About South Asian Women Leaders Association

Common Oath Of SAWLA

We respect women for their women hood. It Is women who laugh at women mostly,for their shortcomings , character, looks, financial difficulties and even about their husbands or boyfriends .It Is women who turn another woman’s tears into fire by being inquisitive of her virginity, unexpected pregnancy, not having children after marriage or even pushing her for Sathi Pooja or other customs such as IDDAH. And mostly it is women who blame a mother for not bringing up her children well .It is women who criticize women in most of the cases. We the members of SAWLA do not encourage any such act that harass women . Instead we love and respect all women with equal spirit of dignity. We believe if women respect and love women then the whole world would love women equally. Also , we believe men and women are mutually essential for the society to function.

What We Do

South Asian women are facing to the dangerous social issues such as rapes, murder, divorce, separation, poverty and many more crimes. There are lots of young girls and women who are affected terribly as a result of increasing crime in Asian countries.Women are more and more affected by these horrible problems and it’s time to give the women of South Asia a voice, together joining hands to stop crime and abuse against women. They need an organization to join hands with to fight for their rights and to live in peace, without fear and as one voice starting to find solutions for their eternal life.We respect women for their women hood. It Is women who laugh at women mostly , for their shortcomings , character, looks, financial difficulties and even about their husbands or boyfriends.
It Is women who turn another woman’s tears into fire by being inquisitive of her virginity, unexpected pregnancy, not having children after marriage or even pushing her for Sathi Pooja or other customs such as IDDAH. And mostly it is women who blame a mother for not bringing up her children well .It is women who criticize women in most of the cases. We the members of SAWLA do not encourage any such act that harass women . Instead we love and respect all women with equal spirit of dignity. We believe if women respect and love women then the whole world would love women equally. Also , we believe men and women are mutually essential for the society to function .

  • Accountability

    SAWLA regularly evaluates its own work to enhance accountability, inform decision making and contribute to learning on gender equality. The Independent Evaluation Service provides evidence for a more relevant, effective and efficient SAWLA with greater impact on the lives of women and girls it serves.

  • The evaluation function at SAWLA focuses on bellow strategic areas

    Implementing effective corporate evaluation systems Implementing effective decentralized evaluation systems Promoting SAWLA coordination on gender-responsive evaluation Strengthening national evaluation capacities for gender-responsive evaluation.

Director Panel

Dr.Kaushalya Abeywikrama
President
Mr.Radakrishnan Kalailan
Director General
Ms.Champa Upasena
Country Director and Consultant

National Coordinators

Ms.Chandima Subhashini

National Coordinator

Mr.Sanath Samarasena

National Coordinator

Mr.Rohan
Gunathilaka

National Coordinator

Mr.Sathish
Kumar

National Coordinator

Mr.Sampath Gunarathna

National Coordinator

District Coordinators

Ms.Eranga Madhubashini
District Coordinator - Nuwaraeliya District
+94 765 419 466
Ms.H.M.S.Nilani Herath
District Coordinator - Badulla District
+94 711 268 831

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Organizational Structure

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Governance

South Asian Women Leaders Association is a registered Non-Governmental Organization in Sri Lanka in NGO Secretariat office completing all requirement and regulations implemented by Ministry of National Languages and Social Integration. According to law of NGO Secretariat Sri Lanka which established SAWLA , the organization is governed by a multi-tiered intergovernmental governance structure as follows:
The NGO Secretariat Sri Lanka and the Divisional Secretariat in every division where programs implemented, SAWLA shall constitute the multi-tiered intergovernmental governance structure for the normative support functions and shall provide normative policy guidance to the Entity.
The General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and the Executive Board of the Entity shall constitute the multi-tiered intergovernmental governance structure for the operational activities and shall provide operational policy guidance to the Entity.

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Country Director of SAWLA reports directly to the SAWLA Director General and presents Annual Reports on Evaluation to the Executive Board. The SAWLA Evaluation Advisory Committee acts as a forum to further ensure the independence, relevance and quality of its evaluation function and promote their use within SAWLA. A Strategic Evaluation Plan approved by the Director General also guides independent evaluation system. SAWLA carries out corporate and decentralized evaluations. Evaluation System undertakes corporate evaluations with the support of external evaluators. They assess effectiveness, organizational performance and normative and operational coherence. Decentralized evaluations are conducted by external evaluators and managed by programme offices. They are quality-assured through the Global Evaluation Reports Assessment and Analysis System and their results are presented at the annual session of the Executive Board. The SAWLA Evaluation Service works to make SAWLA stronger, while engaging the its own working System and external partners to advocate for gender responsive evaluation.

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