A Forum Theatre Session’ on ‘Pregnancy by Choice; Not Chance’, jointly organized by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Centre for Gender Equity and Equality (CGEE), UvaWellassa University for the students ofUvaWellassa University was successfully conducted on October 03, 2019 from 9.00 am to 12.30 pm at the MLT of the university with [...]
Three days’ workshop on ‘Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV)’ which was organized by the Centre for Gender Equity and Equality (CGEE), UvaWellassa University for the staff members and first- and second-year students of the University was successfully conducted from October 15, 2018 to October 17, 2018 at the University premises. Prof. Camena Gunaratna, Department [...]
The workshop on ‘Gender Equity and Equality” organized by the center for Gender Equity and Equality, Uva Wellassa University was successfully conducted from September 18, 2017 to September 20, 2017 at Riverside Holiday Inn, Badulla. The awareness workshop was organized as an initiative step to create gender sensitive environment within the university community. This workshop [...]
A scholarship was awarded for Dr. A.P Henagamage, Director, CGEE by the Government of India to undergo a training program on ‘Gender Issues in the world of work’ which was conducted by V.V Giri National Labour Institute, Uttar Pradesh, India under ITEC/TCS of Colombo Plan program from December 4, 2017 to December 22, 2017.
Opening ceremony of the Centre for Gender Equity and Equality was held on February 22, 2018 at the Centre for Gender Equity and Equality with the participation of the Vice Chancellor, Uva Wellassa University as the chief Guest and other invited academic and administrative officers.
University Grants commission with the assistance from Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) of Sri Lanka has developed a mobile application to be used in emergency situations which may arise due to the threat of ragging or other forms of violence both within and outside the university premises. It has been developed in such a [...]
As per the decision taken at the meeting with ICTA officials on ‘Piloting the Emergency Safety App’ on February 17, 2018 at Uva Wellassa University, task force members were appointed to monitor the progress of the Emergency Safety Mobile App. Task force members were categorized under two levels (level 1 and level 2) based on [...]
A technical session was conducted between the level 1 of the task force members including IT team and ICTA officials on piloting of “Emergency Safety Mobile App” on May 21, 2018.
Training of Trainers (TOT) workshop on Gender Mainstreaming was conducted by the UGC in collaboration with commonwealth of learning from June 5-7, 2018. The overall objective of the program was to facilitate TOT in Gender Mainstreaming who are expected to initiate capacity building programs in their respective universities. Four academic members were participated in this [...]
Twelve selected students from each faculty were participated as representatives from Uva Wellassa University for the phase 3 of the Inter University Gender Festival on “Journey Towards Gender Equity and Equality” which was held at University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka from February 20, 2018 to February 23, 2018. Students performed a drama and a short [...]
