Official Website of POPCOM Region VIII

POPCOM: Next admin should continue to fuel FPs momentum: RPRH must also be tackled in pre-election debates, candidates’ plans

With about a month to go before the national and local elections, the Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM) strongly advocates for the next administration’s continuity of the country’s family planning program, as more Filipinos in recent years appreciate its concept and embrace its benefits. Responsible parenthood/reproductive health, as well as family planning, have benefitted continue reading : POPCOM: Next admin should continue to fuel FPs momentum: RPRH must also be tackled in pre-election debates, candidates’ plans

PPDP Localization Implementation

POPCOM VIII has offered partnership with the three (3) Provinces in Eastern Visayas ( Southern Leyte, Northern Samar and Eastern Samar), its selected and identified fifth and sixth class municipalities in the implementation of Philippine Population and Development Program-related interventions through policy and plan development, capacity building and provision of technical assistance, research and data continue reading : PPDP Localization Implementation

RPFP in the Workplace for PNP Personnel

Responsible Parenthood and Family Planning has become, for some years now, part of the program of instruction for police entrants in the region undergoing police training. This is to empower the new police officers in making informed choices in planning their future families and maximizing their efforts towards maintaining peace and order. Signing anew a continue reading : RPFP in the Workplace for PNP Personnel

Culminating POPCOM VIII’s 2022 Women’s Month Celebration

As part of the WOMENs MONTH culmination activity. POPCOM 8 conducted a simultaneous event to give importance to the needs of our “kababaihan”. 1. Members of the Malitbog Women’s Association are among those advancing the efforts towards recovery of women and their families in Malitbog after the destruction of Typhoon Odette and in making sure continue reading : Culminating POPCOM VIII’s 2022 Women’s Month Celebration

POPCOM VIII conducts CSE orientation in partnership with DepEd

In 2019, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed a staggering number of births from young mothers with ages ranging from 10-19. In that same year, there are about seven live births to teenage mothers from 10-14 years old every day. These statistical data from the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics of PSA proved that continue reading : POPCOM VIII conducts CSE orientation in partnership with DepEd