Today, much of RECDO’s work is embedded in grassroots community-building, particularly with respect to supporting low-income communities in the Trincomalee District that are struggling to put their lives back on track since 2009. Our work takes us to where there are localized gaps in service delivery and where community needs are greatest- be it within the context of formal education, post-resettlement food and water security, rural credit and micro-financing, CBO capacity building, or other small and medium-sized entrepreneurial and income-generation initiatives.

• 2010 RECDO won the Mahatma Gandhi Centre Award (for Sri Lanka), and the Naro Udeshi Award that same year.
• It has also received honourable mention in a number of international conferences including the ACHE Insight Conference in 2007
• RECDO works closely with over 40 organizational partners, including large community movements, local CBOs, NGOs, INGOS and international donors, together with Sri Lankan state agencies and corporate stakeholders