What is UNFPA
Doing?
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 key issue in Sri Lanka with regard to gender-based violence through policy dialogue, policy advice and policy advocacy in the coming years.
ADDRESSING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE IN THE HEALTH SECTOR
  • Establishing gender-based violence care centres in hospitals for survivors of gender-based violence
  • Development of a hospital based reporting mechanism on cases of gender-based violence
  • Facilitating multi-sectoral coordination in cases of gender-based violence
  • Building the capacity of health staff in the prevention and management of gender-based violence
  • Facilitating South-South learning using Sri Lanka’s health sector response to gender-based violence as a model
ADDRESSING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL
  • Helping to establish and maintain safe spaces at the community level for survivors and women with an immediate risk of violence
  • Supporting the establishment of women and children units as a hub to address gender-based violence at the community level
  • Integration of UNFPA supported women centres in to the community support system
  • Provision of legal support and counselling through the network of community support
  • Promoting men and boys as agents of change in preventing gender-based violence
POLICY ADVICE ADVOCACY DIALOGUE
LEADING ADVOCATE ON GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
  • Leading the Forum Against Gender-based Violence and United Nations Gender Theme Group to facilitate a platform to strengthen the response to gender-based violence with a wide spectrum of stakeholders, including development partners, UN gender mechanism and established forums
  • Facilitating research, data generation and analysis on gender-based violence and emerging gender issues to support advocacy, leadership and empowerment
MAINSTREAMING REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

Improving the quality of reprodutive health service delivery systems through support to the following:

  • Integrating women's reproductive rights into institutional frameworks through sensitization of judiciary, police and legal institutions
  • Promoting access to justice by developing manuals, compendiums and guidelines on addressing cases of gender-based in partnership with Human Rights Commission