TY  - GEN
AU  - Ragas, Bruce N.
AU  - Reyes, Celia M. (Chairperson)
AU  - Oquina, Jose Luis M. (Member)
AU  - Nacionales, Lourdes P. (Member)
AU  - Caparros, Nanette C. (Member)
TI  - Institutionalizing the appointment/designation of the population officers in all and every local government units
KW  - Local government
KW  - Philippines
KW  - Population officers
KW  - Central Visayas
KW  - Population
N1  - Public Management Development Program
N2  - This policy paper presents the cause of the existing gap between the national level program of the Philippine Population Management Program (PPMP) or the population program, the flagship program of the Commission on Population (POPCOM), an attached agency of the Department of Health (DOH), and its grounding and implementation at the local level particularly at the Local Government Units (LGUs), specifically at the provincial, city, and municipal level in Central Visayas.  It is to be understood that even if we have a national program on population management this does not necessarily mean that the program is aggressively and sustainability pursued at the LGU level, especially so that a number of the LGUs, particularly in Central Visayas and also very much reflective in the situation all over the country, do not perceived the population program with the needed importance, relevance, and urgency. This is the reason why a number of LGUs do not have a Population Officer in their respective locality, much even less even a designated one.  This is even compounded with the fact that a national law at that which is the Republic Act Number 7160 contains a provision making the position of Population Officers an optional one at the LGU level very much dependent on the discretion and judgement of its Local Chief Executive (LCE).  Along with this gap is the presentation of the possible solution through advocacy work among the LCEs to appoint or, at the very least, designate a Local Population Officer, that would serve as the focal person to oversee and direct matters that concerns the implementation of the population related programs such as Responsible Parenthood-Family Planning (RP-FP), Adolescent Health and Youth Development (AHYD), and the Population and Development (PopDev) program at their level of governance. With this direction of advocacy work is the effort of changing the outlook and the frame of mind of the LCEs on the value of population program vis-a-vis in their pursuit of local development to uplift the living condition and quality of life of their constituents within their own jurisdiction since the element population should be considered as a vital factor in the planning and implementation of any kind of development.  Lastly, this paper would also present the benefits for the LGU to have, at the very least, a designated Local Population Officer, who is he legally mandated person to implement the PPMP at the local level
UR  - https://library.dap.edu.ph/cgi-bin/koha/opac-retrieve-file.pl?id=7c2f221ba52b87be3372d8483873f8c8
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