Past Activities
  
 
Research Studies
 
 
1.


SHARE-MIND has created SHARE which is a post-Tsunami knowledge resource dealing with Sri Lankan society and South Asia to build a culture of prevention, preparedness, and response.

 
  2.

Macro and Micro Impact of the 2004 Tsunami on Affected Countries and Peoples A Comparative Review of India, Indonesia, Maldives, Thailand, and Sri Lanka (report available)

 
  3.

Sustainable Urban Transport and Low Cost Management MIND undertook an initial GEF study on "Sustainable Urban Transport and Low Cost Management" as a part of a major project covering three Asian cities, namely Dhaka, Bangalore and Colombo

  
  4.

Collaborating with TERI, India on a study of Renewable Energy Policies and Options for Sri Lanka

 
 
 
Research Programming
  
 
1.


C3D Phase I

MIND is among the three institutions identified by UNITAR for the purpose of capacity building on Climate Change and Sustainable development.
MIND along with other partners ENDA, Senegal and ERC, South Africa is developing training material and organizing capacity building workshops on Sustainable Development and Climate Change adaptation and mitigation programmes.

  
  2.

Evaluation of Dams and Development Project

This exercise was undertaken through a global survey of responses of the members of the Development of Dams Forum (DDF), which included direct interviews as well as telephone interviews. MIND made some far reaching recommendations in regard to the future of DDP, based on which the a decision has been reached by World Bank to extend the project life span by one more year.

  
  3.

Evaluation of project proposals relating to safe drinking water and technology

Chairman MIND evaluated 52 projects relating to safe drinking water. The project was sponsored by the UNDP unit for Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries (TCDC), Third World Academy of Sciences TWAS, of which Chairman MIND is the Chancellor, Third World Network of Scientific Organisations (TWNSO) and World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).

  
  4.

"Power Sector Poverty Linkages" - World Bank Study

This study analysed the impact of electricity sector and reform on consumers.

 
 
5.


Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (Ma) Dissemination Meeting

4 th May 2005 at SLAAS Auditorium

Disseminate the path breaking results of the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment (MA), released in major world capitals including New York, London, Delhi and Beijing. The work was carried out for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, by 1300 leading experts from 95 countries, over a 5 year period, to assess how ecosystem degradation would affect the UN Millenium Development Goals (MDG) agreed in 2000

 
     
 
Teaching & Training
       
 
2002
    

 

 

Findings of the IPCC Third Assessment Report and the relevance to Climate Strategy in Sri Lanka (Report available)

3rd January 2002
HARTI, 114, Wijerama Mawatha, Colombo 7

Sustainable Energy and Transport Policy Options for Sri Lanka
(Report available)

1st March 2002

Hotel Renuka, 328 Galle Road,  Colombo 3

Workshop on IPCC - TAR and Climate Change Research for Sustainable Development (Proceedings published)

 4th & 5th June 2002 Ceylon Continental Hotel, Colombo 1

Expert Consultation on Policy Priorities for Sustainable Development (Report available)

 14th August 2002

Ceylon Continental Hotel, Colombo 1

Expert Consultation on "Policy Priorities for Sustainable Transport (Report available)

14th September 2002 Hotel Renuka, Colombo 3
2003
    

IPCC Expert Consultation on Climate Change and Sustainable evelopment (Proceedings published)

 5th -7th March 2003 Trans Asia Hotel, Colombo 2

Expert meeting on "Disaster Vulnerability, and Sustainable Environmental Management Policies" (Report available)

 14th July 2003 HARTI, Wijerama Mw, Colombo7
2004
   

Workshop on Climate Change and Sustainable Development
(Report available)

 8-9 June 2004 HARTI, Colombo 7
2005
   

Peoples' Consultative Meeting on "Disaster Management and Prevention in Sri Lanka"
(Report available)

6th January 2005 HARTI, Wijerama Mawatha, Colombo 7

International Training Workshop on 'Capacity Building for Climate Change and Sustainable Development'
(Report available)

30th May to 2nd June 2005 Trans Asia Hotel, Colombo
2006
   
2nd International conference on sustainable hazard reduction - rehabilitation, reconstruction and long-term development (report available)
 11-12 January 2006 SLFI
National w/shop on sustainable hazard reduction and disaster management (report available)
13-14 June 2006 SLFI
2007
    
Workshop on Integrating Coastal Community
Resilience into National and Sectoral
Institutions and Policies		 22 February 2007 HARTI

Integrating and implementing
S&T policy and projects
within thenational sustainable
development strategy

 30 August 2007 SLFI
 
     
   
 
Academic
  

 


Scholarships

To increase awareness among young scholars on the issues of SD, MIND grants annual scholarships to undergraduates in
Sri Lankan universities .

 
 

1st Batch of Scholars - Sept 2001- Aug 2002
  
 
     
U/Colombo - Faculty of Arts
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Ms WMS Wijekoon
 
-
Ms K Don V Priyadarshani
 
-
Ms MRN Perera
 
-
Mr WWSP Fernando

 

  
 
2nd batch of scholars - September 2002-Aug 2003
 
 
   
U/Colombo 
-
Ms Budhika P Herath
U/Moratuwa
-
Mr B A D Sujeewa Wimalasena
Faculty of Arts
-
Ms Chamila T Danthanarayana
 
-
Mr H A C Perera
-
Ms K M Perera
 
-
Mr P M M Achintha
   
   
3rd batch of scholars - September 2003-Aug 2004
   
U/Colombo
-
Ms SBN Ransirini Bandusena
U/Moratuwa
-
Mr DM Prasanna B Dasanayake
Faculty of Arts
-
Ms EAT Sandamali Edirisinghe
 
-
Mr Seevaratnam Jagandan
-
Ms DS Pramuditha Madurawala
 
-
Ms MKGamindi Peiris
   
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Ms TPG Nilanthi Alwis
   
-
Mr SKB Herath
   
   
   
4th batch of scholars - September 2004-Aug 2005
   
U/Colombo
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Ms Dilani Hirimuthugodage
Faculty of Science
-
Mr L Chanaka de Silva
Faculty of Arts
 
-
Ms Amaratunga V Thilanka Dilruwani
 
-
Mr Akila D Kumarasiri
 
-
Mr Romesh T Sooriyaarachchi
 
-
Mr K Sharlom M Perera
 
-
Mr. Dilan C Paranagama
 
-
Ms Rasika V. Jayatillake
   
5th batch of scholars - September 2005-Aug 2006
   
U/Colombo
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Ms T Nagasinghe
Faculty of Science
-
Ms C D Jayasinghe
Faculty of Arts
-

Ms I G C Priyadarshani

 
-
Ms L D L Priyangika
-

Mr H D B J Dasanayake

   
           
U/Moratuwa
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Mr M W M N K K Senanayaka
U/Sri Jayawardenapura
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Ms C D Geeganage
 
-
 Mr S A D C Wimalachandra  
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Mr L A M C Amarasekera
   
6th Batch of Scholars - September 2006-Aug 2007

University of Colombo
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Mr HNCP Kumara

Faculty of Science

-
Ms KMCP Seneviratne

Faculty of Arts
-
Ms KWD Gunarathne
 
-
Mr WDS Rubunusiri
       
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Ms RKMPP Handakumbura
       
-
Ms HAA Priyadarshani
University of Moratuwa
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Mr DSRTN Gunawardana
      
 
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Mr WJMPGS Silva
     
 
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Mr V Prahalathan
     
           

University of SJP

-
Mr SA Vanniarachchy
     
 
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Ms GDS Priyadarshika
     
 
       
7th batch of scholars - September 2007-Aug 2008

University of Colombo
-
Ms D. Dulanii Liyanahetti

Faculty of Science

-
Ms WVT De Silva

Faculty of Arts
-
Ms PH Samarasinghe
  
-
Ms IR Wedage
 
-
 Ms HN Ranatunga  
-
 Ms SVC De Silva
 
-
 Ms DT Dhanawalavithana  
-
 Ms MR Ambalangodage
 
-
 Ms GAS Perera  
 
       
 
University of Moratuwa
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Mr ULAJD Perera
      
 
-
Mr PKS Jayathurathnage
      
 
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Mr NNS Yapage
      
           

University of SJP

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Ms DN Jayawardena
      
 
       
 

     Fellowships

          

     
MIND awards research fellowships to post-graduate students. Several awards have been made already to Masters and PhD candidates from leading universities around the world.
  
 
Name
University
Nationality
Study area
Period
 
 
Ms Risa Morimoto

University of Cambridge,

St Edmund's College, UK
Japanese

PhD in Environmental Management

PhD research :SED: assessing the econmic, social and environmental implications of hydropower projects in Sri Lanka

July-Sept 2000
 
 
Mr Yaw Afrane-Okese

University of Cape Town, Energy & Development Research Centre, South Africa

Ghana
Ph.D thesis proposal: Developing Sustainable strategies for energy use in urban households in Southern Africa: case study of Botswana

July 10 - September 26, 2001
 
 
Mr Niggol Seo

Yale's Environment School
New Haven, USA

    
Aug 16 - Sept 16 th 2002
 
 
Mr Menzie McEachern

Clark University
Worcester, MA, USA

USA/Canadian
Doctoral student in Geography - Renewable energy development and policy, innovation diffusion, quantitative methods, systems and agent-based modeling, activity theory, social capital and organisational
Oct 23, 2003
 
 
Ms Akiko Yamane

Monash University
Australia

Japanese
Ph.D. in environmental studies

Nov'03-Feb'04
 
 
Robin White
The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy
Tufts University

Canadian
MA thesis
14 May-29 Aug'04
 
 
Harald Winkler
University of Cape Town
South African
Consolidation of PhD thesis: Sustainable Energy Development Paths for the South African Power Sector: An Analysis of the Economic Viability of Future Scenarios

26 June-5 Aug'05
 
  Golam Mathbor
Monmouth University
USA
Building social capital for sustainable disaster relief an management

25 May - 24 June'06
 
 


 
 
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Books on energy, economics, environment, sustainable development, telecommunications, transport, and water donated to university libraries in Colombo, Kelaniya, Moratuwa, Peradeniya, Ruhuna, and Sri Jayawardenepura.