Talk on ‘GAMMADDA’ delivered at Oxford University

COLOMBO (News 1st); The ‘Oxford Symposium 2024’, which was held at the prestigious 1,000-year old British University earlier this month featured a 30-minute talk on Sri Lanka’s rural development movement ‘Gammadda’.  

Delivered at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University by CMG Group Director Chevaan Daniel, the talk centered around the ‘people-driven’ nature of the movement, its evolution and future.  

Gammadda is today one of Sri Lanka’s largest grassroots movements and counts Brown University and The Clinton School of Public Service amongst its global academic partners.

The talk at Oxford was felicitated by Dr. John  Hoffmire while the symposiums plenary sessions were held at the historic Sheldonian Theater, a building designed by Christopher Wren.

The Blavatnik School of Government, one of Oxfords newest departments, is the Universities public policy school and was founded in 2010.

Gammadda, founded by R. Rajamahendran, the late Chairman of CMG over a decade ago has today grown to become one of the nations most innovative humanitarian initiatives, with its unique model of people-centric development projects based on facts gathered through extremely detailed data-gathering operations at the ground-level, in partnership with the University of Peradeniya.