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This strategy aims to promote and enhance the capacities of couples and individuals to achieve their wellbeing and aspiration as a family by enabling them to achieve their fertility goals (i.e., timing, spacing and number of children) within the demands of responsible parenthood and informed choice.
This strategy aims to enable adolescents to prevent early pregnancies to increase their chance and capacity to achieve their potentials and aspirations. It likewise involves initiatives that aim to capacitate parents, teachers and adults to effectively guide young people in making informed decisions about their sexuality and personal development.
As part of the life-cycle approach, this strategy supports the formation and development of human resources to enhance their capacity to be employed or earn income, save and invest for the future. This also aims to support the creation of an enabling environment for active and healthy ageing given the steady increase of older persons. These actions are integrated as the promotion of labor force empowerment will be critical in ensuring that today’s human resource will have a secured socioeconomic life as they go through old age.
Aside from various needs across age groups, there is a need to identify and address the specific concerns of the marginalized and underserved segment of population including the persons with disabilities, indigenous people, urban and rural poor, older persons and those belonging to the informal economy. It shall endeavor to improve the program and policy environment for these special segments of population to ensure their wellbeing.
This strategy is hinged upon the recognition of the significant impact of population on sectoral development. Given the increasing working age population and lesser proportion of young dependents, the opportunity for demographic dividend in the county has become more viable. As such, POPDEV integrated approach shall be pursued to mobilize relevant sectors such as health, employment, education and other relevant agencies to facilitate development and employment of human resources towards greater economic productivity. Moreover, this approach shall act on the integration of population-related strategies in various sectoral initiatives (e.g., environment, climate change, food security and agricultural development, etc.) to facilitate more efficiently the attainment of sectoral goals and objectives.
This strategy emphasizes the role of regional and local government units in pursuing population and development initiates within the areas. It shall enable regional and local institutions to plan, implement and evaluate initiatives that address their regional and local population issues to pursue their development agenda. It specifically ensures that population and development integrated issues and strategies are explicitly considered and included in regional and local development plans and strategies particularly within the context of full devolution. Moreover, it shall guarantee the development and implementation of intersectoral POPDEV initiatives to pursue more integrated development (e.g., Population, Health, Environment and Development integration).
The country’s demographic situation has become increasingly connected with the global demographic dynamics. Global ageing, for example, has created demands for care and health services from less developed economies which facilitated the movement of human resources to ageing countries providing serious implications on the health and social systems of migrant-sending countries such as the Philippines. Within this context, this strategy seeks to improve the country’s capacity to formulate and implement POPDEV strategies through effective knowledge-sharing and collaborative arrangements with relevant countries. It also seeks to foster bilateral and multilateral partnerships in pursuing relevant POPDEV strategies.
This strategy intends to improve the body of knowledge and sources of information on the interrelationships of population and development variables and concepts to support evidence-based plan, program and policy formulation and implementation. The conduct of POPDEV research and establishment, analysis and utilization of relevant databases and information will characterize this approach.