Iloilo City population awards national finalist

Photo By Iloilo City Mayor's Office
Photo By Iloilo City Mayor's Office

ILOILO City Population Office (CPO) will represent Western Visayas at the National Kaunlarang Pantao Award 2022 on parenting and family planning category set in Manila in May 2022.

“We are very happy and proud that for the past five years the City Population Office has been number one in Region 6 (Western Visayas),” said City Population Officer Mary Ann Ramos.

CPO has been assessed as top performer in the region and exceeded their annual plans and targets for the promotion of population and development programs.

They are promoting three population and development programs: responsible parenthood and family planning; adolescent and health Development; and population integration.

“For teenage pregnancy alone, based on Region 6 data, we managed to register 3.8 percent compared to the acceptable level of four percent national benchmark,” Ramos said.

“There are still cases but at least manageable. Mayor Jerry Treñas is very concerned about it so we have this challenge initiative program to address the rising teenage pregnancy cases,” she added. (PR)

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