With Sri Lanka recently emerging as a middle income country, UNFPA is shifting its activity focus from capacity building and service delivery to focusing on addressing the four key issues in Sri Lanka in reproductive health through policy dialogue, policy advice and policy advocacy in the coming years.
REDUCING
TEENAGE AND
UNWANTED
PREGNANCIES
- Strengthen knowledge and practice of family planning among populations with high unmet needs and among vulnerable groups
- Comprehensive sexuality education in schools
- Conducting research to assess the knowledge, attitude and practices among vulnerable groups
- Improving the quality and availability of commodities, including condom program
- Applying a comprehensive behavioural change communication strategy
REDUCING
MATERNAL
DEATHS
- Providing resources, and
guidelines
- Developing a robust and
centralized data system
- Improving the knowledge of
public health midwives
- Applying comprehensive behavioural change communication strategies
- Implementing the recommendations of the EmONC Needs Assessment
- Enhancing reproductive health emergency preparedness and response
POLICY
ADVISE
ADVOCACY
DIALOGUE
BEYOND
49 YEARS
- Recognise as a emerging public health issues
- A reproductive health
package
- Expanding the cover
age of Well Women’s
Clinics
REDUCING
INEQUITIES
Improving the quality of reprodutive health service delivery systems through support to the following:
- Capacity building of reproductive health service providers
- Development of quality assurance systems for reproductive health services and their monitoring
- Enhancing the quality and coverage of reproductive health services
