EXCELLENCE IN CONSULTING

More than 20 Years
In Research, Consulting and Training Business

PASSAsia is one of the most innovative multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural consulting teams in Sri Lanka with a network of 05 virtual offices and collaborations and consulting partnerships with 27 countries in the world.

1999

July 31 1999

PASSAsia Founded

Samantha Pathirathna, Maheswary Vengadasamy and Hilmy Ishak are the founder directors of PASS Research and Consultancy (Pvt) Ltd which was branded as PASSAsia. In 1999 it was a home-based office at a rented annex in Borella.

September 1999

First main assignment signed

We signed our first main consultancy contract with the National Youth Services Council (NYSC) to evaluate its youth business school programme. We salute former Director General Dr. Sunil Jayantha Navaratne for his balanced decision to offer us this challenging assignment.

2000

January 2000

First Office Commenced in Kotte

We commenced our first office in Ethul Kotte. Small office space was rented out from the Sarvodaya Kotte office complex. At that time, team strength was 4 members.

March 2000

First International Partnership

We have signed a one- year consultancy project to offer training on “Gender and Development” for government teachers in 5 provinces Sri Lanka. The client was Helvetas and the provincial education ministries in Sri Lanka were the participants.

July 2000

Moved to a new Office

Due to growing demand for our services, we shifted to a newer and large office. At that time the team capacity was 25. Except support staff, all other staff were new graduates from different disciplines.

2001

January 2001

Commenced Small Business Development Journey

We were able to innovate small business development solutions and services for women and youth with Swisscontact Sri Lanka. Under this consultancy we were able to offer our services in all districts in Sinhala and Tamil languages.

2002

February 2002

First Sub Office Opened

With the partnership of the Asian Development Bank funded SPREAP project as a Business Development Service provide, our first sub- office was opened in Tangalle town in Matara district in Southern Province. Hambantota Sanasa provided us the office space.

2003

January 2003

Became the trend setter

PASSAsia was among top 10 consultancy firms and also was within the top 10 for most of the similar bidding process. Most of the stakeholders recognized us as being the most innovative consultants . Universities and university students were followed us to begin more self-employment.

2004

July 2004

First International Award

Company Chairman Mr. Samantha Pathirathna received The Most Outstanding Young Person (TOYP) Entrepreneurship award from Junior Chamber International (JCI)
December 2004.

December 2004

Tsunami Hit our sub Office

With the Tsunami devastation and its negative impact, we have to close down sub– office and compelled to once more again centralize all operations in Colombo. With this the decision to commence second sub office in Jaffna also was withdrawn.

2005

January 2005

Commenced its modern Office in Pitakotte

As a realization of one its major dreams, PASSAsia was able to establish its office building in Pitakotte with all modern facilities and features with an excellent TEAM work and the team synergy.

March 2005

Partnered with ILO SIYB Project and Awards

Become a partner with ILO SIYB to offer business development services for SMEs. At this time PASSAsia was able to win the second-round best partner organization and the best Tamil medium Trainer awards.

2006

February 2006

First International Research Partnership

PASSAsia was selected as the national consultancy partner through FORUT for the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Under this consultancy we undertook the post – tsunami desk review for Sri Lanka as a part of a global study.

July 2006

National level Government Staff Training

PASSAsia was selected as the national level training partner to design and facilitate Training of Trainers programme for senior government officers in all Tsunami affected districts in Sri Lanka. Project was funded by GTZ and implemented by Ministry of Public Administration.

2007

March 2007

Staff extended up to 120

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka selected PASSAsia as its consultancy partner for PAMP project which was funded by JABIC. Under this PASSAsia was able to provide human resources for 06 project districts.

2009

November 2009

USA Fulbright Scholarship Award

Chairman of PASSAsia Mr. Samantha Pathirathna was recognized as one of the very exclusive US-SL Fulbright scholarship winners for 2009/2010 to study small business administration attached to The American University of DC – USA.

2010

April 2009

Micro-finance Service Unit commenced

PASSAsia commenced it MF service unit with the cooperation of GTZ ProMis project and accordingly the team of consultants were trained on MF management tools and training techniques as international training.

August 2009

JICA Government Staff Training

PASSAsia was selected by the Ministry of Economic Development and JICA to design and develop national level front-line government officers training and capacity building consultancy.

2011

February 2013

Re-birth of PASSAsia

Re-birth of PASSAsia to align with external environmental changes was realized. Accordingly PASS Asian (Pvt) Ltd was registered by maintaining the same brand and the intellectual capital of PASSAsia.

2013

March 2011

Impacted by Global Financial Crisis

The Consultancy business was also badly affected the by global financial crisis. Some of the external environmental (political) threats also adversely the progress and performances of PASSAsia. Challenges were faced with difficult decisions and major strategic and structural changes.

2015

June 2015

Business Diversification

To maintain its business competitive advantage PASSAsia was diversified with ICT, Human Resources, Community Tourism consultancy and advertising and Mass communication fields with other national and international business partners.

2017

January 2017

Cloud Solutions Launched

PASSAsia commenced its operations to offer cloud accounting for SMEs and mobile data collection solutions for NGOs and government organizations with amazing results.

2019

March 2019

New Global Consulting Partnership

PASSAsia established a strategic business partnership with Integrated Risk Management Associates LLC – USA to undertake advance qualitative research studies for NGOs, universities and government projects.

April 2019

Easter Sunday Attack an Economic Shock

From April to August 2019 most of the regular operations were disrupted. Diversification related to Tourism was also threatened. We were able to manage with some of the ICT service provisions.

2020

January 2020

Recorded no of Jobs within 30 days

PASSAsia has recorded its highest number of business contracts signed within 30 days in its history. Clients including SMEs, Fortune 500 company, INGOs, NGOs, Government organization and leading Universities.

March 2020

COVID-19

While praying and hoping for the well-being of humans, we are exploring all possible ways and means to support our clients to be resilience and competitive to deal with COVID-19 pandemic. In this regard, our team is functioning well with a virtual office platform and we are ready to support government organizations, NGOs and SMEs. We strongly believe that building such partnerships are essential and use of technology with creative and innovative solutions are a must at this juncture. Rejuvenating micro, small and medium business and livelihoods will be one of the key priorities for the entire world.

April 2020

Consultant to National level COVID-19 Impact Study

PASSAsia partnered with Ministry of Small & Medium Business and Enterprise Development of Sri Lanka together with University of Colombo, Sabaragamuwa University and Peradeniya university to design and execute a rapid study “COVID-19 Impact on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in Sri Lanka” using virtual meeting facilitation and remote data collection.

April 2020

First Virtual Course for Youth in Sinhala and Tamil Languages

PASSAsia was a pioneer to design, develop and facilitate Participatory Action Research training course for Sri Lanka youth in 11 districts for one of the Youth Empowerment program of Sarvodaya.  Virtual courses were offered in Sinhala and Tamil languages. It was ended as a great success with a new its kind of innovation in Sri Lanka.

May 2020

Become a Partner of Eval4Action Global Campaign

The Decade of EVALUATION for Action, also the Eval4Action campaign, calls upon all actors, everywhere to accelerate the delivery of Sustainable Development Goals, by advocating for stronger evaluation capacities and evidence-based policies. PASSAsia is one of the partners of this global effort.

May 2020

A Start-up Mentor and Expert for HULT Prize 2020

Chairman of PASSAsia Mr. Samantha Pathirathna was awarded as Start-up expert/mentor for HULT Prize 2020 programme. Building Startups That Have a Positive Impact on our Planet With Every Dollar Earned. HOW WILL YOU CHANGE THE WORLD WITH US$1 MILLION is the theme for start-up teams.

August 2020

ILO Micro and Small Enterprise COVID Recovery Project

Chairman of PASSAsia Mr. Samantha Pathirathna contributes as the National Consultant for ILO Micro and Small Entreprise (MSEs) COVID Recovery project together with government stakeholders, chambers and private sector.

September 2020

Member Asia Pacific Regional Evaluation Strategy Planning Committee

Chairman of PASSAsia Mr. Samantha Pathirathna contributes as a member of Asia Pasific Evaluation, Strategic Planning Committee and PASSAsia, volunteered to host AP Regional Stakeholder consultation session on 9th Oct 2020.

October 2020

MoU signed with APEvA to commence Virtual M&E Course

Sri Lanka Evaluation Association (SLEvA) and PASSAsia has signed a MoU to introduce a novel M&E course as a Virtual Learning opportunity and facility.

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"Our intention at the inception was to demonstrate the world that multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary team is the best blend not only for peace and harmony but also for creative, innovative and entrepreneurial business"
We respect and value diversity as a strength.
Address
67A, 1/1, Thalawathugoda Road
Pitakotte, 10100, Sri Lanka
Phone
+94 114 383869
+94 112 870 500
+94 77 109 9535
Email
office@passasia.com
info@consultant.lk
samantha@passasia.com

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    PASSAsiaCentral Office
    Humanity-Creativity-Innovation-Entrepreneurship to craft SOLUTIONS.
    PARTNERSHIPS & VIRTUAL OFFICESPartnerships with 27 Countries & 5 Virtual Offices
    PASSAsia_Global_Map
    GET IN TOUCHPASSAsia Social links
    We talk, teach and act towards responsible social media use as a wise tool to enable achieving SGDs by 2030.

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