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An inclusive development practitioner with more than 30 years of experience designing and facilitating pro-poor inclusive economic development interventions in consultation with women, youth, persons with disabilities including those with psychosocial disabilities, and communities affected by HIV/...

Skills

  • Communication
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  • Teamwork
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  • Problem-Solving
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  • Creativity
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  • Leadership
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  • English
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seshadri

12/3/2025
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"Chintha is meticulous, thorough and clear"

Muneeb Ahmed

 12/3/2025
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Experience

Chintha Munasinghe

Work experience
  • I have been involved in designing interventions; funding proposal development; capacity development; process documentation; monitoring and evaluation; synthesis of information to suit different audiences; designing and facilitating sensitization workshops for policymakers; duty bearers; service providers; media and civil society. My clientele include – CBM Sri Lanka, ILO-LEED+ project, WorldVision Lanka & Australia, Berendina Development Services (Gte) Ltd., Navajeevana Rehabilitation – Tangalle, MyRights & Sri Lanka Foundation for Rhabilitation of the Disabled (SLFRD), ChidFund Lanka, VOICE Area Federation, CAMID, Neelam Tiruchelvam Trust, Centre for Handicapped, Humanity & Inclusion, Internationa Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), Barberryn Ayurvedic Resorts (accessibility development).

Chintha Munasinghe

Work experience
  • I led the team, providing strategic guidance and facilitating the change process of Navajeevana and developing innovative approaches and training modules in the areas of Disability Inclusive Education, Outreach Therapy and Rehabilitation Services, Disability Inclusive Economic development, Institutional Strengthening, and Social marketing.

Chintha Munasinghe

Work experience
  • Serving in this position, I was involved in many local and international consultancies as below:
  • SABAH Association - a project of Practical Action – South Asia & SEWA - India (May – August 2013)
  • Design and conduct a women leadership facilitation programme for Home-based Workers (members of SABAH Association) in 10 districts of Sri Lanka, to empower them for meaningful participation in the SABAH Board of Directors; Empowerment of Women Household Workers in Sri Lanka to form a National Council
  • & Designing SABAH Maldives programme
  • Canadian Cooperative Association (May – July 2012)
  • Externally Facilitated Review of the Livelihood Development Programme of SANASA focused on Rebuilding and Strengthening Livelihoods of Post Tsunami, Sri Lanka implemented in five affected districts – A project assisted by CCA (2005 – 2012)
  • INTRAC-UK & SOFRECO/ European Union (January-December 2012)
  • A project of EU implemented in Sri Lanka - “Holistic Support to DPOs and Establishment of Disability-related Coordination Platforms” ensuring the achievement of following results during the period January – December 2012:
  •  Result 1: An assessment of DPOs and PWDs’ needs as well as services and programmes available to them at Province level is made available.
  •  Result 2: Building on past and ongoing EU funded interventions, DPOs across the country are offered follow-up training and capacity development
  •  Result 3: A minimum of two provinces, selected on the basis of unmet needs and willingness to cooperate from the main stakeholders involved, are selected for pilot interventions aimed at reinforcing the capacities and coordination mechanisms of all individuals and organisations (local authorities, donors, (I)NGOs, private sector, DPOs) working on disabilities, with particular focus on local authorities. A range of recommendations as to how underpinning the interventions’ sustainability will be available.
  • OXFAM Australia (April 2009 – July 2010)
  • Livelihood Development Programme Review and Strategy Development in relation to their beneficiaries – Poorest of the Poor
  • Action on Poverty – UK (January 2007-July 2012)
  • Partner support, monitoring & evaluation
  • SEEDS (Guarantee) Ltd.
  • Providing strategic leadership of all matters relating to Enterprise Services Division (ESD) for delivering Business Development Services cost-effectively to the poor and non-poor under the EU funded project: Effective Enterprise Services for Poor Communities in Sri Lanka
  • PARTNER - Community Business & Technology Developers (Gte) Ltd. Sri Lanka
  •  Development of participatory research methodologies including consultative processes for information generation and analysis of projects on disability and livelihoods in Southern Province;
  •  Strengthening CBO capacity in monitoring and information documentation systems at partner-level;
  •  Field-level research on improving livelihoods and income management among families with disabled members;
  •  Stakeholder-level experience sharing and advocacy through improved communications systems and mechanisms;
  •  Training partners and people with disability on information product development.
  • PARTNER: REEP, Kenya
  •  Synthesis of learning and challenges of HIV/AIDS affected communities participated at REEP-APT Interventions (2007)
  •  Project Final Evaluation – Empowerment and Income for HIV/AIDS affected People Butula Division-Busia District, Kenya for DfID (2008)
  •  Project Final Evaluation – LIFE 2 in Nambale, Kenya: a four year project funded by Big Lottery Fund (April 2012)
  • PARTNER: NUDIPU, Uganda
  •  Project Evaluation – Building the Capacity of Disabled People in Northern Uganda to Access their Livelihoods (2008)
  •  Development of a Handnook for Disability Advocates and Practitioners – Building the Capacity of People with Disability in Northern Uganda to Access their Livelihoods (2008) based on Enterprise Based Training Project of NUDIPU and APT
  • PARTNER: MAPCO, Sierra Leone
  •  Project Evaluation – Building Capacity of Disadvantaged People in Sierra Leone to Access Their Livelihoods funded by DFID – CSCF (2009)
  •  Project Designing and Funding Proposal Development for COMIC RELIEF on Strengthening Community Livelihood Environment towards an Improved Life for Conflict-affected Children and Young People in Sierra Leone (2010)

Chintha Munasinghe

Work experience
  • October, 2001 - December, 2006
  • Fulltime
  • After the establishment of the Sri Lanka country office of BasicNeeds, my major role was the design and implementation of a fully extended Community Mental Health and Development Programme that facilitated social integration of persons with psycho-social disabilities in Sri Lanka in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, Provincial Councils and GOs and NGOs in the sector of social and economic development. As part of this participatory consultative action research programme with persons with psychosocial disabilities as key stakeholders, following interventions were designed, tested and scaled-up: Strengthening Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) model applied with people with disabilities to include persons with disabilities in socio-economic actions in the community (Partner – Navajeevana); Combining Grameen model of micro-credit with BasicNeeds livelihood approach for– inclusion of interested persons with psychosocial disabilities into existing Self-Help Groups (SHGs) established in micro-credit programme (Partner – GIDES); Community-led multi-sectoral Mental Health model that compliments existing mental health service structures developed ensuring the 10 principles of community-based services introduced by WHO (Partner – Ministry of Health, Southern Provincial Directorate of Health); Consultative Horticulture Therapy model as an effective tool to de-institutionalize the institutionalized persons with psychosocial disability (Partner – Mental Hospital Angoda); Family-based Therapeutic Livelihoods model for community inclusion of persons with psychosocial disability through economic support (Partners – Navajeevana, SEEDS & Sipsetha); Development-oriented Psychosocial Care for People affected by Tsunami & other Disasters that take the affected communities in collaboration with Southern Provincial Council in Sri Lanka; and Building capacity of persons with psychosocial disabilities to sensitize communities using life stories and advocate for their rights.

Chintha Munasinghe

Work experience
  • My work involved the following actions and projects: Development of Forward Strategy for the Partner -Techno Action (1999-2001); Business Development Services - Performance Measurement Framework Development - Field Research in collaboration with USAID (1999-2000) for Donor Committee for Small Enterprise Development; South Asia Regional Project: Support for Small Enterprise Development (SUPSED) in collaboration with SEEDS (Guarantee) Ltd. (April 1997-March 2001) with the involvement of partners from India and Bangladesh; Co-ordination of fundraising activities of Practical Action (1994-1997); “Do It Herself” (Gender & Technology) Communications Project (1993-1995); Sri Lanka Appropriate Technology Education (SLATE) Project (1995-1997); Communicating with small producers: GEMMA Small Entrepreneurs’ Magazine of Practical Action/SEEDS (1994-1997); Information Systems of Agro-Processing Programme of Practical Action (1994-1997); Rural Enterprise Development Services in collaboration with SEEDS of Sarvodaya Shramadhana (1994-1997); and Setting up of an Information Dissemination Centre for Rural Enterprise Development Services of SEEDS (1991-1994)

Chintha Munasinghe

Work experience
  • I was responsible for assigning journalists, subbing/re-writing articles; liaison with international media and research institutions; writing special articles, supplements and editorial (in the absence of the Editor), coordinating with production and printing departments.

Chintha Munasinghe

Education
  • Botany (Major)
  • Chemistry
  • English Literature
  • French

seshadri

12/3/2025
10

"Chintha is meticulous, thorough and clear"

Muneeb Ahmed

 12/3/2025
Provided a score of  
10
  for Chintha Munasinghe