In 2004,CEPA was involved in the preparation of the Sri Lanka report for the Regional Poverty Profile published annually by the SAARC Secretariat. The assignment was undertaken in collaboration with the Department of Census and Statistics and the Ministry of Samurdhi and the Centre for Poverty Alleviation. The report focuses on examining poverty in relation to trends and analysis of macro data on social-economic trends, empowerment and decentralisation in the context of socio-economic development, and best practice case studies. The publication comprises a statistical annex and thematic and country-based descriptions.