The Children’s Day celebration

The citizen forum celebrated The Children’s Day organizing some events for the children in the rural development center in Kondachchikda in Musali, Mannar. More than 60 children participated to the ceremony engaging with different events. Children had an opportunity to play games, show their colors singing, dancing, playing dramas.  Children made speeches according to the children’s day. 
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Handing over a petition to the politicians

A petition highlighting the issues of the fisheries sector, issues of women headed families and the basic issues which should be solved immediately in  15 villages was handed over the Assistance District Secretary , Fisheries Minister of Northern Province and the President of Urban Counci in Mannar on 24 September 2014. The representatives of the citizen forum in Musali, committee of  women headed families related to National Fisheries Solidarity Movement, citizen and Northern Province Fisher People Unity participated to the campaign.
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Meeting with the Vice President of Urban Council in Mannar

The citizen forum members had an opportunity to meet and discuss with Mr. G. Jesudasan who is the Vice President of the Urban Council in Mannar on 22 of August 2014 . The meeting was organized by the citizen forum  in the Center of Fisheries Solidarity Movement in Mannar. A sensational discussion could be seen between the Vice President of the Urban Council and the citizen forum. People are facing different kind of issues in the village but the Urban Council has failed address to all problems of the people as the responsible institute of the domain. Therefore, the citizen forum members concrened a lot of issues they face in their villages.

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Focus group discussion in Kondachchikda, Musali

 
 The focus group meeting related to the citizen forum process was organized in Kondachchikuda, Musali local government domain in Mannar district on 23^rd of August 2014. The program coordinator, district coordinator, animators and committee leader participated to the meeting. There was a reasonable participation of the citizens in village level. 
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Awareness program on women contribution for the development

 

 

An awareness program on women contribution for the development was organized to the citizen forum members in the fisher cooperative society center on 29 August 2014 in Trincomalee district.  Madam Vasanthi Jeyaraj who is the Rural Women Development Officer in the local government participated to the program as the resource person. 

 

She shared the knowledge about many areas related to the women’s involvement of the development in the country. There was a discussion about what  the responsibilities of man for developing the woman of the society. There are 52 percentages of the women in the population in the country. Women contributes by 5 percent to the development in different ways such as working overseas, working in garment sector as well as in the tea state sector in the country. 

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Awareness program for the CF on development policies

   

An awareness program was conducted at the center of fisher cooperative society on development polices of the government   on 21^st of July 2014 in Trincomalee. Mr. S. Niroshan who is the lecture of university shared his knowledge with the participants. He explained the theoretical background of allocating finance for the development projects and the way of having decisions about the development policies. The budget of the country is the most important component to allocate finance for every development project. Every allocation should come through the parliament process. That is the legal procedure to get decisions related to development project.

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Citizen forum concerns about the budget preparation

 An awareness program was conducted to the citizen forum in Fisher Cooperative Society Center on 20^th of June 2014 in Trincomalee. The purpose of organizing the awareness program was to enhance the knowledge of citizen forum members over budget preparation, budget circle  and people participation of local government’s budget preparation  because citizen forum concerns to submit their proposals for the annual budget of prodeshiya sabha. It concerned to shape and updates the knowledge about those areas of the citizen forum. 
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Annual Progress Report on ACDN in 2013

 This is the third year of this project that National Fisheries Solidarity Movement     ( NAFSO) is implementing as a partner of Active Citizenship For Development Network( ACDN). It is better to concern about the relationship between the beginning of the third year and end of the second year.  National Fisheries Solidarity Movement obtained a fresh experience from this program because this is a new concept and program for the NAFSO as well as the people. This program shows a new approach to the marginalize community with a new vision.  NAFSO attempted to socialize the budget monitoring concept  as a challenge.  
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Citizen Forum met the President of Pradeshiya Sabha

Representatives of the citizen forum met the president of the Pradeshiya Sabha at his office in Town and Gravest, Trincomalee on 29^th of May 2014. The president of Citizen Forum and some members as well as district coordinator and program coordinator took part to the meeting. The representatives discussed about the progress of implementing the proposals which were handed over the annual budget of the Pradeshiya sabha for 2014. 
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May Day Celebration in 2014

National Fisheries Solidarity Movement commemorated the World May Day with the hundreds  of working peoples consisting of fisherman, farmers, labours and other working people at Katunayake. Many religious leaders, Center For Women, Sri Vimukthi Fisher Women Org, Southern Fisheries Organization, Dabindu Samuuhikaya, Janawaboda Center, Right To Life, Shramabimani, Platform For Freedom, Meepura News Network, Mothers and Daughters of Lanka and several other organizations  gathered under the name of Free Trade Zone Solidarity to succeed the event. It focused on the commemoration of Roshen Chamika who gave the life  to protect the rights of working people straggling against the government’s unjust decision.  
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Citizen Summit at Anuradapura

A citizen summit was held related to  Active Citizenship for Development Network  on 17/18^th of February 2014 in Sevalanka Foundation in Rajanganaya, Anuradapuara. There were four main purposes to organize this event.  Reviewing the whole program being participated the citizen forum members was one the main purposes of the summit. The citizen forum process has past three years on the project. It provided an opportunity the citizen forum members to set together and analyze the program assessing the progress, weakness and challengers.   

Citizen forum members were able to strengthen the relationship among the citizen forums as well as interpersonal relationship also. It planned to aware the citizen forum members about different subjects through the summit. We invited to four external resource persons to share their knowledge with the citizen forum members. In that way,  Mr. Pradeep Jayarathne who is a journalist and political analyzer expressed on  role and responsibility of the active citizens in this   existing political, economic and social context in the country.
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Rendering free service at the hospital in Cilavathurei

The citizen forum organized a grand rendering free service at the hospital in Silavathurei in last Sunday. This program was conducted by the  citizen forum as a request of officials in the hospital at the citizen forum meeting of Musali.
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Citizen Forum meeting
 An occasion of the citizen forum meeting leaded by M. Saaro Ruban, president of the citizen forum in Musali, Mannar
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“Mulikulams’ people in trouble without equipments for fishing industry” A petition was handed over by citizen forum to the Divisional Secretary 
A petition was handed over by the citizen forum to the higher government officials to be presented for the divisional secretary in Mannar on providing fishing equipments for the people who resettled in Mullikulam, said Sunesh Soosai, the organizer of the citizen forum in Musali.
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Police took up the clinic center,  Pregnant mothers are in discomfort

Pregnant mothers are facing many troubles when they come to consult doctors  because the police took up the building which was used as the clinic center in Silavathurei, Mannar. There is no building facility to hold a clinic on existing situation in Silavathurei area. 
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A request of the people in Arippu to develop transport facilities
The manager of Sri Lanka Transport Board in Mannarsalei is concerned on not having a  proper transportation system up to Kondachchikuda village which is in Musali local government domain, Mannar said M. Saaro Ruban Kruss, the president of the citizen forum in Musali. The bus which goes to Arippu from Mannar should tough the village of Kokkupudayan. That is the usual root. 
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 A request to open  the people’s gallery 
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A petition to the president of local government 
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A petition was handed over to the government officials

A petition was handed over by the citizen forum to the higher government officials to be presented for the divisional secretary in Mannar on providing fishing equipments for the people who resettled in Mullikulam, said Sunesh Soosai, the organizer of the citizen forum in Musali.
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Workshop to prepare an action plan for the citizen forum

 Workshop to prepare an action plan for the citizen forum

One day program was organized to prepare an action plan for the citizen forum in the coop city center in Addalachchenei, Ampara on 27th of September 2012. More than 30 participants consist of bath male and female members who represented of five villages such as Addalachchnei, Alamkulam, Palamunei, Olivil and Thiraikeni engaged with the program. Participants can be categorized as young and elder male as well as female but the major part of participation was female.

As first step, preparing the action plan was completed identifying key problems that people are facing on existing development situation in the area. Different areas of development were considered as a group as well as individual analyzing economic, social, political and cultural situation.
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North and East provincials joint convention to get peoples’ proposals for the national budget

 North and East provincials joint convention to get peoples’ proposals for the national budget

National fisheries solidarity movement as a partner of active citizenship for development network (ACDN) organized a provincials convention to get peoples’ proposal for the national budget at Sun Shine Hotel in Trincomalee on 26 of June 2012. A network has been formed consisting of four organizations such as Uva Community Development Center (UCDC) Baddula , Low and Society Trust (LST) Colombo, Center for Society and Religion (CSR) Colombo and National Fisheries Solidarity Movement (NAFSO) Negombo.
 All four organizations are working with different communities in different districts on active citizenship for development network in the country. This right based project is called Participatory Budget Monitoring program. The main goal of this project is to increase engagement of communities in decision-making process about development budget at local level, provincial level and national level, in order to ensure their socio- economic rights.
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LEADERSHIP TRAINING FOR YOUTH

Leadership training was conducted for a youth group related to the citizen forum in Ampara district at the coop city center in Addalachchenei on 28th of August 2012. The citizen forum has a separated youth group which engages with programs related to the CF.
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Project coordinator visited NAFSO

The project coordinator of ACDN visited NAFSO secretariat to discuss about preparing the action plan and the budget for second year of the program at the NAFSO secretariat on 2nd of April 2012. The Accountant and the program coordinator of the NAFSO on the ACDN were advised to prepare quality action plan and correct budget
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The citizen forum was highly welcome by Divisional Secretary

The citizen forum committee members met Mrs. Sasidevi Jalatheepan who is the divisional secretary of town and gravest division on 11 and 30 of October 2011 at the secretariat office in Trincomalie. The convener of citizen forum, three committee members, district animator and two NAFSO secretariat staffs attended to the meeting to discuss on objective of forming citizen forum and their role for regional development
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  CAMPAIGN ON PROVINCIAL ELECTION

The citizen forum meeting was held in the temple of Jayasumanaramaya on 17 of July 2012 in Sumedagama, Trincomalee. Mr. Arumugam who is the president of citizen forum played as the chairperson of the meeting. Male and female citizen forum members representing different villages participated to the meeting.
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People Council was started in Ampara District

People council was started as upper step of the citizen forum process in Agrarian training center in Palamunei on 30 of April 2012. A.L.M. Nazeer, president and M.A. Anzil, vice president of Addalachchenei pradeshiya sabha and citizen forum representatives form Palamunei, Addalachchenei, Oluvil, Thiraikeni, Alamkulam and few people in Deegavapi participated to the people council.
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National Convention on ACDN

 National Stakeholder Consultation on peoples participation in state budget was organized by Active Citizenship for Development Network (ACDN) at Renuka Hotel, Colombo 03 on 22nd of March in 2012. Every network partner on ACDN such as Uva Community Development Center(UCDC), Center for Society and Religion(CSR), National Fisheries Solidarity Movement(NAFSO) and Law and Society Trust (LST) as well as other stakeholders who related to this process participated for the National Convention which was facilitated by Law and Society Trust as one of the ACD network partners.

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 Committee meeting of citizen forum in Trincomalee

The committee meeting of citizen forum was held in the temple of Jayasumanaramaya in Sumedagama Trincomali in 22 of September in 2011. There were 9 committee members representing six villages.
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