The first series of national training programmes focused on capacity-building and raising awareness for women leaders and political activities of partner organizations, networks and their counterpart members. The objectives of this action were to develop a team of campaigners for the promotion of affirmative action for women’s participation in politics. The training programmes also aimed at proving advance level orientation, consolidation and strengthening of partner organizations and women’s networks who were previously involved in ccommunity level awareness raising interaction on women issues and women's participation in politics. These efforts have contributed to formation of sustainbility plan and a district support base for WPASL. The participants of the national level training programmes acted as resource persons for provincial level training and capacity building. Resource persons for the provincial activities intended to facilitate the formation of the network together with its partners and other networks the broader coalition of WPASL. Six workshops have been held in the districts of Colombo (3), Jaffna, Kandy, Batticaloa in 2010. These capacity building saw more than 200 participants from diverse backgrounds come together to share experiences, challenges and good practices in enhancing women’s leadership in governance in Sri Lanka. Participants learnt networking, social mobilization, advanced orientation for advocacy and lobbying for gender equality by using rights based approach intersecting with CEDAW, UNSCR 1325 and ICERD—promoting rights of minorities