enabled people displaced by the hostilities to return home to more productive and better quality lives by improving their standards of living and economic opportunity. The constructed and restored physical facilities and the various community development and livelihood programs are sustainable. Commerce has returned to the communities and larger towns, even in areas that were in a conflict situation.