Initially ETC Lanka's focus was on Project Cycle services such as monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of programmes and organizations, reviews, impact assessments, formulations and development of monitoring systems. ETC Lanka continues to provide these services, in particular M&E and reviewscovering a wide range of content areas.

Since then we have built a reputation for ourselves as a reliable, committed and highly professional consultancy firm, working with a diversified clientele consisting of private sector, government and non-government organizations. Up to now, over 300 assignments and projects have been completed by us.

Our expertise is broad-based and includes institutional development, socio-economic development, human resource development and management support, Fair Trade, Fisheries, strategic thinking and strategic planning, community health care, relief and rehabilitation, natural resource management, sustainable agriculture, participatory project planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.

Our portfolio of services to both local and international clients ranges from expert and process consultancy services to tailor-made training, using participatory, state-of-the-art methodologies.ETCLankas’ entire partnering approach is based on community-centred Participatory Approaches, and its specific expertise lies in several areas including:

The Promotion of Multifunctional Household Environments Project (PMHE), implemented in collaboration with the Mahaweli Authority of Sri Lanka, in Mahaweli System ‘C’, facilitating the sustainable development of Mahaweli farmer families using participatory approaches, was one of the long term projects of ETC Lanka. The World Bank Sponsored PRA based Participatory Village Development planning pilot project (Village Self-Help Livelihood Improvement- VSHLI) that was designed and implemented by the PMHE project in 1999 was used as the basis for designing and implementing the Gemidiriya Project of the Sri Lankan Government, supported by the worldbank.