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Executive Director's Corner
JUAN ANTONIO A. PEREZ III, MD, MPH
MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
The new administration of President Rodrigo Duterte has recognized the relevance of population interventions in his platform of national development. As such, he pronounced strong political will to fully implement the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health (RPRH) Law as a component of the national socio-economic agenda during his first State of the Nation Address (SONA). In relation to this, he issued Executive Order No. 12 to urgently attain zero unmet need for modern family planning as one of the legacies of the Philippine Health Agenda.
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National Program on Population and Family Planning to be re-launched in Albay, Bicol
President Rodrigo Duterte has approved the National Program on Population and Family Planning or NPPFP.
Programs and policies on family planning have been reassessed overtime in different administrations— from a strong emphasis on population growth to a focus on the health and wellbeing of women and couples. NPPFP’s goal, with the initiatives of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), Department of Health (DOH) and the Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM), are tasked to harmonize these contexts and create a sustained commitment towards a holistic national development, influencing health, education and economic outcomes.
POPCOM and DILG towards localized implementation of National Program on Population and Family Planning
Local Governance and Family Planning. Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM) Usec. Juan Antonio A. Perez III meets with the Department Interior and Local Governance (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año for a responsive and localized implementation of the National Program on Population and Family Planning (NPPFP). With the President Rodrigo Duterte’s approval of the strengthened NPPFP, POPCOM ensures that local government units are at the forefront of the program for couples and individuals’ need for Family Planning.
Women’s Month in 2019 Highlights Health Improvement and Poverty Reduction: Programs on Population and Family Planning to benefit over 11 million Filipinos launched
President Rodrigo Duterte and the entire Cabinet agreed last Monday, March 4, that it is time to get serious on reproductive health and family planning, auspiciously as the country celebrates Women’s Month.
Not since the administration of Fidel Ramos (1992-1998) has the National Program Family Planning had such prominence. National Economic and Development Authority Secretary (NEDA) Ernesto Pernia, the Chair of the Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM), got the President’s consent for POPCOM and the Department of Health to intensify and expand the Family Planning (FP) program in the next four years.
NEDA, DOH, and POPCOM sign Joint Memo Circular for National Program on Family Planning for 11.4 Million Filipinos
The intensified implementation of the National Program on Family Planning (NPFP) is set to roll in the succeeding months as National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Secretary Ernesto M. Pernia and Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco T. Duque penned their support with the signing of the Joint Memorandum Circular for NPFP on February 15, 2019 during the POPCOM Board of Commissioners’ meeting in NEDA, Pasig.
The National Program on Family Planning or NPFP will be revitalized to address the challenge of addressing adequately the needs of the growing population in the country today. The NPFP was officially launched in 1969 through Executive Order 171, and institutionalized as a national policy then through Republic Act 6365 and Presidential Decree No. 79. Fifty years on, the program will be strengthened to enable more Filipinos to access Family Planning (FP) services and speed up impact to social and economic development in a wider scale.
