Abstract
Poverty is the main problem in the world. In fact, poverty is recognized as the main factor that influence for the economic growth of a country. Apparently, many regions are still have the problem of poverty and make effort to reduce poverty. Consequently the scholars found the factors affecting poverty alleviation programmes are community participation, integrative framework, knowledge, stakeholder engagement, network, safety and security, redeployment, state of the programme, legislation and support, governance, political factors, corruption, lack of involvement, communication problems, problems of rural development programme, social sector and poverty, unemployment and the labor market, vulnerability of the poor, poor targeting. In collecting data Quantitative, methods were used. The primary data was gathered from Divisional secretariats staffs who are directly involved in the poverty alleviation Programmes has considered for this research in the Trincomalee district. There are 11 divisional secretariat in the district. Therefore, 500 questionnaires issued to those division. The analysis shows that political factors has a very strong correlation while communication and involvement has strong correlation. Moreover, knowledge has a negative correlation
Highlights
Poverty alleviation Programmes have been rooted all over the world but their success has been limited despite all efforts, poverty remains a continuing problem in all developing countries, almost half of the world people living in south Asia
As per the results majority of the respondents are under the poverty alleviation programme of Divineguma Programme with a percentage 46% (184). 38% (152) of respondents have been working on Samurdhi Programme and the least participation is from the other poverty programme at a percentage of 16% (64)
The main objective is to determine the level of success in poverty alleviation programmes in Trincomalee district
Summary
Poverty alleviation Programmes have been rooted all over the world but their success has been limited despite all efforts, poverty remains a continuing problem in all developing countries, almost half of the world people living in south Asia. Developing countries have the high level of poverty rate. The Bangladesh has the high poverty rate in South Asia. Sri Lanka has the lowest rate compared with other countries, but rural and urban sectors have the different poverty rates in Sri Lanka. According to Central Bank of Sri Lanka (2017), there is a high poverty rate in African region which is recorded 41% by 2013. On the other hand, when considering the poverty rate in South Asia it represents 15% in 2013 and remains in the second-high poverty in the world.
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