Domestic workers enable women’s employment and sustain urban care systems. Yet they lack minimum wage protections, EPF/ETF, paid leave and pensions.
Read our article to learn why recognising care work as dignified labour is crucial to advocate for domestic workers' rights ⬇️
Current systems are not designed to support communities through continuous, overlapping crises.
Read the findings from our qualitative research, surveys & ongoing engagement across Colombo in our latest policy brief: www.csf-asia.org/nothing-left...
Shocks don’t come one at a time for Colombo’s working-class households.
Floods, income loss, illness & rising energy costs intersect, while gaps in relief push coping into forced survival.
Read our latest policy brief: www.csf-asia.org/nothing-left...
Interested in raising awareness about social protection? Check out our practical guide on how you can engage with communities to understand, engage with, and shape social protection policy in Sri Lanka.
See the full guide here: www.csf-asia.org/a-guide-for-...
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CUL Director Iromi Perera recently joined government representatives and development practitioners from across South and South-East Asia for a study visit in Melbourne, Australia, to explore how other cities are responding to rising temperatures in real, practical ways.
CUL Director Iromi Perera delivered a keynote at the 2026 @uta-do.bsky.social workshp in Addis Ababa.
Iromi brought CUL's interdisciplinary work on Colombo's working class and informal sector into conversation with critical urban thinkers across the Global South.
Pettah’s Floating Market shows how urban regeneration can go wrong when projects ignore local needs and context. High costs, low relevance, and poor planning turn ‘regeneration’ into a tourist trap.
Read more here: www.csf-asia.org/white-elepha...
Missed our panel on social protection and urban infrastructures of care? Read our latest article.
Link to article: www.csf-asia.org/panel-discus...
Full report: www.csf-asia.org/social-prote...
Summary in Sinhala: www.csf-asia.org/wp-content/u...
Summary in Tamil: www.csf-asia.org/wp-content/u...
Link to article: www.csf-asia.org/domestic-wor...
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Domestic workers are an invisible infrastructure holding Colombo’s fragile care systems together. They enable women from the upper and middle classes to engage in the workforce, while receiving no pro...
