ORGANISATION CHART:
The landmark of Sri Lanka has changed drastically during the last 3 decades into a place of hopelessness and chaos. The communities living in the extreme cluttered corners of this disturbed Island has witnessed the consequences of a more fragmented social fabric for years due to undemocratic governance, lack of accountability practices and deficits in transparency mechanisms
As an organized social entity fighting corruption and malpractices in the ground, The KINGS FOUNDATION has advocated for people friendly policies and practices that would eventually change the lives of the people who have undergone mass sufferings.
As our name proclaims, we wanted to be the leaders in the foray to utilize all our resources maximizing a pragmatic process of change that can be testified by the people for the people by the people.
All we want to do is to put people in the centre of development planning where people are empowered with the extreme power and likelihood to take decision that affect their day to day life
In addition we strong with the People, leading the way and showing the gateway of a Pragmatic democratic process that adheres the values of Transparency and Accountability.
Thus, the Kings Foundation was formed in the year 2012 by likeminded justice, democratic and social activists in the eastern shores of Sri Lanka
In our steadfast march as leaders promoting accountable governance, we understand the plight of the communities we serve and we always address them as ACTIVE RIGHT HOLDERS of the results we produce together with the People and the civil society organizations.
The organizational operation area is all islands but at the present our focal target area is Northern eastern region of the country that has suffered the serious consequences of the civil unrest and the chronic poverty.
| Name and position | Gender | Experience |
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| SM.Safahir (BBA,LLB) CEO/Director | Male |
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| K.M.Ubaithullah Secretary | Male |
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| Kuriya Subair Abdullah Program Manager | Male |
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| S.Sahith B.Com Finance Manager | Male | |
| M.N.M.Sumail (Business Management) HND UK Admin Manager | Male |
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| M.S.Najarkhan Admin Officer | Male |
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| T.Reema Bagum Project Officer | Female |
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| J.K.F.Mazeena BA Finance Manager | Female |
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| R.Sharmila BA, Project Coordinator | Female |
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| S.Zarfin Documentary | Female |
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“Leaders in the social arena for accountable governance”
“Connecting people as agents for change”
Kings Foundation’s Sri Lanka objective is sustaining community based initiatives that can fight corruption and malpractices at all levels of the community.
Mobilizing communities for a just and sustainable people’s order.
Diversity and equality – we believe in diversity and equality in extending our services to everyone who needs them, irrespective of race, gender or sexual orientation. We respect socio- cultural values, norms and concerns of the people.
Good governance – we value participatory, consensus oriented, accountable and transparent decision-making. The process, by which decisions are implemented, should be responsive, effective, efficient, equitable and inclusive and follow the rule of law.
Sustainability – we uphold sustainability of programme effectiveness, financial security and organizational viability.
Networking - Mediating and networking between and among the community based organizations and the governmental institutions to create space for sharing experiences, knowledge, wisdom and resources.
Institution Building - Facilitating institution building to promote participatory democracy, peace, human rights, transparency and accountability.
Quality – our product, services and programmes are gender sensitive, non-judgmental, affordable and are high quality.
Volunteerism – we believe the spirit of volunteerism as central to achieving our goals and ideas.
Choice – we believe and respect free choice and the rights of all individuals.
Collective approach : Strengthening community based societies to reduce occurrence of human rights violation (HRV) to bring out changes in attitude, behaviors, policies, structures and law through raising opposition and prevention among officials from the government sectors and the community : have collective approaches for reasons and solutions for HR issues gathering service providers: apply a collective approach suitable to lead towards solutions with participation of the service providers after having a deep concern and clearance in various dimensions of violation. Meanwhile service providers’ network will have a collective approach to handle social issues, which arise during implementation of solutions.
Rights based approach : All the plans and activities of Kings Foundation Sri Lanka focus on ensuring rights and dignity of the affected persons who is easily vulnerable to further violations (especially women those who are vulnerable to violation with gender inequality). Moreover, the Kings Foundation – Sri Lanka works on protection and promotion rights of civilians, the victims of gender based violence, discrimination, and domination and human rights violations.
Development approach : The Kings Foundation – Sri Lanka conducts sustainable development activities for the affected communities ensuring equal sharing development resources to the communities and the vulnerable.
The organizational operation area is all islands but at the present our focal target area is Northern eastern region of the country that has suffered the serious consequences of the civil unrest and the chronic poverty.
Enhancing community literacy and knowledge
Our prime focus is on community literacy and knowledge where we believe that mobilizing and creating well informed communities at the grassroots can bring about massive changes in the lives of the people. We use traditional and contemporary tools to enhance the knowledge base at the community level and people can strive to make the changes that they believe
Advocacy and outreach
We embark on platforms that can create a positive change in the community lives where people have credible voice to raise issues pertaining to their socio economic and cultural development. We want to see that the state and development practitioners listen to the people’s voice in all its aspects.
Development viability
We focus on feasibility of the development projects and the implementation of the same. Every venture that targets change should reach the people with the transformation it has proposed. We support community groups to form cooperatives for sustainable and pragmatic initiatives at the community level that could impact on the livelihoods of people.
Monitoring is a regular exercise in which staff and the target group has well defined role and participation. Monitoring includes maintenance of right holder profiles and records by right holder and his family. It includes qualitative changes in the conditions and lifestyle of the right holder with the observations. The monitoring mechanism includes with social skills, life-changing stories documented at all levels. Maintenance of day-to-day activities, training activities, advocacy measures and links formed with other organizations plays a key role in our quality assurance procedures. We always believe in reporting what we exactly see.
We are ZERO TOLERANCE against financial mishandling and we stand as a team to fight financial discrepancies. All our transactions with our 9 Profile Kings Foundation – Sri Lanka partners and community is genuine and open according with our accountability standards.