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
