Talk on ‘Gammadda’ delivered at Oxford University

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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 Capital Maharaja Group (CMG) Group Director Chevaan Daniel, the talk centred on 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 University of Arkansas’ Clinton School of Public Service amongst its global academic partners.

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

The Blavatnik School of Government, one of Oxford’s newest departments, is the university’s public policy school and was founded in 2010.

‘Gammadda’, founded over a decade ago by late CMG Chairman R. Rajamahendran, has today grown to become one of the nation’s 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.