Objectives

• Build up a socialized women’s generation essential for prevailing society.
• Empower the women with knowledge, attitudes, technological knowledge and skills contributing towards the economic process.
• Directing women for the product contribution, economic thrift, investments and savings.
• Assessing the skilled women and providing opportunities for present their skills.
• Identify the problems that faced by women and support them to find solutions and conducting counselling programs.
• Developing Liyasewana centers regionally to increase multitasking activities.
• Providing welfare services for the women in central province those who need to find solutions for the mental& legal problems they are facing in their day today life.
• Offering training programs on income generating activities for unemployed women.
• Conduct marketing programs to promote entrepreneur women’s products.
• Social development affairs and Income generating activities for women in estate sector.
• Celebrating special national & international days devoted for women.

Empowering Women Economically

• Conducting vocational training programs for unemployed women and conducting training programs on self-employment such as; needlecraft, beauty culture, curtains(drapery), batik creations and patch-point creation etc.
• Organizing business exhibitions /fairs generating market opportunities and directing trained self-employed women for production.
• Conducting entrepreneur societies and organizing female entrepreneurs.
• Providing loan facilities for women and directing them to apply.
• Motivating female entrepreneurs and conducting assessing programs

Strengthening Women Socially

• Conducting evaluation programs to motivate entrepreneur women.
• Celebration of International Women’s Day, International Day of the girl child and mother’s day.
• Conducting awareness programs for government servants

Developing “Liyasewana Centers” as multitasking

• Developing “Liyasewana Centers” as model training centers for women and conducting projects conducting special programs for the betterment of women reside closer to those centers.

Capacity Development

• Conducting programs for uplifting the capacity level of women’s development officers and instructors.

About the Women’s Development Unit

As the foundation of the society & each family women provide incomparable contribution in keeping peace of the family along with its economic management and operational activities. Therefore empowering women would be a social empowerment. According to the population statistics of the Central Province the population of women is 52.56% (Department of Census & statistics –Year 2012). Hence it’s very important of directing & imitating women towards the economic development field.

According to the development process sources of Sri Lankan, a priority has given to widespread women’s vocational skill development and it’s also shows a necessity of the women’s contribution for the socio economic development process since women have taken the 52% amount out of the total population. Therefore it indicates more attention on directing the women for the contribution of socio economic development. Also there is a time requirement on consideration of necessities of the rural women’s population as it is exceeds more than 72% of population.

Therefore women affairs unit conducts their programs in order to overcome those objectives identified by the ministry of industries & sports.

Vocational Training Programs/Courses conducted by women’s Development Unit in 2017

• Fabric cutting & sewing(needle-craft) -30 days
• Bridal dressing and beauty culture -35 days
• Patch point & patchwork creation-20 days
• Curtain drapery -10 days
• Making Shoes & bags-15 days
• Batik creation -10 days
• Bridal dressmaking and Saree blouse design
• Screen printing- 02 days
• Food technology -05 days
• Making cakes-05 days
• Framing photographs-(10 hours)-02 days