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DAP Sri Lanka
The Australian High Commission accepts proposals for funding of activities under the DAP for amounts of up to 1,000,000 rupees. DAP is available to individuals, community groups and NGOs engaged in development activities on a not-for-profit basis.
Typically DAP Sri Lanka provides grants for :
- Small-scale income-generation projects
- Community Health
- Education
- Small scale infrastructure
- Rural development
- Human rights training/education
Special attention will be given to the needs of women, children, disabled persons, elderly persons and other vulnerable groups.
DAP activities should be of high developmental impact. Applications should clearly detail the expected development impact, for example in terms of promoting community development, the role of women, education and/or health.
It is essential that DAP projects be oriented towards self-help and be sustainable.
Submissions should demonstrate a commitment on the part of the local authorities and/or people who will be the beneficiaries to implement the activities and sustain them.
Appropriate institutional support arrangements must be described, for example the level of recurrent costs generated and evidence of capacity to sustain these costs in the longer term.
Eligible activities would normally be implemented over a relatively short period of time of not more than 1 year.
Activities that will not be funded include :
- Conferences in Sri Lanka or overseas study tours
- academic training in Australia
- items of a recurrent nature (staff salaries, office rentals and utility costs)
- spare parts, supplies, maintenance and repairs
- payment of consultants and advisers, where they constitute a major cost component.
Download the DAP Sri Lanka Proposal Form (pdf)
DAP Proposals originating in the Western, Central and Southern Provinces should be addressed to
Surovi Abeyratne Corea
Australian High Commission
21, Gregory's Road
Colombo 7
Tel: (011) 2 463242
Fax: (011) 2 686 939
Email: surovi.abeyratne@dfat.gov.au
DAP Proposals originating from Northern and Eastern Provinces should be addressed to
Ms Nazreen Marikkar
Australian High Commission
21, Gregory's Road
Colombo 7
Tel: (011) 2 463 243
Fax: (011) 2 686 939
Email: nazreen.marikkar@dfat.gov.au
High Commissioner Kathy Klugman handed over funds to the National Cancer Institute on 17.06.2008. DAP funded the transport of two containers of hospital equipment from Australia for a new ward at the National Cancer Hospital.