Building Resilience, Inclusive Growth, & Holistic Transformation in Sri Lanka

IFPRI & CGIAR Livelihoods Platform Webinar: Building Resilience, Inclusive Growth, and Holistic Transformation in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka has experienced slow progress in job creation, poverty reduction, and food insecurity, especially in rural areas. Economic challenges are further compounded by climate change risks and vulnerability to global shocks. At the same time, Sri Lanka has immense potential in agriculture and agro-processing, critical needs for infrastructure development, and a large scope for accelerated growth in high-value services – which can all contribute to inclusive economic transformation, greater food systems resilience, and better livelihoods. Following recent elections, there is an elevated demand for pro-poor economic reforms, new investment strategies, and policies that are both financially and environmentally more sustainable. Yet evidence-based policy decision-making is confronted with critical knowledge and data gaps. To address these gaps and establish a baseline for policy-relevant research on diverse issues, IFPRI and IWMI are working with local and international partner organizations to implement a representative, multi-topic household survey. In this webinar recording, we introduced the BRIGHT Sri Lanka survey and discussed how it and other research tools can inform critical policy questions.