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Domestic Workers as Care Infrastructure in Cities

A Guide for Raising Awareness on Social Protection

Social Protection and Urban Infrastructures of Care in Colombo

White Elephants or Cash Cows? Evaluating Two Urban Development Projects in Colombo

Panel Discussion Highlights: Social Protection and Urban Infrastructures of Care in Colombo

Summary in Sinhala: Social Protection and Urban Infrastructures of Care in Colombo

Summary in Tamil : Social Protection and Urban Infrastructures of Care in Colombo

‘Legalised Begging’ and Elegant Targeting: What Ministers and Multilaterals are Getting Wrong About Social Protection in Sri Lanka

How can Colombo’s recovery from Cyclone Ditwah be transformative?

Thin Ice (Roadsides Journal Article)

Gendered Impacts of Heat Stress: Impacts and Policy Responses

From Informal Gardens to Planned Parks: Rethinking Leisure in Colombo’s Urban Poor Neighbourhoods

Criminalisation of Poverty in Colombo

Flexibility and Fairness in Platform Labour: Navigating Gig Work in Colombo

COVID-19, Economic Crisis, and the Erosion of Sri Lanka’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Commitments

Heat stress in Colombo: understanding impacts and planning for the future

Hostile Architecture in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Boiling Point Webinar July 2025

Centring lived experiences in food environment research: A methodological framework and application in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Recovery Without Relief: How Colombo's Working Class Poor Stay Afloat

Beyond Aswesuma: Investing in Transformative Social Protection

Electricity and Colombo's Working Class Poor

Youtube: Debt without Development Webinar

Debt without Development Article

Navigating Vendor Informality and Infrastructure in Colombo

Understanding the Infrastructure-Nutrition Nexus: Lessons from Colombo

StoryMap - Built on Sand: Colombo's Urban Regeneration Project

Built on Sand: A Review of Colombo’s Urban Regeneration Project

Reorienting housing policy for Colombo’s urban poor

Navigating Food Environments: A  Study of households in Colombo and Deniyaya

Mainstreaming Social Infrastructure in Development

Photovoice toolkit

Food Environments in Tea Estates

BCIS Festival of Ideas

Food Environments in Colombo

City From Scratch: An Interactive Game to Build an Inclusive City

Reclaiming Public Space: Who Is It For and Who Is Welcome?

Coping Through Crisis

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Falling Through The Cracks: The Impact of Sri Lanka’s Economic Crisis on Colombo’s Working Class Poor

Methodology for Mapping Urban Food Environments

Settlements in Colombo: Sustainability of neighbourhoods

Behind the scenes: Colombo Settlements Survey 2023

Are Colombo's working class poor really 'underserved'?

Does Colombo have sprawling slums and shanties?

Colombo Settlements Survey 2023

COVID-19, the economic crisis & Colombo’s working class poor

Quantifying poverty: Can we truly capture its complexity?

A research methodology to understand stories of development and displacement in two of Colombo’s markets

Anchoring meaningful community participation at the heart of nature-based solutions in cities

Aswesuma: High Exclusion, Low Transparency?

Borrowing To Eat: The Impact of Sri Lanka’s Economic Crisis on Colombo's Working Class Poor - CSF

Circuits of Semiconductors and Affiliation: a Shallow Dive into the Small-Scale Mobile Phone Repair Sector - CSF

Beyond Pomp and Pageantry: Looking at Public Markets as Lived Spaces - CSF

Breaking Point: Impact of Sri Lanka’s Economic Crisis on Colombo's Working Class Poor - CSF

Valuing the Catch of the Day: Towards a more Humanised Food Value Chain - CSF

Research methodologies: context and ethical considerations amid COVID-19

Chasing Efficiency While Leaving the Vulnerable to Their Own Devices - CSF

City Resilience Through Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture

Power struggles: Electricity and Colombo’s working class poor

Food for Thought: Rethinking Home Gardening and Subsistence Agriculture - CSF

FUNDRAISER: Cooked meals for one year

From Bad to Worse: Coping with the economic crisis