HIGHLIGHTS
- Delivering the Australian Government’s Direct Aid Program
- Piloting a Skills for Inclusive Growth program.
- Ensuring equity, inclusive outcomes and advancing localisation.
PROJECT
Sri Lanka Support Unit Phase 2 (SLSU 2)
The Challenge
Australia’s development cooperation with Sri Lanka focuses on effective and accountable governance, inclusive sustainable economic growth, and enhancing community and institutional resilience to internal and external challenges. The Sri Lanka Support Unit (SLSU) facility is a mechanism for responding to current and emerging priorities over the short and medium term.
The Approach
SLSU is a hybrid facility providing both enabling and development results for the Australian Government. Seventy per cent of SLSU’s resources are allocated to directly managing development programs. Thirty per cent is allocated to providing inclusive, efficient and adaptive enabling services to the Australian High Commission to support them in achieving their development and policy mandates in Sri Lanka.
The first years of SLSU 2 implementation have delivered governance, civil society and twinning programming. The largest program is aimed at strengthening governance reform at the national and subnational level. From 2025, the facility is expanding its contribution to supporting sustainable and inclusive economic growth through skills training and support to the Sri Lankan labour force.
The Results
The objective of SLSU is to support Sri Lankans to improve the effectiveness and accountability of the state and inclusiveness and resilience of their communities.
The SLSU will support selected ministries, departments and agencies, NGOs, private sector and communities in target locations to adopt more context appropriate and responsive policies, systems and processes for governance, economic and inclusive resilient development.
SLSU will ensure Australian’s development cooperation program in Sri Lanka is supported by inclusive, efficient, effective and adaptive enabling services.
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