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Dr Anura Widanapathirana (short Anura Widana) is a specialist/ researcher in safeguards (social & environment), impact assessment, monitoring and evaluation and, community-based resource management. He has extensively worked on infrastructure sector in the past decade. An old boy of Rahula College, Matara, Sri lanka and an honors graduate in agriculture from the University of Sri Lanka, Peradeniya Campus (now University of Peradeniya), he subsequently earned an M Sc in agricultural economics from the Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya and a Ph D in sociology from the University of Sri Jayewardenapura, Sri Lanka. Formerly an academic staff member of the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Sri Lanka, Peradeniya Campus and later a visiting lecturer of the University of S'j'apura, Anura has extensively worked with several State organisations in New Zealand, Sri Lanka and Sudan. Anura has conducted professional assignments for ten international donor agencies and has undertaken over 100 projects in over 20 countries during his career of 39 years. He has written extensively with over 160 publications to his credit. Anura Widana's contacts: anura.widana@yahoo.com Phone: +64 9 2799109