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Programmes of the FPA Sri Lanka for the year 2012 are focused on extending sexual and reproductive health services to the deserving women in the plantations, apparel and migrant labour sectors. This intervention aims at contributing towardsthe dual goals of strengthening the economy and achieving theMillennium Development Goals.
Sexual and reproductive health service package delivered through the well-established service delivery points is intended to offer an Integrated Package of Essential Services (IPES) to target communities. The package includes a wide range of services spanning from family planning to well-woman, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) to Gender Based Violence (GBV) screening, all with the aim of ensuring the total wellbeing of women while empowering them with the necessary sexual and reproductive health knowledge to make well-informed choices concerning their sexual and reproductive lives.
The Center for Excellence of the association based in the head office complements its comprehensive range of services with female sterilization supplementing and strengthening the national programme. FPA Sri Lanka works hand in hand with the Family Health Bureau (FHB) through a vibrant cross referral system effectivelyaddressing the need of sterilization.
In view of the changing donor landscape and impending performance based funding; FPA Sri Lanka augurs well with its vision of being the pioneer in ensuring access to sexual and reproductive health as a right for all.
Sexual and reproductive health service package delivered through the well-established service delivery points is intended to offer an Integrated Package of Essential Services (IPES) to target communities. The package includes a wide range of services spanning from family planning to well-woman, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) to Gender Based Violence (GBV) screening, all with the aim of ensuring the total wellbeing of women while empowering them with the necessary sexual and reproductive health knowledge to make well-informed choices concerning their sexual and reproductive lives.
The Center for Excellence of the association based in the head office complements its comprehensive range of services with female sterilization supplementing and strengthening the national programme. FPA Sri Lanka works hand in hand with the Family Health Bureau (FHB) through a vibrant cross referral system effectivelyaddressing the need of sterilization.
In view of the changing donor landscape and impending performance based funding; FPA Sri Lanka augurs well with its vision of being the pioneer in ensuring access to sexual and reproductive health as a right for all.
1. Adolescents Projects
Adolescents program under IPPF support will focus on innovative modalities to reach the vulnerable communities. The target groups that will be given special attention: persons involved in the tourist industry, persons in the armed services, sexually abused children and the communities affected by the war. In addition, the program hopes to create awareness, through advocacy, particularly on the issue of Human Trafficking.
Strategic Goal: To strengthen commitment to and support for the sexual and reproductive health rights and needs of adolescents and young people and also to increase access to a broad range of youth friendly services.
Specific Objective: To increase access to sexual and reproductive health services for young, adults and vulnerable communities in the urban and rural areas.
Strategic Goal: To strengthen commitment to and support for the sexual and reproductive health rights and needs of adolescents and young people and also to increase access to a broad range of youth friendly services.
Specific Objective: To increase access to sexual and reproductive health services for young, adults and vulnerable communities in the urban and rural areas.
- The establishment of Resource Centres:
FPA Sri Lanka will continuethe established Resource Centres in the three Districts of Batticaloa, Ampara and Vavuniya and will establish a fourth centre in the district of Colombo.
Overall Objective: The overall objective of these centres is to provide SRH information and services to youth and adolescents. It is expected that through the provision of these services a behavioural change will take place among the youth and adolescents.- Youth Friendly Centre – Koggala: Besides the above District Centres, this centre which was established in 2008 will continue to function. This was originally established during the implementation of the HIV/AIDS awareness program supported by the World Bank. This centre will specifically focus on the vulnerable groups associated with the tourist industry in the Southern Sri Lanka.
- Information Centre – FPA HQs: This centre will function as a repository on SRH in Sri Lanka to cater to the needs of the researchers, academics and students. While providing information on SRH issues it will provide information related to Global and Local Population and Development Issues.
- Mobile SRH Exhibition: The idea which was mooted in 2009 will be implemented in 2010. This is to meet the information needs on SRH in the underserved areas in Sri Lanka. In 2010 the project will identify 13 areas targeting the rural and peri-urban adolescents, youth and the general public.
- Happy Life Project:
This is an award winning project popularly known as “Close to your heart from a Distance”. This project, which won the e-Swabhimani 2009 award for the country’s best e-content application in the e-Health & Environment category, was officially launched in mid-December 2009. This project is supported by ICTA of Government of Sri Lanka. It is designed to provide Information/ Counseling/ Guidance to everyone but with a special emphasis on young people through a choice of multiple uses of ICT Tools such as:- Internet based Information & support portal (Informative web content, real time chat support, tri- lingual email based counseling support)
- Interactive Voice Response System
- SMS Gateway (to provide SMS based counseling & information)
- Contact Centre (to provide information & counseling).
- Innovation Fund (IF) Project:
This project deals with of MO Films and documentaries based on issues related to young people identified by Youth Network. This is also an innovative initiative of integrating SRHR with modern technologies. This project will facilitate to create information on SRHR by young people for young people. The production of quality and creative MO Films will improve the knowledge on SRHR for those who create and those who access. The produced films will be uploaded to ICTA database and could be accessed also through FPA Information Centre.
2. Access Projects
Access is the second strategic goal of FPA and it’s purpose is to provide quality services with emphasis on Sexual & Reproductive Health through multiple service delivery centres and points. These will include mobile clinics as well. Access to SRHR information and services will target the entire Sri Lankan population who are within the reproductive age group.
Strategic Goal: To improve access to quality sexuality education, information and services using a rights-based approach.
Specific Objective: To provide quality services with emphasis on sexual and reproductive health through the centre for Family Health, Service delivery points in selected areas, mobile clinics and youth friendly service centres.
LILI (Light to life) (Access)
In the post war context of Sri Lanka there is a large population of soldiers who have been left diabled due to the devastating effects of the war. It has been estimated that there are more than 40,000 persons with disabilities in the Sri Lanka Armed Forces. Most of them are in the sexually active age.
The Light to Life project is conducted by FPA with the cooperation of the Army SevaVanitha and caters to this group of society. Its main objective is to create awareness among the disabled soldiers about SRH and facilitate their access to fulfill their SRH needs. The project delivers SRH knowledge and services to disabled army personnel. Having conducted an orientation program initially for the higher ranking officers, the association has also conducted workshops for other officers.
LiSa Project – (Access)
Providing Life Saving SRH services to IDPs (internally displaced persons) and newly settled communities in Jaffna, Killinochchi, Mankulam and Mannar district is the objective of this project. Funded by UNFPA, the project office that co-ordinates the operations was relocated in Mankulam in May 2011. Click here for more information
Strategic Goal: To improve access to quality sexuality education, information and services using a rights-based approach.
Specific Objective: To provide quality services with emphasis on sexual and reproductive health through the centre for Family Health, Service delivery points in selected areas, mobile clinics and youth friendly service centres.
- Centre for Family Health Project:
This project is an on-going one which comes under the Medical Unit. The main service centre of this project is located at the FPA Sri Lanka’s Head Office. Besides this centre, the services provided by through mobile and remote delivery points too come under the purview of this project. The project provides quality clinical care, SRH services and counseling to all who seek its services. - Social Marketing Programme:
The Social Marketing Programme (SMP) Unit is the social marketing wing of the FPASL. Its mandate is to procure, pack and deliver quality contraceptives through-out Sri Lanka through an authorized dealer network. The objective of the programme is to offer access to a wider choice of quality contraceptives at affordable rates. The most significant factor of this programme is that it contributes significantly to the financial sustainability of the entire organization.
LILI (Light to life) (Access)
In the post war context of Sri Lanka there is a large population of soldiers who have been left diabled due to the devastating effects of the war. It has been estimated that there are more than 40,000 persons with disabilities in the Sri Lanka Armed Forces. Most of them are in the sexually active age.
The Light to Life project is conducted by FPA with the cooperation of the Army SevaVanitha and caters to this group of society. Its main objective is to create awareness among the disabled soldiers about SRH and facilitate their access to fulfill their SRH needs. The project delivers SRH knowledge and services to disabled army personnel. Having conducted an orientation program initially for the higher ranking officers, the association has also conducted workshops for other officers.
LiSa Project – (Access)
Providing Life Saving SRH services to IDPs (internally displaced persons) and newly settled communities in Jaffna, Killinochchi, Mankulam and Mannar district is the objective of this project. Funded by UNFPA, the project office that co-ordinates the operations was relocated in Mankulam in May 2011. Click here for more information
3. Abortion Projects
- Reduce the Burden of unsafe abortion Project:
The objective of the project is to raise awareness among the general public, Policy Makers and key Professional groups on the impact of unsafe abortions on the wellbeing and the rights of the females who seek such services. The project will implement a two pronged strategy. One is by increasing access to contraceptive services and improving their quality and the other is by developing a working relationship with organizations such as SLCOG with the objective of advocating changes to the law that allow abortion specially for rape, incest and major fetal disorders.
4. Advocacy Projects
- Advocacy for Sexual Health (ASH) Project:
Even after 15 years of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo, still a majority of policy makers, politicians and the general public have a limited understanding and do not view the concepts of SRHR in the correct perspective. Through this project in the year 2010 FPA Sri Lanka hopes “putting Sexual and Reproductive Health on the National Agenda”. The project hopes to achieve this through the strategic engagement of Law and Policy makers to highlight current issues on SRHR and by calculated use of the media to increase the visibility of advocacy activities.
5. AIDS Projects
Link Project began in 2009 with a view to support MDG 6 where the project focused mainly on Linking SRH and HIV to address the needs of PLHIV and MARP (Most at Risk Populations) in Sri Lanka.
This project envisioned empowering of all MARPs and PLHIV to fulfill and exercise their sexual and reproductive health & rights.
The initial project which was funded by IPPF had a three year time frame and it ended in March 2011. The project had two key activities and they were to build the capacity of FPA Sri Lanka’s staff and partners working with PLHIV, MARP and those working with vulnerable populations and the other was to increase access of MARPs and PLHIV to integrated SRH and HIV services. In addition to this a Male Sexual Health Clinic was established at FPA Sri Lanka Colombo headquarters. The infrastructure of the clinic was developed and the services of medical specialists have been made available. Existing services such as counseling was strengthened and individual medical support was provided to 12 PLHIV initially and by the end of the project more than 275 PLHIV received services from FPA Sri Lanka and programmes were carried out for families of PLHIV. The Happy Life Contact Centre was launched creating a safe platform for those seeking a dialogue on SRH issues. Discussions were held with community organizations to understand and evaluate the existing needs of the community and based on the findings advisory committee representatives of all levels were appointed to launch the project activities from a bottom up approach. Also a referral mechanism has now been established, between the community, the government service providers and the FPA .
This project envisioned empowering of all MARPs and PLHIV to fulfill and exercise their sexual and reproductive health & rights.
The initial project which was funded by IPPF had a three year time frame and it ended in March 2011. The project had two key activities and they were to build the capacity of FPA Sri Lanka’s staff and partners working with PLHIV, MARP and those working with vulnerable populations and the other was to increase access of MARPs and PLHIV to integrated SRH and HIV services. In addition to this a Male Sexual Health Clinic was established at FPA Sri Lanka Colombo headquarters. The infrastructure of the clinic was developed and the services of medical specialists have been made available. Existing services such as counseling was strengthened and individual medical support was provided to 12 PLHIV initially and by the end of the project more than 275 PLHIV received services from FPA Sri Lanka and programmes were carried out for families of PLHIV. The Happy Life Contact Centre was launched creating a safe platform for those seeking a dialogue on SRH issues. Discussions were held with community organizations to understand and evaluate the existing needs of the community and based on the findings advisory committee representatives of all levels were appointed to launch the project activities from a bottom up approach. Also a referral mechanism has now been established, between the community, the government service providers and the FPA .
