HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF SRI LANKA, Annual Report 2018 ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ take such steps as it may be directed to take by the Supreme Court, in respect of any matter referred to it by the Supreme Court; undertake research into, and promote awareness of, human rights, by conducting programs, seminars workshops and to disseminate and distribute the results of such research; award in its absolute discretion to an aggrieved person or a person acting on behalf of an aggrieved person, such sum of money as is sufficient to meet the expenses that may have been reasonably incurred by him in making a complaint to the Commission. do all such other things as are necessary or conducive to the discharge of its functions. 1.3 Organizational Structure At the apex of the organization is the Board of the Commission, comprising the Chairperson and Commissioners. It takes policy decisions for the discharging of the statutory mandate of the Commission. Board Meetings are held each month. At present, the Commission functions with 153 staff members. It consists of 04 Divisions namely: Inquiries & Investigations (I&I), Education & Special Programmes (ED&SP), Research & Monitoring (R&M), and Administration & Finance (A&F) Divisions. A Division on International Relations (IR) will be operationalized as soon as the Commission is in a position to recruit requisite staff. Each Division is headed by a Director and supervised by the Chairperson and/or a Commissioner/ Commissioners. In addition, the Commission operates through 10 Regional Offices (Ampara, Anuradhapura, Badulla, Batticaloa, Jaffna, Kalmunai, Kandy, Matara, Trincomalee and Vavuniya), and six sub-offices (Kilinochchi, Mannar, Mullaithivu, Nuwara Eliya, Polonnaruwa, and Puttalam,) to carry out its functions (See appendix 1). Each regional Office is headed by a Regional Coordinator and supervised by the Chairperson and/or a 20