Social protection responses to COVID-19 in Sri Lanka

Abstract

This Policy Research Brief provides a review of the social protection interventions adopted by the Government of Sri Lanka since March 2020 in response to the lives and livelihoods lost as a result of COVID-19. While its main scope is to map the government’s interventions in response to COVID-19, it was important nonetheless to also examine the general state of flagship social protection programmes that pre-date the pandemic. The brief calls for continued assessment of experiences and policy lessons learned from the government response to the pandemic.