Title: A rough guide to survival in Sri Lanka and TimorLeste
1A rough guide to survival in Sri Lanka and
Timor-Leste
- Patrick Rawstorne
- Jason Lee
2Presentation
- A bit of fun!
- Challenges
- Rewards
3Sri lanka
4Map of Timor Leste
5Challenges
- Working within the context of in-country systems
- Timor post conflict, building governance
systems. Difficult bureaucracy - Sri Lanka Tsunami, bureaucracy, Sinhalese and
Tamil interests, class system
6Sri Lanka - Galle
7Sri Lanka - tsunami damage
8Challenges
- Cross cultural differences
- Sri Lanka weddings and funerals, poya,
buddhism and monks - Timor timor timepublic holidays announced
the day before
9Sri Lanka - on the ramparts at Galle Fort
10Challenges
- Language barriers
- Timor Portugeses, Tetum, and Bahasa
- Sri Lanka Two official languages Sinhalese
and Tamil. English taught only at private schools
and colleges
11Timor filling up!
12Challenges
- Away from support structures family, friends,
colleagues
13Timor road to Suai
14Challenges
- Incongruence between details of the grant and
what can be achieved - Timor Global Fund (proposed methodology RDS)
- Sri Lanka Inflated estimates of sub-population
sizes
15Timor - Community consultation in the districts
16Challenges
- Working in resource limited settings health
care needs - Sri Lanka privacy in medical care,
accommodation in smaller towns - Timor Availability of PEP and other
medications, districts instant noodles, no
electricity
17Timor market place in the districts
18Challenges
- Quality of life away from loved ones,
isolation, pollution, availability of services
and entertainment - Timor supermarket / service station / pizza
parlour milk - Sri Lanka pollution, entertainment / going out
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19Three-wheel driver taxi stand - Polonnaruwa
20Challenges
- Security issues
- Sri Lanka Bombs. Ongoing conflict between the
Tamil Tigers and the Sri Lanka government - Timor witnessed stabbing by a rioting mob.
Curfews post assassination attempt -
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21- Rewards not all doom and gloom
22Rewards
- Relationship building both professionally and
personally - Timor ICS, MOH, NGOs
- Sri Lanka MOH, Local consulting company, NGOs
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23Timor mapping team
24Rewards
- Sharing knowledge and lessons learnt expanding
capacity - Sri Lanka Relevance/value/recognition.
Chairing the Project Planning Committee. Being
asked as a key speaker at the annual venereology
conference - Timor Sit with the Surveillance Advisory Group
(WHO MOH) -
25Sri Lanka - Jagath Senevaratna (MG Consultants),
RBN Sunil and MW Jayasundera Consultants from
the University of Sri Jayewardenepura
26Rewards
- Research capacity building
- Timor (interns) formal capacity building
- Sri Lanka happens at all levels and often
informal -
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27Sri Lanka - mapping team
28Rewards
- Stimulating
- Sense of responsibility
- Hones ones research as well as management skills
- Sense of job satisfaction when things go well
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29MSM Dance party Mt Lavinia
30Rewards
- Broadening horizons experiences exposure to
new thinking - Learning about new cultures - working in those
environments - Exposure to new types of cuisine
- Seeing new places of interest
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31Unawatuna
32Hill country - Haputale
33Rock Temple, Dambulla
34Diver at Galle Fort
35Bevis Bawas garden near Bentota
36Elephant orphanage, Pinnawela
37Sri Lanka - stick fishermen near Koggala
38Galle
39Timor beach near K41
40Timor famous Christo
41Timor en route to Ainaro
42Timor famous Christo
43Timor cultural dance