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POPCOM Caraga, LGUs target livelihood programs for women, children
Regional News with POPCOM regional office providing supervisory and monetary assistance.
POPCOM-Caraga continues to provide technical and logistical support to LGUs in making demand generation and service delivery, particularly among women with unmet needs on modern family planning from poor households and communities.
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This forms part of the continuing effort to intensify the implementation of the Philippine Population Management Program (PPMP) and the National Program on Family Planning (NPPFP), POPCOM will mobilize Local Government Units (LGUs) by operationalizing its major program thrusts at the grassroots.
This new scheme covers POPCOM’s thrusts from 2020 to 2022. It is set to roll out in the succeeding meetings and conferences that will involve its stakeholders. (POPCOM Caraga/PIA Caraga) POPCOM Caraga, LGUs target livelihood programs for women, children
BUTUAN CITY - Per directive of the Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM), population officers and workers of the provinces, cities, and municipalities in Caraga region are to concentrate all their efforts and resources on bettering the lives of women, children, and adolescents.
The major transition is expected to contribute to POPCOM’s Philippine Population Management Program (PPMP) targets that involve enabling couples and individuals to plan their number of children in the context of responsible parenthood; preventing early and repeated pregnancy among adolescents; and enabling sectors, regional and local government agencies to integrate population factors and dynamics in development interventions. Carrying over the programs under Responsible Parenthood and Family Planning (RP-FP), Adolescent Health and Development (AHD), and Population and Development (POPDEV), the integration entails that local population offices in the region will administer programs and activities with POPCOM regional office providing supervisory and monetary assistance. In addition, the agency continues to work on operationalizing its major February 1-7, 2020 Caraga Infocus 14
