Our achievements

• Completion of Off-grid City study, September 2024.
• Completion of AidAccount I study, August 2024.
• Completion of Migration Governance study, March 2024.
• Systems of Housing Provision for the Marginalized in Sri Lanka in May 2023.
• A Resource Guide for Making Infrastructure Work for the Most Marginalised in April 2023.
• Bilateral Labour Agreements Re-Examined from a Gender Perspective: An Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Framework in April 2023.
• Bilateral Labour Agreements Between Sri Lanka and Other Jurisdictions in April 2023.
• Survey on Returnee Migrant Workers in Sri Lanka: A Gendered Analysis of Living and Working Conditions and Institutional Support Mechanisms in March 2023.
• Geography shaping life of Migrants in October 2022.
• The CMRD releases Inclusive Urban Infrastructure: Sri Lanka Community Profiles in October 2022.
• Field visit to Sarnia Estate in September 2022.
• The CMRD releases its third blog ‘Fuel Crisis: A double burden for low-income residents in Colombo, Sri Lanka’ in July 2022.
• Systems of Provision (SoP) workshop with SEVANATHA and IDS in June 2022.
• The CMRD releases its second blog ‘Disruption to livelihoods: Living with major power outages in Sri Lanka’ in April 2022.
• Webinar on bilateral labor agreements for migration in February 2022.
• Creative methods workshop with Carleton University in January 2022.
• ‘Migrants on the Margins’ final report published in 2022.
• 24 Hour urban risk and climate change video documentary in November 2021.
• ‘24 Hour Urban Risk’ project completed in 2021.
• Off-grid inception workshop with University of Sussex and SEVANATHA in July 2021.
• 24 Hour urban risk and climate change final workshop with University of Nottingham in July 2021.
• 24 Hour urban risk launch workshop with Climate Change and Urban Violence Network (CCUVN) in June 2021.
• Launch of ‘Migration Governance’ in 2021.
• Launch of ‘Off-grid City’ project in 2020.
• Launch of ‘Aid Account’ project in 2020.
• University of Sussex launches research on infrastructure in Sri Lanka in 2020.
• The CMRD released the Working Paper ‘Post-war resettlement, aid and recovery: An economic analysis in Sri Lanka’ in November 2020.
• The CMRD released the Working Paper ‘Influence of diasporas on post-war social mobility: The case of Sri Lanka’ in November 2020.
• The CMRD releases its first blog ‘Mapping memory and migration: video documentary and spatial narratives’ in January 2020.
• The CMRD launches its Working Paper Series with the paper ‘Finding ‘Reasons to Stay’ Amidst Issues of Well-being: A Case Study of Two Underserved Communities in Colombo’ in October 2019.
• Migrants on the Margins resources wins an award on curriculum impact in 2019.
• The CMRD conducted a projects findings dissemination workshop with the International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES) and the University of Sussex on 16th October 2018.
• ‘The Unknown City: the (In)Visibility of Urban Displacement project’ completed on October 2018.
• ‘Supporting the Social mobility of Trapped Populations in Very Poor Urban Areas’ project completed on October 2018.
• Metro Colombo Urban Development Project - Survey On Households Flood Losses completed on June 2015.
• Climate Change and Disaster Consultations contribution completed on June 2015.
• Sri Lanka Case Study on Planned Relocations in the Context of Climate Change completed on June 2015.
• ‘Impact of Displacement on Dowries in Sri Lanka’ study completed on February 2015.