Sri Lanka dam safety assurance: country case study regulatory assessment
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2023
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Pisaniello, J.
Tingey Holyoak, J.
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This report is the product of research commissioned by the World Bank to undertake an updated country case study on dam safety regulatory assessment of Sri Lanka, a country that is highly dependent on dams for productive purposes and for sustaining economic development. The research is an extension of the World Bank’s Global Dam Safety Study (Wishart et al, 2020; 2021) which involved 51 country case studies and assessment of dam safety assurance systems along legal, institutional, technical and financial metrics. The research applies a novel regulatory assessment analytical framework to the current Sri Lankan dam safety assurance system and identifies preliminary policy and practice considerations towards dam safety improvement. The report represents a summary of the regulatory assessment and provides the foundation for more targeted future research to help Sri Lanka establish a dam safety assurance regulatory framework that will be most suited to its unique jurisdictional circumstances and will better protect its population from unsafe dams.
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Data source: , All information collected is mostly from publicly available documents such as laws, regulations, standards, government department websites etc. All the information has been populated into a master database file which is sorted according to the adopted analytical framework. A copy of this confidential master file is kept in safe storage at the University of South Australia and a copy was also provided to the World Bank., confidential