NATIONAL FAMILY PLANNING PROGRAM

Vision

For Filipino women and men achieve their desired family size and fulfill the reproductive health
and rights for all through universal access to quality family planning information and services.

Mission

In line with the Department of Health FOURmula One Plus strategy and Universal Health Care
framework, the National Family Planning Program is committed to provide responsive policy
direction and ensure access of Filipinos to medically safe, legal, non-abortifacient, effective, and
culturally acceptable modern family planning (FP) methods.

Objectives

1. To increase modern Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (mCPR) among all women

from 24.9% in 2017 to 30% by 2022
2. To reduce the unmet need for modern family planning from 10.8% in 2017 to 8%
by 2022

Program Components

Component A: Provision of free FP Commodities that are medically safe, legal, non-
abortifacient, effective and culturally acceptable to all in need of the FP service:

o Forecasting of FP commodity requirements for the country

o Procurement of FP commodities and its ancillary supplies
o Strengthening of the supply chain management in FP and ensuring of adequate
FP supply at the service delivery points

Component B: Demand Generation through Community-based Management Information

System:

o Identification and profiling of current FP users and identification of potential

FP clients and those with unmet need for FP (permanent or temporary methods)
o Mainstreaming FP in the regions with high unmet need for FP
o Development and dissemination of Information, Education Communication
materials
o Advocacy and social mobilization for FP

Component C: Family Planning in Hospitals and other Health Facilities

o Establishment of FP service package in hospitals

o Organization of FP Itinerant team for outreach missions
 o Delivery of FP services by hospitals to the poor communities especially
Geographically Isolated and Disadvantaged Areas (GIDAs):
o Provision of budget support to operations by the itinerant teams including
logistics and medical supplies needed for voluntary surgical sterilization
services
o FP services as part of medical and surgical missions of the hospital
o Partnership with LGU hospitals for the FP outreach missions

Component D: Financial Security in FP

o Strengthening PhilHealth benefit packages for F

o Expansion of PhilHealth coverage to include health centers providing No
Scalpel Vasectomy and FP Itinerant Teams
o Expansion of Philhealth benefit package to include pills, injectables and IUD
o Social Marketing of contraceptives and FP services by the partner NGOs
o National Funding/Subsidy

Partner Institutions

o Local Government Units

o Civil Society Organizations
o Non-Government Organizations
o Private Sector
o Faith-based Organizations
o Development Partners

Policies and Laws

1. Republic Act No. 10354: Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012
(RPRH Law)
2. Executive Order No. 12, s. 2017: Attaining and Sustaining “Zero Unmet Need for Modern
Family Planning” Through the Strict Implementation of the Responsible Parenthood and
Reproductive Health Act, Providing Funds Therefor, and for other Purposes
3. Administrative Order 2017-0005: Guidelines in Achieving Desired Family Size through
Accelerated and Sustained Reduction in Unmet Need for Modern Family Planning
Methods
4. Administrative Order 2016-0005: National Policy on the Minimum Initial Service Package
(MISP) for Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) in Emergencies and Disasters
5. Administrative Order 2017-0002: Guidelines on the Certification of Free Standing Family
Planning Clinics
6. Department Order 2017-0345: Guidelines on the Forecasting, Procurement, Allocation and
Distribution of Modern Family Planning Commodities
7. Administrative Order 2015-0006: Inclusion of Progestin Subdermal Implant as One of the
Modern Methods Recognized by the National Family Planning Program.
8. Administrative Order 2014-0042: Guidelines on the Implementation of Mobile Outreach
Services for Family Planning
 9. Department Memorandum 2015-0384: Establishment of the Family Planning Logistics
Hotline

Strategies, Action Points and Timeline

Apart from the routine means of FP service delivery, the National Family Planning Program also
employs the following main strategies to ensure universal access to FP:

1. FP Outreach Mission – this maximizes opportunities where clients are and FP

services are delivered down to the community level.
2. FP in hospitals – this address missed opportunities where women especially those
who recently gave birth are offered with appropriate FP services.

Intensive Demand generation through house-to-house visits by the community health volunteers,
Family Development Sessions, Usapan sessions, among others

Program Accomplishments/Status

The passage of the RPRH Law in 2012 is considered as a landmark legislation in the country’s
law-making history, and has laid down the legislative foundation in achieving reproductive health
and rights of all Filipinos towards better health outcomes and socioeconomic growth.
The 0-10 Point Socioeconomic Agenda of the current administration, President Rodrigo Duterte,
acknowledged the full implementation of the RPRH Law as an essential policy measure in
achieving the targets set by the Philippines in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 2030
and Ambisyon Natin (Our Ambition) 2040.

As a result, President Duterte issued an Executive Order (EO) No. 12, entitled Attaining and
sustaining “Zero Unmet Need for Modern Family Planning” through the strict implementation of
the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act, providing funds therefor, and for other
purposes in January of 2017. The Order intensifies and accelerates the implementation of critical
actions necessary to address the unmet need of Filipinos for modern family planning (mFP). The
Order also directs all executive agencies to allocate resources and solicits support in this initiative.
The Department of Health (DOH), as the lead agency, issued an operational guideline for the said
Order. The guideline provides direction and strategies to accelerate and sustain reduction in unmet
need for mFP, and eventually attain the Filipinos’ desired family size especially among the poor
and marginalized.

In the first six months of the EO No. 12 implementation, a total of 610,998 women were reached
and identified to have unmet need for mFP, of which 356,460 accepted the FP service. The
succeeding report of the EO No. 12 was incorporated in the annual Responsible Parenthood and
Reproductive Health (RPRH) Accomplishment Report that was submitted in April 2018.

In 2017, the Philippine Development Plan (PDP) 2017-2022 was formally introduced. The PDP is
the country’s medium-term plan geared towards achieving SDG andAmbisyon Natin. The Family
Planning was identified as a pivotal intervention in realizing the country’s demographic dividend.
 One of the major highlights in 2017 is the lifting of the Supreme Court’s Temporary Restraining
Targets

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2013 201

Indicators
mCPR 65% 65% 65% 65% 52% 39.5% 42.1

Please Note: Accomplishments from 2013-2017 are based on FHSIS Report.

Order (TRO) to the DOH and Food and Drug Administration (FDA), particularly the DOH from
utilizing its progestin subdermal implant supplies - Implanon and Implanon NXT, and the FDA
from issuing certificates of product registration of contraceptives. The TRO was lifted on Nov. 10,
2017 when the DOH promulgated the revised Implementing Rules and Regulations of the RPRH
Law, and the FDA re-certified all 51 contraceptive products to be non-abortifacient, including the
subdermal implants - Implanon and Implanon NXT.

Calendar of Activities

Policy, Standards, Guidelines

 Drafting of Training Manuals for Various FP Services
 Drafting of Guidelines for Hospitals as FP Reporting Facilities
Trainings
 TOT on Natural Family Planning
Technical Assistance, Monitoring and Evaluation
 Family Planning Program Implementation Review
Various Materials for Printing/Production (Manuals, MOP, Charts, Tarps., etc.)
RPRH Law IRR
WHO MEC Wheel
GATHER Approach (counseling cue cards)
Statistics
Total Pop WRA Current Users
104,921,600 12,931,587 6,836,647
103,711,044 12,782,386 6,122,042
101,771,950 12,543,393 6,014,458
99,874,261 12,309,503 5,185,974
98,011,951 12,079,973 4,774,629