Sunday, February 21, 2021

Management / Personnel Issues to cope with CCA and other work in coming Month

 I need to offload the work as much a possible - so all of you shall have to adjust your roles so that we give priority to the CCA - but with all others having work on this regard, 

- AN to coordinate documentation and see DD’s work 
- AN and RZ to coordinate MV work
- ZJ and FS - can work to assist me with my personal work - unless they are needed for other things. 
- TH, ZJ and ZI to coordinate work on the IT side 
- Sewwandhi on Water + Nelun and Ramesh can polish 
- Mafa and Madhura on CZM and Fisheries 
- Umar Marikkar, Jr on Renewables - but Snr hates Vidhura. So cannot do that. 

he can take over the finish up of the Websites and supervise the SLIATE folks to help TH. 

Am not sure how much the Interns are willing to contribute  - and in any case, we should not be overly reliant on them. 

We shall have to bring in Alum into this - CG, PE and SR 
- CG on the Graphics for the BHC - SR suggested a relative in Alawatugoda
- TH talk to CG 
PE can work on the EFL - I would think we just hand over the work on that to HJ and PE and move ID to help with the CCA project 
Shall email her - and maybe TH to coordinate. 
- SR - can contribute on IT - SEO and websites
Talked to Sanjaya R - he is willing to contribute - on the IT side - such as on SEO, Website compatibility, also we had sent him to S. Korea to work on CC and to Nepal on AgMIP - he shall give CV too. 
Looking to talk to some younger people 

For CCA, 
In reality, we have till end of the month - only 6 more days to put all together - thereafter we can get clean up of documents. 
We need to schedule work for external resources 

FS and AN need to make a list of proposals - funded or not for SL and MV - think you already have something. 
ZJ to make full paper archives for us to work off. 
FS and AN to make a list of Partners for SL and a list of LoS that we already have for past proposals or LoI.  

US
- LZ needs to send CV and other material to EI 
- LZ needs to send List of past work to Upmanu Lall 

In MV 
HA and AA - we need to get them activated - starting with a summary document - and a meeting today. 
Need to assure AA of role beyond March. 
Need to figure out how to approach govt partners, private sector and community orgs. 
Have to prioritize this today as their week has started and shall end early. 

In SL 
Get the following activated early this week and go to Colombo next 
VR - make him to get contacts for me. 
SP - Get Premalal Activated
Sarvodaya - Need to arrange to meet on Saturday 

Identify Past Work on this -  Sectoral Partners in both countries and whom to Handover Coordination
- Coastal and Marine 
- DRM - Red Cross, Lirne Asia 
- Water Resources 
- Renewables.
- Agriculture 
- Logistics 
- Fisheries and Coastal 
- Tourism 

Sunday, February 7, 2021

Management Staff updates

 WEEKLY SUMMARY 

I have send the summary of the weekly report -  I see that I had missed IT and have mailed TH to see whether he could provide some highlights to complete it 
- please review on the Themes concerned to you whether I had got the highlights 

AN - Research + Data 
TH - IT + Instrumentation 
FS - Admin + HR+ SS + Advocacy 
RZ - Finance + Legal 

That leaves out 
Communication 
Training and Education 
Which seems blank. 
Lets have this a regular weekly task for the Theme Leads. 

LEGAL 
TH and MS may attend court. 
I plan to come to be on the outside - had some car tire leak problems - am trying to see whether it is safe to come - with the spare. 
If Heshan is staying back - and he does not except what is essential when he comes by car - as he wants to beat office traffic. I shall be there to talk to him. 

Now shall be going to Kudugala to meet with Wijethunga who lost his wife on a trial - shall be away till 730 pm.
There are documents that need to be obtained from the Courts by TH - the receipts may be in Akurana - we have to figure those out so I can bring those. 

WEEKLY PLANS 
WITH TH AND I being distracted in the AM tomorrow , people have not yet sent their weekly plans 

Plans remain to be in Akurana on Tuesday and Digana on Wednesday. 

NARMADA HEWAGE has accepted but she does not have the online facility at home - i.e no computer. 
We have sent an email for 3 months - see fectcv - and she wants to be in Digana - AN is in touch - she has a Balagolla place to stay - so 
We may find an older PC for her - TH is still to determine which is suitable.  

PROJECTS 
My focus is going to be on the 2 projects - BHC and CCA proposal - I have a meeting Monday night to finalize somethings. 

Chemonics person contacted me - she used to work at EFL on the COT project. 

BHC project - talked to VR - his daughter left to Colorado yesterday - so his availability should improve 0 discussed a few things about private sector involvement in SL, possible role for him as Deputy COP, and so. On. 
We are due to have a meeting on Wed or later. 

Think Hasmiya is capable of pulling the report for the EFL project as long as she does not fall sick. Anyway that is not consequential. 

STRATEGIC PLAN 
Lets push it along as much as possible after getting the C&M students work on the project 

HR DOCUMENTATION 
We need to fix the problems of messed up guidance documents and how things are organized in the Internal Page. 

SLIATE. - TH we really need to send the 4 months evaluations for the 4 people tonight. Just let me know what state they are in.