National Integration Division

Engaged in activities pertaining to National Integration through the promotion of ethnic harmony, mutual trust and peace. Emphasis on implementing provisions regarding the Official Languages in the Constitution.

Provides guidance for policy formulation and implements projects that pertain to National Integration, particularly the development of bi-lingual and tri-lingual capability in the administration, as well as society in general.

Effective Implementation of the Official Languages Policy

Language Skills Development Projects

• Tamil Language teaching for Staff of the Ministry of Constitutional Affairs and National Integration

• Quick Impact Trilingual Training for Front Line Staff of the Public Sector - a Pilot Project. (Pix of activities?)

The "Quick Impact" Pilot Project for Front Line Staff - receptionist and telephone operators - was conducted in the Uva Province, with has highest proportionate mix of Sinhala and Tamil speaking people, and 11 bilingual administrative divisions. It comprised a three-day residential training exercise reception and telephone operator skills & etiquette, through the services of expertise in Front Office Training, audio-visual learning and group exercises. The trainees selected by the 26 Divisional Secretaries and two District Secretaries of the Badulla and  Moneragala Districts, gained in initial understanding of the importance of bi-lingual competence in transacting day-to-day functions with the public.

Based on the experience of this project, it is intended to have several more such training workshops in other districts. There have already been several requests for such training from personnel in several districts.

Equal Access To Justice Project

‘Equal Access to Justice’ is a nationally executed project of which the executing Agency is the Ministry and funded by the United Nations Development Programe. The objective of the project is legal empowerment of and increased access to justice by the disadvantaged groups of the society through the application of a human rights based approach. The expected outcomes are to increase in number and diversity of persons receiving effective legal services and receiving necessary information on their rights and duties, decrease in barriers to accessing the justice system, increase in number and diversity of persons receiving community level alternative dispute resolution services and human rights better promoted and effectively protected.