City Shelter Profile Moratuwa Municipal Council 2010 CLAPNet Secretariat No: 14, School Lane, Nawala, Rajagiriya Sri Lanka Tel: 0094-112878893/ 0094-11404259 SEVANATHA Urban Email: [email protected] Women’s Coop. Resource Centre 1.0 Introduction SEVANATHA Urban Resource profiles were prepared for Kalutara Centre is one of the leading (October 2009), Matale (February organizations in Sri Lanka in Urban 2010) and Galle (April 2010) as well. Low Income Community Development practices. It has been In this report, offers the same contributing its expertise knowledge practice for Moratuwa Municipal in number of programmes during past Council, as which SEVANATHA decades those are mainly aiming at has processed in the City of improving urban low income Colombo, Nuwara Eliya, Kalutara, communities’ shelter and livelihood Matale and Galle. It has launched aspects. during May/ June of 2010 as a Shelter Profiling Survey within During the past period of time, Moratuwa Municipal Area. SEVANATHA has been working with most of the Local Government Authorities, Donors, Community Based Organizations, Public and Private sector expertise persons, Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Communities and with most of other relevant partner organizations in Urban Development practices. Meanwhile, it has been working in most of the townships in Nuwara Eliya Low Income Settlement Sri Lanka, focusing basically the Mapping Survey Urban Poor Communities. In February 2002, SEVANATHA has prepared a Profile for Urban Poor Communities in the City of Colombo with partnership of Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) and the UN – Habitat. In February of 2009, SEVANATHA prepared the Low Income Settlement Kalutara Low Income Settlement Mapping Profile for Nuwara Eliya. Survey Then the low income settlement .