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Sri Lanka and ADB
ADB fosters sustainable economic recovery and resilient growth in Sri Lanka through policy reforms and improving access to public services and infrastructure.
In the Spotlight
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Climate Resilience Starts Here: Sri Lanka’s Water Utility Roadmap
Sri Lanka is experiencing the accelerated impacts of climate change.
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Evaluation Guru 1: Four Lessons to Make Education Projects More Effective
Evaluation Guru is a short video series by ADB’s Independent Evaluation Department, making evaluation findings more accessible and engaging through the evaluator’s perspective. This episode features Ari Perdana on ADB’s support for education.
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ADB Approves $106.9 Million to Strengthen Secondary Health Care Services in Sri Lanka
ADB has approved a $106.9 million financing package to strengthen Sri Lanka’s secondary curative care services, improve communicable disease prevention and control, and enhance the health care sector’s governance and management capacity.
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Do you have a complaint about an ADB-funded project?
If you believe that an ADB-funded project has negatively impacted you, or if you and your community are at risk of being affected, we encourage you to submit your complaint through the ADB Sri Lanka Office for review and resolution.
ADB assisted Sri Lanka's rehabilitation from the damages and neglect during 3 decades of civil war.
The Serendipity Knowledge Program is an ADB platform dedicated to knowledge solutions.
ADB repurposed funds from existing projects and is helping in the import of essential items, SME support, and agriculture livelihood development.
Sri Lanka Facts
ADB's Work in Sri Lanka
The economy of Sri Lanka rebounded strongly from a deep economic crisis in 2022 and 2023 and grew by 5% in 2024. Inflation decelerated rapidly and deflation of 1.7% was recorded by end-December 2024, driven by lower utility and fuel prices. Better supply conditions have also helped stabilize food prices.
To date, ADB has committed 499 public sector loans, grants, and technical assistance totaling $12.7 billion to Sri Lanka.
Data: Sri Lanka
Forecasts are based on ADB's flagship publication, the Asian Development Outlook. Updated four times a year, it analyzes economic and development issues in developing countries in Asia and the Pacific.
Development indicators for Sri Lanka, including a selection of economic, environmental, and social indicators used globally to track progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals.
Results achieved are aggregate amounts of outputs and outcomes from operations reported in project completion reports and extended annual review reports circulated for the year.
Cofinancing operations enable ADB’s financing partners, governments or their agencies, multilateral financing institutions, and commercial organizations to participate in financing ADB projects.
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An ambitious and wide-ranging project helped return a sense of normalcy to an estimated 1.1 million conflict-affected people in Sri Lanka.
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- Asia Pacific Disaster Response Fund
- Asia-Pacific Climate Finance Fund
- Asian Clean Energy Fund
- Asian Development Fund
- Canadian Climate Fund for the Private Sector in Asia
- Canadian Climate Fund for the Private Sector in Asia II
- Clean Energy Financing Partnership Facility
- Clean Energy Fund
- Climate Change Fund
- Financial Sector Development Partnership Special Fund
- Global Environment Facility
- Green Climate Fund
- High-Level Technology Fund
- Investment Climate Facilitation Fund
- Japan Fund for Information and Communication Technology
- Japan Fund for Prosperous and Resilient Asia and the Pacific
- Japan Fund for the Joint Crediting Mechanism
- Japan Special Fund
- Leading Asia's Private Infrastructure Fund
- Netherlands Trust Fund under the Water Financing Partnership Facility
- Project Preparation and Implementation Support Trust Fund
- Regional Cooperation and Integration Financing Partnership Facility
- Regional Cooperation and Integration Fund
- Republic of Korea e-Asia and Knowledge Partnership Fund
- Technical Assistance Special Fund
- Water Financing Partnership Facility
What's New
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| News Release
ADB Appoints Sona Shrestha as Director General for South Asia
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| News from Country Offices
ADB Appoints Shannon Cowlin as New Country Director for Sri Lanka
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| Reports
Digital Public Infrastructure: Landscape and Opportunities in South Asia
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| Brochures and Flyers
Supporting Renewable Energy Pilot Projects in Sri Lanka
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| News from Country Offices
ADB Supports Pilot of Modern Pipe Distribution Network Systems for Agriculture in Sri Lanka
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| News from Country Offices
ADB Mobilizes $40 Million Emergency Trade Finance Support for Sri Lanka Following Cyclone Ditwah
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| News from Country Offices
ADB Approves $200 Million to Improve Water, Food Security in North Central Sri Lanka
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| Reports
Exploring the Factors Behind Low Female Labor Force Participation in Sri Lanka
Contact: Sri Lanka Resident Mission (SLRM)
23, Independence Avenue Colombo 7, Sri Lanka
Office Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Monday to Friday)
+94 11 4455499 / 11-2674488
Established in 1997, Sri Lanka Resident Mission's (SLRM) primary responsibilities include:
- Initiate and maintain dialogue with the government on issues that are relevant to ADB operations in the country
- Strengthen project processing and portfolio management
- Prepare the country partnership strategy and country operations business plan
- Strengthen working relations with development partners, academia, and the private sector
- Plan and prepare ADB's economic and sector work for Sri Lanka
- Promote external relations and disseminate information about ADB and its operations
SLRM will be closed on these dates:
- New Year's Day: 1 January (Thursday)
- Independence Day: 4 February (Wednesday)
- Good Friday: 3 April (Friday)
- Sinhala / Tamil New Year: 14 April (Tuesday)
- Vesak Full Moon Poya Day / Labour Day: 1 May (Friday)
- Poson Full Moon Poya Day: 29 June (Monday)
- Holy Prophet’s Birthday: 26 August (Wednesday)
- Deepawali Festival: 9 November (Monday)
- Christmas Day: 25 December (Friday)
- New Year’s Eve: 31 December (Thursday)
Last updated: 6 January 2026
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