Sexual and Reproductive Health Education (SRH)

• Delivering Comprehensive Sexuality Education – for in and out of school youth, garment factories, Vocational Training Institutes and Corporates
• Developing a social media analysis on SRHR issues – in partnership with Hashtag Generation
• Strengthening Comprehensive Sexuality Education with young people – in partnership with the Grassrooted Trust.

Family Planning and SRH Services

• Advocate for FP2020 commitment to be well resourced and implemented.FP2020 
• Provision of SRH products and services via the Service Delivery Points

FPA’s 7 Service Delivery Points are strategically located in Colombo, Nuwara Eliya, Ampara, Seethawaka Avissawella, Batticaloa, Koggala and Nittambuwa. 

They oversee static, mobile and associated clinics, a collaborated effort with the Medical Officers of Health and provide services to the community, export processing zones and corporates. 

Voluntary Health Assistants work tirelessly in these clinics and conduct home visits to offer a range of services such as:

*Family planning 

*Counselling on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV)

*Promotion of good health practices

*Screening and treatment for HIV and other Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)

*Counselling and screening for reproductive cancers

HIV Prevention

In partnership with The National STD/AIDS Control Programme (NSACP) of the Ministry of Health, carrying out the HIV Prevention Project for key populations (Female Sex Workers, Men who have sex with Men, Transgender persons, Drug Users, Beach Boys and People Living with HIV) - Global Fund Project

HIV prevention initiatives include:

• Case-finding Model, community-based HIV testing
• HIV Oral Self-testing 
• Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) demand generation community clinics and night clinics

Strengthening the knowledge and capacity of key population groups (SKPA-2 Project)

Objective 1: Accelerating financial sustainability

Objective 2: Improving strategic information

Objective 3: Promoting programmatic sustainability

Objective 4: Removing human rights barriers to accessing services

Humanitarian - 

• During crises, FPA works closely with the Disaster Management Centre and the Family Health Bureau Clinics on the ground to deliver care to people in need.
• Building capacity of humanitarian workers on Sexual and Reproductive Health

Eliminating unsafe abortions and expand the current service access to match the global minimum standards.

• We are advocating for an amendment to the current Law on abortion to legalize abortion in instances of rape, incest, and fetal abnormalities.

Until the political climate for change is ready FPASL is working on changing the norms and attitudes of the public towards a positive outcome.

Communications Strategy on Abortion 2024 – 2028

FPA together with Publicis is in the process of developing a five-year communication strategy on abortion aimed to increase awareness and understanding of the various aspects surrounding abortion, including legal, medical, social, and ethical considerations. This will be a comprehensive approach to increase awareness around the topic, foster informed discussions, and support individuals and communities in making well-informed decisions regarding their reproductive health. The strategy will focus on promoting accurate and reliable information, reducing stigma, and fostering open dialogue on this sensitive issue.

This strategy will be utilized to advocate for positive policies and budgets for access to abortion; ensure marginalized women and girls have a stronger voice around abortion and increase the number of activists mobilized to campaign for equal access to abortion/ family planning. The primary target groups will be youth, marginalized women and girls, and activists.

SOGIE (sexual orientation and gender identity and expression)

• Sensitize policy and decision makers to reduce stigma, discrimination, and enhance equal access to services for all sexual minorities /communities.

The current Penal Code in Sri Lanka, section 365 and 365A are used to criminalise homosexuality in Sri Lanka and we are advocating for this law to be repealed.

• Strengthening the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process for Sri Lanka on LGBTIQ rights in partnership with Équité Sri Lanka 

Period Poverty

FPASL together with the Embassy of France in Sri Lanka and the Maldives is working with 13 selected grantees on combatting period poverty through “Collective Action Against Period Poverty” initiative. The CAAPP Project is conducted as a part of the Solidarity Fund for Innovative Projects (FSPI) with the aim of promoting inclusion and empowerment of women and young girls through better access to menstrual hygiene in Sri Lanka. The FSPI enables the French embassies to carry out innovative, high-impact and high-visibility actions for the benefit of the local community. Improving menstrual health and hygiene; ending menstrual stigma and discrimination; realizing human rights to water and sanitation; addressing the lack of adequate WASH facilities in schools; and changing societal perceptions of menstruation and womanhood. 
 

Sexual and Gender Based Violence

• Working with Women in Need (WIN) to develop Sexual and Gender Based Violence Standard Operating Procedures for the use of FPA Sri Lanka clinics to strengthen the referral systems for women approaching FPA clinics on SGBV.
• Working with the Family Health Bureau to strengthen the Government's youth and advocacy and SGBV programmes

Trilingual Lexicon and Social Media Analysis

FPA is collaborating with Hashtag Generation to develop a trilingual lexicon of keywords pertaining to sexual and reproductive health and rights. This also includes Singlish and Tanglish (phonetic spelling of Sinhala and Tamil in English text). This lexicon would be developed continuously throughout the social media monitoring period and will be made available by the end of the project period. 

Using this trilingual lexicon, a 3-month social media analysis exercise would span across Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok. The trilingual lexicon would be utilised to locate relevant content which includes unique post/videos, comments as well as Profiles, pages, groups, and channels which regularly disseminate positive and negative narratives regarding SRHR. Following a preliminary sentiment analysis to identify the specific narratives which populate social media, their prevalence, and to particularly flag negative and misleading narratives that affect equitable and informed access to sexual and reproductive health services, there will be report compiled including the data analysis and notable trends observed during the monitoring period. This brief would serve as a baseline assessment, particularly of narratives around SRHR in the digital space.