Development of Social Business and Poverty Alleviation in Sri Lanka: A Study on Technical Cooperation of Japan

• Project/Area Number: 23530324
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Economic policy
• Research Institution: Saga University
• Principal Investigator: RATNAYAKE Piyadasa 佐賀大学, 経済学部, 教授 (90221697)
• Project Period (FY): 2011 – 2013
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2013)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
• Keywords: 経済発展 / 技術協力 / 青年海外協力隊 / 貧困削減 / ソーシャル・ビジネス / キャパシティ・ビルディング / 農村女性 / 市場志向型の製品開発 / 日本の技術協力 / 農村貧困 / キャパシティビルディング / スリランカの農村 / 近代的技術 / チームワークの改善 / ソーシャルビジネス / 日本海外協力隊 / 農村開発 / 貧困軽減 / ＪＩＣＡ / スリランカ / 経済自立 / JICA / JOCV / 持続的な貧困削減

Research Abstract

Japan, under its grassroots technical cooperation has supported Social Businesses through capacity building of rural people in Sri Lanka. This study investigated the effectiveness of such SBs by analysing their impact on rural poor and the challenges they posed.
Japanese volunteers facilitated capacity building of rural women to produce market-oriented products using their own resource endowments. This resulted in a higher income for villagers due to improved access to local and foreign markets. Human resource development; collective behaviour of entrepreneurs; networking with other organizations; financial/ material gains; improvement of micro financing systems maintained by the SBs; improvement of technology used were the capacities built through SBs. The dependency syndrome; lack of management know-how; instability of the market; inability to sustain independent management of the project upon the return of Japanese volunteers were major challenges of these SBs.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Japanese Assistance for Capacity Building of Social Businesses through Grass-roots Technical Cooperation in Sri Lanka : Performance, Opportunities and Challenges (2014)
  • Author(s): Saliya De Silva, Piyadasa Ratnayake
  • Journal Title: Saga University Economic Review Volume: Vol. 47, No 1 Pages: 1-32
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Japanese Assistance for Capacity Building of Social Businesses through Grass-root Technical Cooperation in Sri Lanka: Performance, Opportunities and Challenges (2014)
  • Author(s): Saliya De Silva, Piyadasa Ratnayake
  • Journal Title: Saga University Economic Review Volume: Vol. 47, No. 1, March Pages: 1-32
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Role of Japanese Overseas Cooperation Volunteers in Social Business Development in Sri Lanka : Strengths, Weaknesses and Challenges (Abstract) (2013)
  • Author(s): Piyadasa Ratnayake,Saliya De Silva
  • Journal Title: Conference Volume on Sri Lanka-Japan Collaborative Research Pages: 23-23
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Role of Japanese Overseas Cooperation Volunteers in Social Business Development in Sri Lanka: Strengths, Weaknesses and Challenges (2013)
  • Author(s): Saliya De Silva and Piyadasa Ratnayake
  • Journal Title: Conference Volume on Sri Lanka-Japan Collaborative Research 2013 (Abstract) Volume: 1st Pages: 23-23
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] The Impact of Informal Institutions on Resource Utilization in Rural Agriculture: The Experience of Sri Lanka (2013)
  • Author(s): W.M.A.G.H.A. Premarathne and Piyadasa Ratnayake
  • Journal Title: Conference Volume on Sri Lanka-Japan Collaborative Research 2013 (Abstract) Volume: 1st Pages: 17-17
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Japan's Grass-roots Technical Cooperation in Social Business Development and Poverty Alleviation : The Conceptual Relationship (2012)
  • Author(s): Piyadasa Ratnayake,Saliya De Silva
  • Journal Title: Saga University Economic Review Volume: Vol. 44, No 6 Pages: 157-184
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Strengths and Weaknesses of Human Resource Development in Japanese Higher Educational Institutions : A Study on Foreign Students in Japanese Universities (Part Two) (2012)
  • Author(s): Piyadasa Ratnayake,Saliya De Silva
  • Journal Title: Saga University Economic Review Volume: Vol. 44, No 4 Pages: 1-28
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Japanese Development Assistance for Capacity Building of Social Business in Sri Lanka (2012)
  • Author(s): Saliya De Silva, Piyadasa Ratnayake
  • Journal Title: 9^<th> International NAPSIPAG Conference Volume (Abstract)
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Japanese Development Assistance for Capacity Building of Social Businesses in Sri Lanka (2012)
  • Author(s): Saliya De Silva and Piyadasa Ratnayake
  • Journal Title: International NAPSIPAG Conference Volume (Abstract) Volume: 9th Pages: 44-44
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Japan’s Grass-roots Technical Cooperation in Social Business Development and Poverty Alleviation: The Conceptual Relationship, (2012)
  • Author(s): Piyadasa Ratnayake and Saliya De Silva
  • Journal Title: 佐賀大学経済論集 Volume: Vol. 44, No 6 Pages: 157-184
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Strengths and Weaknesses of Human Resource Development in Japanese Higher Educational Institutions : A Study on Foreign Students in Japanese Universities (Part One) (2011)
  • Author(s): Piyadasa Ratnayake,Saliya De Silva
  • Journal Title: Saga University Economic Review Volume: Vol. 44, No 3 Pages: 19-41
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Contribution of Human Capital Developed in Japan to Institutional Development in Sri Lanka (2011)
  • Author(s): Piyadasa Ratnayake, Saliya De Silva
  • Journal Title: Essays in Social Sciences : In Honour of Professor Dayananda Somasundara, Ed. Herath Madana Bandara and K.R.K. Lal Gunasekara, S. Godage International Publishers (Pvt) Ltd Pages: 115-136
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Strengths and Weaknesses of Human Resource Development in Japanese Higher Educational Institutions: A Study on Foreign Students in Japanese Universities (Part One (2011)
  • Author(s): Piyadasa Ratnayake and Saliya De Silva
  • Journal Title: 佐賀大学経済論集 Volume: Vol. 44, No 3 Pages: 19-41
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Strengths and Weaknesses of Human Resource Development in Japanese Higher Educational Institutions: A Study on Foreign Students in Japanese Universities (Part Two) (2011)
  • Author(s): Piyadasa Ratnayake and Saliya De Silva
  • Journal Title: 佐賀大学経済論集 Volume: Vol. 44, No 4 Pages: 1-28
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Strengths and Weaknesses of Human Resource Development in Japanese Higher Educational Institutions : A Survey of Foreign Students (2013)
  • Author(s): Piyadasa Ratnayake
  • Organizer: International Symposium on Emerging Sri Lanka : Sharing Japanese Governance and Developmental Experience
  • Place of Presentation: Ookayama Campus, Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • Year and Date: 2013-06-09
• [Presentation] Lessons from Japanese Overseas Cooperation Volunteers for Social Business Development in Sri Lanka (2013)
  • Author(s): Saliya de Silva and Piyadasa Ratnayake
  • Organizer: International Conference on 5^<th> Annual Sustainable Enterprises of the Future
  • Place of Presentation: Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
• [Presentation] The Japanese Development Assistance for Capacity Building of Social Businesses in Sri Lanka (2013)
  • Author(s): Saliya De Silva and Piyadasa Ratnayake
  • Organizer: Conference on Sri Lanka-Japan Collaborative Research 2013
  • Place of Presentation: University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
• [Presentation] Lessons from Japanese Overseas Cooperation Volunteers for Social Business Development in Sri Lanka (2013)
  • Author(s): Saliya De Silva and Piyadasa Ratnayake
  • Organizer: International Conference on 5th Annual Sustainable Enterprises of the Future: Social Profit
  • Place of Presentation: Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
• [Presentation] Japanese Development Assistance for Capacity Building of Social Businesses in Sri Lanka (2013)
  • Author(s): Saliya De Silva and Piyadasa Ratnayake
  • Organizer: Conference on Sri Lanka-Japan Collaborative Research 2013
  • Place of Presentation: Peradeniya University, Sri Lanka
• [Presentation] The Impact of Informal Institutions on Resource Utilization in Rural Agriculture: The Experience of Sri Lanka (2013)
  • Author(s): W.M.A.G.H.A. Premarathne and Piyadasa Ratnayake
  • Organizer: Conference on Sri Lanka-Japan Collaborative Research 2013
  • Place of Presentation: Peradeniya University, Sri Lanka
• [Presentation] Japanese Development Assistance for Capacity Building of Social Businesses in Sri Lanka (2012)
  • Author(s): Saliya De Silva and Piyadasa Ratnayake
  • Organizer: The 9^<th> International NAPSIPAG Conference 2012 on"Development Challenges in the Asia Pacific: Millennium Development Goals and Beyond"
  • Place of Presentation: Sri Lanka
  • Year and Date: 2012-12-13
• [Presentation] Japanese Development Assistance for Capacity Building of Social Businesses in Sri Lanka (2012)
  • Author(s): Saliya De Silva and Piyadasa Ratnayake
  • Organizer: International NAPSIPAG Conference
  • Place of Presentation: Tajsamudra Hotel, Colombo, Sri Lanka
• [Presentation] Japanese Grass-roots Technical Assistance towards Development of Social Business and Alleviation of Rural Poverty: Concepts, Performance, Opportunities and Challenges (2012)
  • Author(s): Piyadasa Ratnayake
  • Organizer: 「ソーシャル・ビジネスと貧困軽減：日本の草の根技術協力のあり方を考える」、弟９回佐賀大学国際シンポジウム(招待講演)
  • Place of Presentation: 佐賀大学
• [Presentation] Capacity Building of Social Businesses in Developing Countries through Japan’s Grass-roots Technical Cooperation (2012)
  • Author(s): Saliya De Silva
  • Organizer: 「ソーシャル・ビジネスと貧困軽減：日本の草の根技術協力のあり方を考える」、弟９回佐賀大学国際シンポジウム(招待講演)
  • Place of Presentation: 佐賀大学
• [Presentation] Japanese Grass Root Level Technical Assistance on Sri Lanka’s Regional Development: Case Study on Coconut Triangle Milk Producers’ Cooperative Union (2012)
  • Author(s): Sampath Amaratunge、 Sunethrani Amaratunge
  • Organizer: 「ソーシャル・ビジネスと貧困軽減：日本の草の根技術協力のあり方を考える」、弟９回佐賀大学国際シンポジウム(招待講演)
  • Place of Presentation: 佐賀大学
• [Book] Human Capital Development with Japanese Assistance : Past Performance and Lessons Learnt, Piyadasa Ratnayake, Saliya De Silva, Saga University Economic Society (2013)
  • Total Pages: 151
  • Publisher: Showado Co. Ltd
• [Book] Human Capital Development with Japanese Assistance: Past Performance and Lessons Learnt (2013)
  • Author(s): Piyadasa Ratnayake, Saliya De Silva
  • Total Pages: 151
  • Publisher: Showado Co. Ltd., Japan
• [Book] Human Capital Development with Japanese Assistance: Past Performance and Lessons Learnt (2013)
  • Author(s): Piyadasa Ratnayake and Saliya De Silva
  • Total Pages: 151
  • Publisher: Saga University Economic Socity
• [Book] 「Contribution of Human Capital Developed in Japan to Institutional Development in Sri Lanka」、in 『Essays in Social Sciences: In Honour of Professor Dayananda Somasundara』, Ed. Herath Madana Bandara and K.R.K. Lal Gunasekara (2011)
  • Author(s): Piyadasa Ratnayake and Saliya De Silva
  • Total Pages: 428
  • Publisher: S. Godage International Publishers (Pvt) Ltd, Colombo
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• [Remarks] Social Business and Human Capital Development
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