The Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM) is the official agency in charge of family planning and reproductive health in The Philippines. Established in 1970, POPCOM has a mandate of “being the technical and information resource agency in population management” in The Philippines. To fulfill this mandate, POPCOM’s management acknowledged that the agency needed a systematic and organized approach for its knowledge base on population and development, including reproductive health, gender, and population, health, and environment (PHE).
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