The Government of Sierra Leone will diversify the SRHR resource base through sustainable financing by 2020 Achieving universal access to SRHR as part of universal health coverage (UHC); reduce adolescent birth rates from 125.1/1000 (2013) to 74/1000
Commitment description:Specifically, the Government of Sierra Leone commits to:
Diversify the resource base for SRHR through a proportion of xx% of the health budget for the next national budget
Confirm increased health budget to 10% in 2020 and 15% by 2020;
Mobilize the required resources for the financing of the full ICPD agenda, and in particular of the “three zeros”.
The full implementation of the newly amended sexual offences Act (of Sierra Leone)
Ensure universal access to SRHR within the UHC programme. Government will aim to ensure that UHC schemes include an essential package of interventions that are integrated, person cantered and of quality that include preventive SRHR interventions, such as CSE, contraception counselling and services for adolescent girls and pregnant women, and prevention of STIs and HIV infection.
Continue to advocate comprehensive health financing mechanisms for UHC to cover the underserved and those farthest behind while also promoting a bold approach to universal access to financial risk reduction schemes
Zero unmet need for family planning information and services, Zero preventable maternal deaths, and maternal morbidities, Zero Gender based violence and ending all forms of harmful practices including child marriage and FGM
Ensuring that young people have access to age-appropriate information and services required to adequately protect themselves from unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections and HIV/AIDS.
The implementation of Comprehensive Sexuality Education and policies related to its implementation will be in the revised National Education.
Improve access to a range of contraceptives, including long-acting reversible contraceptives, through the establishment of an additional 100 adolescent friendly clinics by 2020;
Work with CSOs to engage youth through community-based outreach services for the provision of contraceptive information, counselling, including contraceptive services directly to youth.
Mode of engagement:
- Programmatic actionThe Government of Sierra Leone will diversify the SRHR resource base through sustainable financing by 2020 Achieving universal access to SRHR as part of universal health coverage (UHC); reduce adolescent birth rates from 125.1/1000 (2013) to 74/1000
Achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health as a part of universal health coverage (UHC)(3) Zero preventable maternal deaths and maternal morbidities, such as obstetric fistulas, by, inter alia, integrating a comprehensive package of sexual and reproductive health interventions, including access to safe abortion to the full extent of the law, measures for preventing and avoiding unsafe abortions, and for the provision of post-abortion care, into national UHC strategies, policies and programmes, and to protect and ensure all individuals’ right to bodily integrity, autonomy and reproductive rights, and to provide access to essential services in support of these rights.
