Youth Participation

The Need for Sri Lanka’s EIAs and Other Development Processes to be Inclusive of Youth – An Opinion

By: Piyumi Wattuhewa The participation of the Youth should be taken into consideration at all stages of the EIA process. Image Credits: https://www.timesonline.lk/news-online/In-Pictures-Stop-Ecocide-Protest-at-Viharamahadevi-Park/2-1132652 The theme of this year’s International Youth Day which was held on 12th of August, 2021 was ‘Transforming Food Systems: Youth Innovation for Human and Planetary Health’. The contributions of young people as innovators and the eventual inheritors of a country’s environmental protection has thus been recognized globally and has been given centre-stage in conversations relating

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