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SRI LANKA
8 7.7
7 6.7
6.5 6.5
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5.3 5.2
4.9 4.8
5 4.6
4.4
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2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019
Story behind the success
• Free Education Policy (1945), Free Health Policy
(1952)
RESPONDING TO
GENDER BASED
VIOLENCE
2. PREVENTION
3. RESPONSE
AND RESPONSE
FHB 13
Prevention of GBV
FHB 14
CAPACITY BUILDING AND
PREVENTION &
EMPOWERING HEALTH CARE
WORKERS
RESPONSE
CAPACITY BUILDING OF ESTATE
HEALTH WORKERS
ADDRESSING SEXUAL
HARASSMENT AT WORK PLACE
FHB 15
Curative Health Institutions Preventive Health sector
FHB 16
Service provision on management of GBV
through “Friendly Haven” in Sri Lanka
FHB 17
FHB 18
Distribution of
‘Mithuru Piyasa’
centres in Sri Lanka
FHB 19
Year Number of “Mithuru Total number of new Total number of Total number of Total number of Total number of
Piyasa” centres survivors seeking subsequent consultation held consultation held consultations
care over the year consultation held with the family with the
with the survivors members of perpetrators
survivors
FHB 21
Challenges
• Seeking help from affected individuals and interest among healthcare staff
• Customary Muslim marriage and divorce laws do not specify the minimum
age at marriage
• Marital Rape is not a punishable offense in Sri Lanka
• Not having an overseeing body for the inter-sectoral collaborative responses
such as NPoA-SGBV
• Multi-sectoral and inter-ministerial basis and not by the Ministry of Health
alone
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