Sri Lanka Crisis: Rapid Needs Assessment

Sri Lanka is experiencing complex and multidimensional economic collapse since COVID-19 in early 2020. The crisis in the macro-economic sphere is turning into a humanitarian emergency at micro-level as millions of people are experiencing acute shortages of food, fuel, cooking gas and medicine. More importantly, children’s rights and protection are massively affected by the household economic stresses. This Rapid Needs Assessment was carried out to understand the impacts of the economic crisis on families, and their children’s ability to survive, learn and be protected in Sri Lanka.