Government Action Plan Tracker

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Welcome to the GAP Tracker, your window into the government’s progress toward stronger governance and accountability. This platform is designed to monitor the Sri Lankan Government’s Action plan of critical reforms called Priority Recommendations outlined in the 2023 IMF-led Governance Diagnostic Report. The tracker will enable and empower citizens and other stakeholders to oversee the government’s implementation of the action plan.

The Government Action Plan, published in February 2024, was developed as a Structural Benchmark (SB) under the second review agreement of Sri Lanka’s Extended Fund Facility (EFF) with the IMF. It aims to address systemic corruption vulnerabilities in areas of public financial management, tax policies, public procurement, and financial oversight. While implementation of the action plan is the responsibility of the government, this tracker seeks to fill a critical gap by providing an oversight mechanism for its effective implementation. Following the change in administration in 2024, the new government has published an updated version of the Action Plan, which is now the version being tracked through this platform. This plan has several new commitments as well as new timelines for completion.

Through this tracker, created by Transparency International Sri Lanka, you can follow recent updates, explore detailed progress on priority reforms, and see how effectively and meaningfully the government is closing governance gaps and corruption vulnerabilities that impact economic stability and social equity.

We go beyond box ticking —this platform flags delays, identifies policy concerns, assess public access to information regarding commitments, and whether participatory and open governance standards were met, to ensure reforms are effectively implemented and deliver meaningful and sustainable change.

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1. Enact Asset Recovery Law in Line with the UNCAC

Reform Commitment 01

Enact a Comprehensive Asset Recovery Law to harmonize it with the United May, 2025 Nations Convention Against Corruption.

Progress

Key Milestones

1. Submission for Cabinet approval and gazetting by Feb, 2025

Implemented : [Link]

Comment: The legal framework and the Bill were drafted without public and adequate civil society consultation, reflecting the absence and lack of will to engage the public and civil society organizations in the policy making and legislative processes. Note: TISL provided feedback on the Report of the Committee, following persistent advocacy and attempts to engage with the Ministry of Justice which materialised due to the assistance received from the UNDP.

2. Enact the Law by May, 2025

Comment: The Act was certified by the Hon. Speaker on 30 April 2025 and enacted 02 May 2025:

Implemented : [Link]

Responsible Institution

Ministry of Justice

Target date

May, 2025

Process

2. Amend Companies Act to Introduce Beneficial Ownership Registry

Reform Commitment 02

Finalize and implement regulations to support the provision of beneficial ownership information as required by the Companies Act and establish a public beneficial ownership registry.

Progress

Key Milestones

1. Cabinet Approval for the amendment to the Company Act by March, 2025

Implemented [Link]

Comments:
1. The previous administration Gazetted a Bill on August 6, 2024, to introduce the registry and law by way of an amendment to the Companies Act No. 07 of 2007.
2. TISL challenged the Bill on key issues that included exemptions for offshore companies, limited public access, and weakened oversight. The Attorney General agreed to fix several concerns, including ending offshore exemptions. However, elections halted the process, and a new Bill must be re-gazetted by the incoming government.
3. The amendment and provisions for the Beneficial Ownership register were drafted by the previous administration behind closed doors without public or civil society consultation and with no transparency regarding its progress or content, despite TISL’s active efforts to obtain a draft of the law. This process is yet to change.

2. Submit the amendment to the Company Act to the Parliament by May, 2025

Implemented.[Link] Law enacted with essential improvement proposed by TISL: [Link]

3. Issue necessary Regulations by June, 2025

Implemented with delay.

There are regulations issued in March 2026 (Companies (Beneficial Ownership) Regulations, No. 01 of 2026) in only Sinhala on the Department of Registrar of Companies website. The form is not trilingual (https://drc.gov.lk/en/?p=4596)

4. Development of eRoC online system August 2025

Implemented

The eRoC system is operational online (https://eroc.drc.gov.lk/home/search). The eRoC milestone however did not exist in the initial Government Action Plan and was inserted in a later progress report.

6. Maintenance of beneficial ownership information and registry.

Not Implemented – There is no public reporting on implementation

5. Conducting awareness programs for the stakeholders, company secretaries, directors, and shareholders.

Not Implemented

Responsible Institution

Ministry of Industries Department of Registrar of Companies

Target date

Dec, 2025

Process

3. Enact Public Procurement Law in Line with International Best Practices

Reform Commitment 03

Enact a Public Procurement Law that reflects international best practices.

Progress

Key Milestones

1. Draft the Public Procurement Bill and obtain necessary legal clearances by April, 2025

Not Implemented

2. Submit the Public Procurement Bill to the Cabinet for gazetting by May, 2025

Not implemented.

3. Submit to the Parliament

Not implemented.

4. Enact the Law by June, 2025

Not implemented.

TISL has been notified by the National Procurement Commission that the draft of the law is currently in the possession of the Commission. Implementing Authority’s response: [Link]

Responsible Institution

National Procurement Commission

Target date

June, 2025

Process

4. Publish Report on Competitive Tendered Procurement in Low-Competition Agencies

Reform Commitment 04

Publish a report on a designated website on the progress in increasing the proportion of competitive tendered procurement contracts of the 10 agencies determined to have the lowest level of competitive tenders in 2022.

Progress

Key Milestones

1. Gather baseline data on procurement where competition is relatively less, number of failed procurements are high and also there are instances of negotiated award of contracts in place of re- tendering by June, 2025.

Implemented. [Link]

2. Gather above data for the 2nd half of year 2025 and review data gathered during first 05 months of the 2025 against second 5 months of 2025 to identify, i. Improvement in procurement competition. ii. Reduction in failed procurements. iii. Reduction in negotiated award contracts without re-tendering.

Not Implemented.

Comment: TISL has been notified by the Department of Public Finance that the department has identified ten Government Agencies that may have shown the lowest levels of competition based on their past procurement performance. The department has requested information from these 10 agencies on failed, re-tendered, negotiated, and cancelled procurements from 2022 onwards. Implementing Authority’s response: [Link]

Responsible Institution

Department of Public Finance

Target date

Dec, 2025

Process

5. Semi-Annual Publication of Key Public Procurement and Tax Exemption Data

Reform Commitment 05

Publish on a semi annual basis on a designated website (i) all public procurement contracts above Rs. 1 billion, along with comprehensive information in a searchable format on contract award winners; (ii) a list of all firms receiving tax exemptions through the Board of Investment, the SDP and the Port City Act, and an estimation of the value of these tax exemptions; and (iii) a list of firms receiving tax exemptions on luxury vehicle import.

Progress

Key Milestones

i) Published. [Link]

ii) Published. [Link]

iii) Published. [Link]

Update periodically.

Partially implemented

Comment: TISL observed that the Promise.lk website does not contain details of all public procurement contracts above LKR 1 billion, for example the contract awarded to VFS Global for handling the Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) system for the issuance of visas for tourists visiting Sri Lanka, is an example of procurement details that are not published. There may be many other contracts that are within the threshold that are going unreported. These issues must be addressed for full implementation of this commitment.

Responsible Institution

Department of Public Finance, Department of Fiscal Policy

Target date

Jun, 2025

Process

6. Review SOE Reform Policy for Improved Transparency & Accountability

Reform Commitment 06

Review SOE Reform Policy with a view to enhance transparency and accountability of SOE management and strategic principles to meet its key objectives.

Progress

Key Milestones

1. Appoint a Committee to develop a criteria to list the SOEs under a Holding Company and to review the existing SOE Policy and provide recommendations by end March, 2025.

Partially implemented. A Committee to oversee SOE reform was appointed. [Link]

Comment: No recommendations as outlined in this step of this commitment has been made public.

2. Submit the review report and the criteria to the Cabinet by May, 2025.

Implemented, with delay: [Link]

3. Draft SOE bill by July, 2025. Not Implemented

Comment: No recommendations as outlined in this step of this commitment has been made public.

4. Stake holder consultation (IMF/WB) Not Implemented

Comment: This milestone did not exist on the original Government Action Plan and was inserted in a later progress report. There is no publicly available information to verify completion.

5. Bill passed by the Parliament by 01st week of December, 2025 Not Implemented

Comment: The progress report for this milestone indicates a later date than the original Government Action Plan

6. Form a Holding Company by January, 2026. Not Implemented

Comment: The progress report for this milestone indicates a later date than the original Government Action Plan

7. Identify the entities to be absorbed under the Holding Company by January, 2026. Not Implemented

Comment: The progress report for this milestone indicates a later date than the original Government Action Plan

Responsible Institution

Presidential Secretariat, Department of Public Enterprises, Department of Legal Affairs

Target date

Dec, 2025

Process

7. Suspend Strategic Development Projects Act until Transparent Tax Expenditure Criteria Established

Reform Commitment 07

Suspend application of the Strategy Development Projects Act until promulgation of a transparent, rules-based eligibility criteria to increase the accountability and effectiveness of granted tax expenditures and to limit duration for which incentives are granted.

Progress

Key Milestones

1. Finalize the proposals for a comprehensive qualitative and quantitative eligibility criteria for SDP projects by March 2025.

Not implemented.

Comment: No progress on this or information on the process of establishing has been made available. The proposals considered have also no been made available.

2. Amend SDP Act and obtain necessary clearances by end May, 2025.

Implemented with delay: https://documents.gov.lk/view/acts/2025/12/26-2025_E.pdf

Responsible Institution

Department of
Fiscal Policy

Target date

Aug, 2025

Process

8. Cabinet Approval for New National Tariff Policy to Ensure Revenue & Transparency

Reform Commitment 08

Obtain cabinet approval for new National Tariff Policy to ensure revenue optimization, transparency, and accountability including clear rules on eliminating or restricting ministerial authority to introduce tax changes without Parliamentary approval.

Progress

Key Milestones

1. Finalize TOR for the Committee on the National Tariff Policy by March, 2025.

Implemented. [Link]

2. Appoint the Committee by March, 2025.

Implemented. [Link]

3. Draft New Tariff Policy in line to the Government Policy by August, 2025.

4. Obtain Cabinet approval by September, 2025.

Implemented. The Policy is available at [Link]

Responsible Institution

Department of
Fiscal Policy

Target date

Sep, 2025

Process

9. Establish Digital Land Information Registry with Public Access

Reform Commitment 09

Establish an online digital land information system and publish on a designated
website.

Progress

Key Milestones

1. Establish an online digital land information for 2.4 Mn land parcels system by May, 2025. Not Implemented

Partially implemented

Comment: A pilot digital land information system has been created but is not completely accessible to the public and does not contain 2.5 million land parcels.

2. Publish on a designated website May 2025. Not Implemented

Partially implemented

Comment: Whilst the survey department website (www.survey.gov.lk) does have sections available for a land information system it is unclear whether the 2.5 million land parcels data is available therein

3. Rolling-out Plan to include all lands information in the system through integration, digitization and pilots, by Dec, 2025.

Not implemented.

Responsible Institution

Ministry of Lands, Surveyor’s General Department

Target date

Dec, 2025

Process

10. Implement Governance Reforms in the Justice Sector for Enhanced Oversight

Reform Commitment 10

Establish and implement a plan to modify governance arrangements in the Justice sector to strengthen oversight, monitoring, and proper sector development.

Progress

Key Milestones

Develop an implementation plan with interim milestones for the following JSC’s five institutional objectives
i) Increase the number of courts – Implementing: [Link]
ii) Introduce case management across all courts – Partially implemented.

Comment: Case management has been introduced in the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka but this is yet to be introduced for the remaining courts in the country

iii) Advance digitalization in the justice sector -Partially implemented.

Comment: Digitalization exists within the Supreme Court (https://supremecourt.lk/case_management/e_file/login) and steps are being taken for other courts, therefore it is still in progress: https://www.dailymirror.lk/print/breaking-news/Courts-go-paperless-as-e-filing-launched/108-351133

iv) Restructure the JSC Secretariat – Not implemented. –

Comment: Whilst the progress report states that the recruitment process has begun for restructuring, no publicly available information exists to verify this

v) Establish a mechanism to regularize the Quazi courts. – Not implemented.

Responsible Institution

Judicial Service
Commission

Target date

Dec, 2025

Process

11. Adjust National Audit Act Regulations to Enforce Surcharges on Non-Compliant Officials

Reform Commitment 11

Make adjustments to regulations implementing the National Audit Act to facilitate the effective levying of fines on officials, including Chief Accounting officers, who fail to fulfill their responsibilities on overseeing and managing the public assets by June 2025.

Progress

Key Milestones

1. Draft an amendment by the Legal Draftsman’s Department by March, 2025.

Implemented.

2. Obtain necessary legal clearances by March, 2025.

Implemented.

3. Obtain Cabinet approval for Gazetting the amendment by April 2025.

Implemented.

4. Bill passed by June, 2025

Implemented. [Link]

In July 2025 TISL filed a public interest petition in the Supreme Court challenging the National Audit (Amendment) Bill to amend the National Audit Act No. 19 of 2018. The Bill proposed the removal of ‘negligenece’ based surcharge. This lowers the standard of duty of care for public officials, shielding them from being held liable for losses caused. The Petition flaged concerns over the absence of a mechanism to ensure that the decisions taken by the Surcharge Review Committee are open, fair, and accountable: [Link]

Responsible Institution

Ministry of Justice, National Audit Office

Target date

June, 2025

Process

12. Submit Policy Paper on New Management for Employee Provident Fund

Reform Commitment 12

Following a broad consultative process, submit a Cabinet policy paper on options for establishing new management arrangements for the Employee Provident Fund that terminates direct CBSL management.

Progress

Key Milestones

1. Appoint a Committee to review the existing nature and management of EPF and to provide recommendations on way-forward mechanism to efficiently manage EPF by April, 2025.

Implemented with delay.

Comment: A Committee was appointed in June 2026 as per the Cabinet (https://www.cabinetoffice.gov.lk/cab/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16&Itemid=49&lang=en&dID=13999)

2. Comprehensive review by July, 2025.

Not implemented

3. Submit the Comprehensive study with policy recommendations to the Cabinet by August, 2025.

Not implemented

Comment: There are reports that the Cabinet has approved a proposal by the President to establish a new management system for the EPF, however not in line with the milestones as per the Government Action Plan: https://www.newswire.lk/2025/02/11/cabinet-approves-new-epf-management-system/. As per the GAP the proposal was meant to follow a committee’s review of the existing framework and and comprehensive study on the same, however there is not information made available that this was the process that was followed.

Responsible Institution

Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Labour

Target date

Dec, 2025

Process

13. Cabinet Approval for Digital Framework for Public Procurement via e-GP System

Reform Commitment 13

Obtain Cabinet approval to enable digital framework for public procurement of
goods and works through e-GP system.

Progress

Key Milestones

1. Establishment of digital platform to carryout Government Procurement of Goods by March, 2025. – Implemented. [Link]

2. Establishment of Digital platform to carryout Government Procurement of works by June, 2025. Implemented. [Link]

3. Pilot running of e-GP system for the procurement of Goods and Works by Sep, 2025. Implemented. [Link]

4. Establishment of Digital platform to carryout Government Procurement other than Goods and Works by December, 2025. Implemented. [Link]

5. Rollout of e-GP system for Procurement of Goods and works for 10% of Government Entities by December, 2025. Not Implemented

Responsible Institution

Department of
Public Finance.

Target date

Dec, 2025

Process

14. Cabinet Approval & Enact Public Asset Management Law for Digital Framework

Reform Commitment 14

Obtain Cabinet Approval and enact Public Asset Management Law enabling to create digital framework for maintaining of non-financial assets of public sector institutions to promote transparency and accountability.

Progress

Key Milestones

1. Cabinet Approval for Public Asset Management Bill by March, 2025.

Not implemented.

2. Submit to Parliament by April, 2025

Not implemented.

Comment: This milestone did not exist in the original Government Action Plan and was inserted in a progress report.

3. Enact the Public Asset Management Law by July, 2025.

Not implemented.

Responsible Institution

Comptroller General’s
Department, Department of Legal Affairs

Target date

July, 2025

Process

15. Assess Politician Entitlements & Adopt Annual Disclosure Regulations

Reform Commitment 15

Conduct a comprehensive assessment of entitlements provided to current and former politicians, including the legal framework governing them, and to adopt regulations requiring annual disclose of those benefits to the public which should be subject to regular oversight by Parliament.

Progress

Key Milestones

1. Ensure implementing existing legal provisions of President’s Entitlement Act No 04 of 1986 by Jan, 2025.

Implemented. – The Presidents’ Entitlements (Repeal) Bill was passed on 10 September 2025: [Link]

2. Ensure repealing Parliamentary Pensions Law No. 01 of 1977 by January 2026

Implemented.

The Parliamentary Pensions (Repeal) Bill was passed on 17 February 2026 :

[Link]

3. Issue circular/guidelines to limit staff recruitment and vehicle facilities, fuel allowances, telephone allowances granted to private staff of Ministers and Deputy Ministers by January, 2025.

Implemented. [Link]

4. Restrict / Cut-down the unnecessary expenditures of the Presidential Secretariat by March, 2025.

Implementing: [Link]

5. Mobilize the existing state-owned bungalows previously allocated for politicians, for better public purposes.

Implementing. [Link]

Responsible Institution

Presidential Secretariat

Target date

May, 2025

Process

16. Update and publish the Action Plan on annual basis

Reform Commitment 16

Update and publish the Action Plan on annual basis.

Progress

Key Milestones

Update annually.

Implemented with delay.

Responsible Institution

Presidential Secretariat

Target date

Feb, 2025

Process

Last update: 7th October 2026

*Milestones highlighted in ‘Red’ were not in the original Government Action Plan but were added in by subsequent Government progress reports

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