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Earlier this month, we wrapped up the activities of our project “Inclusive & Decolonial Approaches to Governance in Addu...
24/09/2026

Earlier this month, we wrapped up the activities of our project “Inclusive & Decolonial Approaches to Governance in Addu City” with the Mahalee Sarukaaraai Madhanee Jamiyyaa forum. It convened the local government, institutional stakeholders, civil society organisations, youth, and community to discuss the findings of the project and engage in constructive dialogue on improving public participation in decision-making.

We’re very thankful to all the presenters, panelists, and attendees for all the amazing conversations. Many thanks to Aishath Rizna, Executive Director of Transparency Maldives for the keynote on avenues for stakeholder collaboration in local decision-making.

This forum was carried out in collaboration with Addu City Council , and with the support of Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI).

High Commission of Canada to Sri Lanka and Maldives

Members of the Addu City Council and WDC were convened to discuss some of the preliminary findings of the “Au(?) Visnuma...
08/09/2026

Members of the Addu City Council and WDC were convened to discuss some of the preliminary findings of the “Au(?) Visnumakah” project. Some of the activities from previous workshops were replicated with the participants, including issue identification exercises and community scorecards.

Participants also developed scorecards for the council and rated their own services from the perspective of the public, comparing their perception to the outputs from the community and institutions in Addu. A critical review of city-wide issues was also made, identifying those within the council’s mandate to find a solution for and the role both the council and WDC can play in facilitating public participation in these processes. Participants also critiqued the projects developed by the community and institutions through the participatory budgeting exercises, assessing the feasibility and potential impact from the realisation of each of these projects.

This project is being carried out with the support of Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI).

High Commission of Canada to Sri Lanka and Maldives

We’re having our second annual CSO-Stakeholder Forum this Thursday, titled “Au(?) Visnumakah: Mahalee Sarukaaraai Madhan...
05/09/2026

We’re having our second annual CSO-Stakeholder Forum this Thursday, titled “Au(?) Visnumakah: Mahalee Sarukaaraai Madhanee Jamiyyaa” and would love for all community members to attend and share your thoughts during the presentations and discussions.

The forum is open to people of all ages. Express your interest in attending using the QR code or link in bio !

See you there !

Alongside the one for the general public, we also had a social accountability workshop for institutions, carried out in ...
02/09/2026

Alongside the one for the general public, we also had a social accountability workshop for institutions, carried out in collaboration with Transparency Maldives Maldives Local Councils' Association Information Commissioner's Office and with the support of Addu City Council .

Participants engaged in community scorecard and participatory budgeting exercises, alongside an RTI session specifically designed to improve institutional capacity in responding to RTI requests. Participants also critiqued the outputs of the previous workshop and explored barriers to proper service delivery by the select institutions.

This project is being carried out with the support of Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI).

High Commission of Canada to Sri Lanka and Maldives

We had our Social Accountability Workshop for the community last week, carried out in collaboration with Transparency Ma...
28/08/2026

We had our Social Accountability Workshop for the community last week, carried out in collaboration with Transparency Maldives Maldives Local Councils' Association Information Commissioner's Office and with the support of Addu City Council .

Participants were introduced to tools like Right to Information (RTI), participatory budgeting, and community scorecards, with exercises carried out to familiarise them with how these tools are used to hold elected officials accountable and how they can help develop the community in ways that most represent public needs. We are working on how these hypothetical exercises can be institutionalised at a local level to involve the community in decision-making and better inform public spending.

This project is being carried out with the support of Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI).

High Commission of Canada to Sri Lanka and Maldives

16/08/2026

Sign up for our social accountability training on the 21st (Friday) in Hithadhoo.

Learn about Right To Information, Participatory budgeting, and more.
With sessions lead by the Information
Commissioner’s Office, Transparency Maldives, and Maldives Local Councils Association.

We’re collaborating with Transparency Maldives Maldives Local Councils' Association and Information Commissioner's Offic...
14/08/2026

We’re collaborating with Transparency Maldives Maldives Local Councils' Association and Information Commissioner's Office to once again carry out a social accountability workshop for people of all ages. Alongside RTIs, this time we’ll specifically be exploring tools such as participatory budgeting and scorecards.

The outputs from this workshop will complement what we have gathered from the previous ones, and will make up part of the recommendations and comments we submit to the council to be reflected in Addu’s five year Development Plan being devised.

Sign up using the QR code or link in bio !

As part of our “Au(?) Visumakah” project, we held a Multi-Stakeholder Sustainability Planning Workshop last Saturday. Pa...
13/08/2026

As part of our “Au(?) Visumakah” project, we held a Multi-Stakeholder Sustainability Planning Workshop last Saturday.

Participants from different demographics and backgrounds engaged in problem identification exercises through a productive inter-generational dialogue. In groups they ran comprehensive analyses of select issues with guidance from our facilitators Inaz and Sara Naseem . These broadly included centralisation efforts, lack of third spaces, and unsustainable development due to ecologically-destructive acts. Participants explored the social, economic, ecological, cultural, and governance-related dimensions of issues, using concepts of intersectionality and sustainability.

CDE Consulting also presented a brief summary of Addu’s Development Plan for the period 2026-2031. The extremely quality inputs collected at the workshop will form part of our recommendations that will be presented to the council at the end of this project.

High Commission of Canada to Sri Lanka and Maldives

Happy International Youth Day, folks !
12/08/2026

Happy International Youth Day, folks !

Everything around us is shaped through underlying systems of power and taken-for-granted assumptions that are produced a...
05/08/2026

Everything around us is shaped through underlying systems of power and taken-for-granted assumptions that are produced and reproduced by the community. This two-day workshop was our attempt to interrogate the omnipresent ideas of coloniality and introduce young people to decolonial-thinking, with an emphasis on the pluriverse, alternate ways of seeing the world, and their role in knowledge production.

Many thanks to Sara Naseem for the facilitation and for all the help in the development and ex*****on of this workshop. There is definitely a lot more to unpack here and we hope to have similar workshops in the future.

This project is being carried out with the support of Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI).

High Commission of Canada to Sri Lanka and Maldives

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