Background
UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.
UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is the main UN agency in the fight against illicit drugs, crime, corruption, and terrorism in line with UN Conventions and Universal Instruments. The UNODC Regional Office for South Asia (UNODC ROSA) is located in New Delhi (India) and covers six countries of the region: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
Under its Regional Programme for South Asia, UNODC is delivering technical assistance to South Asia under the following five sub-programmes:
(1) countering transnational organized crime;
(2) a comprehensive response to the drug problem (drug trafficking & drugs and health);
(3) countering corruption.
(4) terrorism prevention.
(5) criminal justice and crime prevention.
To address the objectives under sub-programme 2, UNODC supports governments of the region to implement key recommendations of the UNGASS 2016 outcome document as well as related Conventions. A project has been designed as a holistic and inter-reliant programme to provide essential health services and evidence-based drug demand reduction initiatives especially for the population affected by the economic breakdown in Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan people at risk of drug use and already affected by drug use and drug use disorder in national economic crisis are supported with essential health and social care, evidence- and human-rights-based interventions to drug use and drug use disorders through expanded partnerships with the Government of Sri Lanka, relevant UN and NGO partners. These services are to be delivered with special attention to those with special vulnerabilities such as children, youths, women, and sexual minority affected by drug use and drug use disorders. The aim is to empower capacities of governmental bodies and civil society already active in the region to scale up and enhance their ongoing work, to cover a wider area and offer a fuller spectrum of activities that aim at reducing demand for, as well as harm from drugs.
