4 months, IUD for 18 months, and implants for 26 months. The seeming oversupply of implants can be attributed to the current low AMC. The AMC of implants was heavily influenced by the restriction posed by the SC TRO which prohibited the administration of Implants from June 2015 to November 2017. Warehousing and distribution DOH and POPCOM agreed to utilize POPCOM’s warehouses and staffing for storing and distributing FP commodities from the regional to the rural health unit level. While the DOH will be procuring all FP commodities for the country, POPCOM will take part in product selection and quantification with the DOH and will conduct the last mile delivery of FP commodities, including outreach. POPCOM allocated a total of Php 21.26 million for the repair and renovation of five regional warehouse hubs located in Region V, VI, IX, XI, and XII. It is currently maintaining a central warehouse located at the POPCOM Central Office and managed by a pharmacist/warehouse manager with two staff, a logistics management officer and a utility worker. POPCOM also designated an acting supply chain manager who is overseeing the supply chain management. POPCOM distributed a total of 10,000 PSI rods to regional offices and156,180 PSI rods to CHDs, including 880,199 copies of mother and baby books. D. Governance and Systems Capacity Buiding on Supply Chain Management. DOH and POPCOM, with technical assistance from USAID’s Medicines, Technologies, and Pharmaceutical Services (MTaPS) Project, participated in several initiatives related to capacity building on supply chain management. Specifically, a National Quantification for TB and FP commodities was conducted which paved the way for the drafting of the Procurement Supply Chain Management (PSCM) National Strategic Plan. Once approved, the Philippines will be one of a few countries to have fully developed a National Strategic Plan that would guide the optimization of all PSCM components at different levels of the supply chain. USAID MTaPS also helped establish a PSCM Team (Bureau) under the leadership of an undersecretary. USAID MTaPs provided capacity building and organizational development support to the PSCM Team to take on full stewardship of the PSCM cycle including product selection, quantification, procurement, warehousing, distribution, among others. The PSCM Team is now fully functional with approval of 32 additional staff for 2020, and another 37 staff for 2021 DOH and POPCOM also held an FP Logistics Technical Working Group (TWG) meeting and designed an FP commodity management system based on the capacity and mandates of DOH and POPCOM. Capacity Building on Responsible Parenthood and Family Planning. Together with the DOH and LGUs, POPCOM has been promoting modern Natural Family Planning (NFP) methods. These methods of family planning do not require drugs or devices. Capacity building activities initiated by POPCOM in 2019, included Orientation on Natural Family Planning/Fertility-Based Awareness Methods and Training of Trainers on NFP. On July 4, 2019, POPCOM in collaboration with the Responsible Parenthood-All Natural Family Planning Network, Inc. met with Bishops of different denominations on Natural Family Planning (NFP) at the Pope Pius XII Center, United Nations Avenue, Manila. With the support of church leaders for NFP, the method may have a wider space for promotion, especially among church members who prefer to use the natural methods of FP. Other capacity building activities conducted in 2019 include: 1) Orientation on Enhanced RPFP Manual and 2019 RPFP Guidelines to 553 community health worker, volunteers, BHWs, BNS, barangay population and development officers, as well as women leaders in five regions (Region IV-A, V, VII, IX and NCR) ; 3) Retooling Workshops on RPFP to 5,946 barangay population volunteers and workers on RPFP in Regions I, IV-A, IV-B, V, X, CAR and NCR; and 4) Training of Trainers were provided to 438 PMOC Team Members. 59 2019 Annual Report Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012