The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is the leading UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe, and every young person's potential is fulfilled. UNFPA works in partnership with governments, civil society, and other key stakeholders to promote reproductive health, gender equality, and the rights and well-being of young people.
The UNFPA is implementing its 10th Country Programme of support to the Government of Sri Lanka, 2023 - 2027. A key priority in this programme is generating data and evidence to inform policy-making and contribute towards achieving national development goals. This will be achieved through support for generating population data and research in population dynamics, sexual and reproductive health, gender-based violence, and emerging issues such as population ageing, low fertility, climate change, and migration. The UNFPA Country Office (CO) works closely with the Department of Census and Statistics to strengthen the availability and use of population data. Strategic partnerships have been prioritized to accelerate the positioning of the CO as a thought leader in the transformative areas and is currently conducting several research studies with its research partners.
In March 2023, the UNFPA and the University of Colombo (UOC) entered a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a Centre of Excellence for research and innovation in population dynamics, gender, reproductive health, rights and social policy (COE). The COE is envisioned as a multidisciplinary research and innovation hub for the South Asian region and a dynamic catalyst for transformative change, leveraging research to inform policy and drive partnerships to address critical gaps in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), gender equality (GE), population dynamics, and emerging issues.
In addition, the UNFPA aims to work with the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) and the Department of Census and Statistics (DCS) to strengthen the availability and use of population data in humanitarian settings.
UNFPA is hiring a consultant to support (1) the delivery of UNFPA’s workplan with the UOC (2) the management of ongoing research studies commissioned by UNFPA and (3) the delivery of workplan activities to strengthen the availability and use of population data in humanitarian settings.
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