Inter-departmental debate competition was organized by the Centre for Gender Equity and Equality, Uva Wellassa University to familiarize the students with the concepts of Gender Equity and Equality. There were three rounds in the competition and the final round of the competition was held on 8th October 2021 with the participation of Vice-Chancellor as the Chief Guest. The teams who battled in the finals were team Computer Science and Informatics and team Tourism Studies. After a tough competition, team Computer Science and Informatics won first place. The best debater was Mr. H.D.K.M. Jayasooriya, of the team Computer Science and Informatics.

As per the activity plan 2019 for the centre for Gender Equity and Equality of UvaWellassa University, a capacity building workshop was conducted from January 3 to 5, 2020 at the university premises. An awareness program on ‘gender equity and equality’ was conducted on the first day of the three days’ workshop. Parallel training sessions were conducted after the initial awareness workshop under the themes of Creative Concept Development and Short Film Productionand Creative Concept Development and Performing Art for the selected students of the university with the participation of eleven resource personals from Visual and Performing Art University and Sri Palee Campus, University of Colombo on January 4 and 5, 2020under the same capacity building workshop. The resource personals participated for the capacity building workshopunder the themes of Creative Concept Development and Short Film Productionand Creative Concept Development and Performing Art are as follows

A Forum Theatre Session’ on ‘Pregnancy by Choice; Not Chance’, jointly organized by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Centre for Gender Equity and Equality (CGEE), UvaWellassa University for the students ofUvaWellassa University was successfully conducted on October 03, 2019 from 9.00 am to 12.30 pm at the MLT of the university with the participation of Her Excellency Robina Marks, High Commissioner of South Africa.

Three days’ workshop on ‘Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV)’ which was organized by the Centre for Gender Equity and Equality (CGEE), UvaWellassa University for the staff members and first- and second-year students of the University was successfully conducted from October 15, 2018 to October 17, 2018 at the University premises. Prof. Camena Gunaratna, Department of Legal Studies, Open University of Sri Lanka and Asso. Prof. Pia Axemo, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, International Maternal and Child Health (IMCH) , Uppsala University, Sweden participated as the resource persons for the workshop.

The workshop on ‘Gender Equity and Equality” organized by the center for Gender Equity and Equality, Uva Wellassa University was successfully conducted from September 18, 2017 to September 20, 2017 at Riverside Holiday Inn, Badulla. The awareness workshop was organized as an initiative step to create gender sensitive environment within the university community. This workshop was conducted as two separate parallel sessions for selected staff members and student representatives. Prof. Maithree Wickramasinghe, Dr. Wijaya Jayathilake and Dr. Harini Amarasooriya participated as the resource persons for the workshop from the standing committee, UGC and Prof. Kamala Liyanage participated as a resource person for the student workshop.