Ongoing Projects
Donor: Internews
Project Title: The Media and Civil Society Collaboration for Accountability
Period: 19 months (September 2023 – March 2025)
Value of Grant (LKR) – 45,000,000
Project Objectives: For journalists, media outlets, and civil society actors in Sri Lanka to sustainably counter oppressive laws and other challenges so they can conduct fact-based reporting to better inform citizens and hold government and authorities accountable.
Donor: Transparency International Secretariat – funded by Global Affairs Canada
Project Title: Clean Money in Elections
Period: 38 months (October 2023 – November 2026)
Value of the Grant (LKR) : 36,000,000
Project Objectives:
To raise awareness among civil society, private sector, and political stakeholders on international standards and reform options for political finance transparency and gender equality.
To Increase knowledge on how gender-sensitive civic monitoring and implementation of political finance integrity solutions work.
To improve skills of civil society groups and oversight agencies to deploy gender-sensitive political finance monitoring and implementation solutions.
Donor: Center for International Private Enterprise
Project Title: Sri Lanka: Strengthening Democracy Through Enhanced Public and Private Sector Accountability
Period: 24 months (October 2022 – September 2024)
Value of Grant (LKR): 32,000,000
Project Objectives:
To improve Sri Lankan private sector capacity in reducing internal corruption and promoting business ethics
To improve private sector capacity to identify corruption risks and promote mitigation measures
To develop knowledge base on corruption in the private sector, and on private sector approaches to anti-corruption
To launch the private sector Coalition Against Corruption
Donor: PACT (Bolstering Civil Society project)
Project Title: Leading the anti-corruption agenda towards good governance and socio-economic recovery.
Period: 36 Months (March 2024 – February 2027)
Value of Grant (LKR): 105,000,000.00
Project Objectives:
To contribute towards preventing corruption and enhancing accountability in Sri Lanka’s political, public, private, and community sectors.
This is a core grant that supports the entire strategic plan of TISL.
Donor: The Asia Foundation
Project Title: Enhancing electoral integrity of the Presidential Election 2024 through prevention of misuse of public resources.
Period: 02 Months (5th August 2024 – 4th October 2024)
Value of Grant (LKR): 25,980,250.00
Project Objectives: To enhance electoral integrity through the monitoring of misuse of public resources during the 2024 Presidential Election.
Donor: Westminster Foundation for Democracy
Project Title: Enhancing electoral integrity of the Presidential Election 2024 through observation of election expenditure and civic education.
Period: 02 Months (8th August 2024 – 30th September 2024)
Value of Grant (LKR): 15,000,000.00
Project Objectives: To monitor campaign expenditure during the 2024 Presidential Elections.
Donor: Foundation Open Society Institute
Project Title: Conduct a Governance Diagnostic Assessment by Civil Society in Sri Lanka
Period: 20 months (March 2023 – October 2024)
Grant Value (LKR): 15,963,450
Project Objectives: To pursue collective civil society action in order to conduct an in-depth diagnosis on anti-corruption and governance reforms for economic recovery in Sri Lanka.
Donor: Commonwealth Foundation
Project title: Citizen Engagement & Advocacy for Open Contracting in Public Health Procurement in Sri Lanka.
Period: 26 Months (July 2022 – September 2024)
Value of Grant (LKR): 14,726,723.00
Project Objectives: To improve efficiency and accessibility of public health procurement to minimize opportunities for corruption.
Donor: The Asia Foundation (TAF)
Project title: Support Implement a Pilot Initiative for Developing Lead Trainers on Anti-Corruption for Public Sector in Western province.
Period: 11 Months (October 2023 – August 2024)
Value of Grant (LKR): 2,500,000.00
Project Objectives: To establish a pool of skilled trainers using a Training of Trainers (ToT) approach, with the overarching objective of strengthening integrity and accountability within the public sector.
Donor: Foundation Open Society Institute
Project Title: Fighting corruption, defending democracy and advocating for governance reforms
Period: 24 months (January 2024 – December 2025)
Grant Value (LKR): 78,000,000
Project Objectives: To support TISL to carry out its core mandate to promote good governance by addressing bribery and corruption, promoting transparency, and open government processes, including through support to governance reforms for the benefit of the general public.