Ongoing Projects
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: Transparency International Secretariat
Project Title: STRONGG (New) Indo – Pacific partnership for strong, Transparent, Responsive and open Networks for Good Governance
Period: 53 months (August 2024 – December 2028)
Value of the Grant (LKR) : 75,900,000
Project Objectives:
To enhance access to awareness and legal assistance, thereby increasing marginalized persons’ engagement towards accountability, increase public awareness and engagement on anti-corruption and accountable governance, and, strengthen legal and policy frameworks on anti-corruption and accountable, inclusive governance, and civic engagement demanding political integrity and accountability
Donor: Transparency International Secretariat
Project Title: STRONGG – Sustainability -Organizational Sustainability Funding
Period: 45 months April 2025-December 2028
Value of the Grant (LKR) : 24,793,800
Project Objectives:
To access to sustainability funding to TI Sri Lanka, enabling the chapter to enhance organizational sustainability by focusing on communications, inclusivity, resource mobilisation, and/or risk management.
Donor: Foundation Open Society Policy Center – OSF (FOSI)
Project Title: Promote good governance by addressing bribery & corruption, promoting transparency, and open government processes including through support to governance reforms for the benefit of the general public.
Period: 24 months September 2025- August 2027
Value of the Grant (LKR) : 330,992,678
Project Objectives:
To promote anti-corruption, good governance, democracy and human rights in Sri Lanka through awareness-creation, capacity building, facilitation, mobilization and advocacy for greater transparency and accountability in the political, public service and business sectors and among citizens.
Donor: Transparency International Secretariat
Project Title: EU System for an Enabling Environment for Civil Society (EU SEE)
Period: 62 months November 2024 – December 2029
Value of the Grant (LKR) : 31,000,000
Project Objectives:
To improve the capacity and ability of civil society partners (at global, regional and partner country levels) to detect and respond to situations of a deteriorating or improving enabling environment, and address and contribute to structural and systemic prerequisites for such an environment.
To establish a comprehensive and gender-sensitive enabling environment
To enhance capacity for monitoring and addressing changes in the enabling environment
To strengthen civil society capacities
To improve knowledge exchange and advocacy
Donor: Journalism Development Network
Project Title: Global Anti-Corruption Consortium (GACC)- Sri Lanka
Period: 24 months October 2024 – September 2026
Value of the Grant (LKR) : 45,000,000
Project Objectives:
To address corruption problem by breaking down divisions between journalists and civil society actors to collaborate and share information as they undertake cross-border investigations to uncover corruption that can be used to strengthen advocacy for anti-corruption reforms and generate legally actionable data that can be used to inform regulatory and accountability decisions.
Donor: National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
Project Title: Empowering civil society in Combatting Illicit Financial Flows
Period: 24 months February 2026- January 2028
Value of the Grant (LKR) : 27,000,000
Project Objectives:
To support effective implementation of anti-corruption legislation, including the Proceeds of Crime Law, through capacity-building and coalition-building of civil society organizations
To strengthen investigative journalism to expose corruption and mobilize citizen demand for accountability.
To enhance scrutiny of Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) through a publicly accessible database, citizen oversight, and secure whistle-blowing mechanisms.
Donor: Smith Richardson Foundation, Inc
Project Title: Countering Opaque Negotiations and Confidentiality in External Agreements and Lending (CONCEAL)
Period: 14 months February 2026- March 2027
Value of the Grant (LKR) : 6,750,000
Project Objectives:
To counter the use of confidentiality clauses in borrowing agreements by Chinese and other lenders through a combined approach of evidence generation, analysis and targeted advocacy at both national and global levels.
To strengthen domestic transparency to reduce opportunities for corruption in debt acquisition and management.
To draw on a set of case studies from countries currently at risk of debt distress—Malawi, Sri Lanka and Venezuela—to highlight China’s and other creditors’ hidden debt practices across different governance, economic, and strategic contexts.
To build on this evidence to implement a global advocacy strategy to influence reforms while simultaneously supporting national-level efforts to limit the use of confidentiality clauses in lending agreements.
Donor: CFLI (Canada Local Fund Initiative)
Project Title: Strengthening inclusive citizen participation, transparency, and accountability in Sri Lanka through GEDSI-informed anti-corruption assessments, community consultations, ALAC outreach, and public awareness campaigns across national and sub-national governance systems
Period: 13 months July 2026- July 2027
Value of the Grant (LKR) : 8,712,000
Project Objectives:
To map existing CSO and community engagement channels at local and provincial levels to assess perceptions of corruption and barriers to civic participation and reporting, with data disaggregated across vulnerable groups.
To develop GEDSI-integrated policy recommendations and knowledge products to guide local, provincial, and national governance reforms based on this analysis.
To create civic engagement tools, digital platforms, and public awareness materials to strengthen citizen oversight.
To strengthen Transparency International Sri Lanka’s Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre (ALAC) network.
To foster partnerships between CSOs, local councils, oversight institutions, and representatives of marginalized communities to enhance inclusive participation, transparency, and accountability.
Donor: Hatton National Bank PLC (HNB)
Project Title: Business at the Frontline: Investing in Integrity for Sustainable Market Advantage (CSR Project)
Period: November 2025- September 2026
Value of the Grant (LKR) : 6,000,000
Project Objectives:
To transform CSR investments into a focused anti-corruption engagement, including events, legal support services, community outreach, and private sector dialogues.
To foster a replicable model for private sector-led integrity initiatives in Sri Lanka.
Donor: Global Civil Society Coalition for the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC)
Project Title: UNCAC Parallel Report and Follow-up Advocacy
Period: 8 months November 2025- June 2026
Value of the Grant (LKR) : 1,275,000
Project Objectives:
To strengthen compliance with and implementation of Access to Information to enable broader anti-corruption and governance reforms.
To strengthen mechanisms for public participation in lawmaking.
To strengthen Sri Lanka’s role in pushing for transparency and inclusiveness in UNCAC fora.
Donor: Transparency International-Australia
Project Title: Fiscal Transparency and Accountability Initiative
Period: 11 months August 2025- June 2026
Value of the Grant (LKR) : 12,112,000
Project Objectives:
To raise awareness among citizens of the impact of poor investment decisions, and devise strategies for Transparency International (TI) Chapters, civil society and other stakeholders to hold governments accountable for infrastructure investment decisions and improve national and international policy frameworks. The programme will develop TI national chapters’ capacity and technical knowledge of infrastructure project selection and Public Investment Management process, support national civil society awareness raising campaigns and advocate at the national level for increased accountability of infrastructure Investment decisions.