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Name: Cayathri Divakalala Country of Origin: Sri Lanka WLS Award: 2007-2008 Graduate Program: Master's program in Women, Gender and Development at the Institute for Social Studies, The Netherlands Background & Goals: Cayathri Divakalala has worked on development, conflict and humanitarian relief issues with a gender lens. Divakalala has been involved in a number of projects such as; working with the Suriya Women's Development Centre in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka on programmatic capacity issues; serving on the Editorial Board of "Sol," a Tamil periodical on women's issues published by the Women and Media Collective; and conducting longitudinal case studies focusing on the survival of women in poor Sri Lankan communities for Oxfam Australia. She also has served as an Affiliated Research Fellow for the Social Policy Analysis and Research Center at the University of Colombo. After her studies, she wishes to return to Sri Lanka and contribute to existing gender frameworks in humanitarian assistance, to strengthen research on women and development in Sri Lanka, and to make existing postgraduate programs in gender and development accessible to local communities throughout Sri Lanka. Post-Degree Projects: Divakalala completed her degree in December 2008.
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