Key Result Area 2 Family Planning Overview The National Family Planning Program is one of the priority public health programs of the Department of Health (DOH). dollar spent in family planning, between two and six dollars can be saved in interventions aimed at achieving other development goals”. Studies show that fully addressing people’s unmet need for family planning would reduce the number of maternal and neonatal deaths. But beyond improving health outcomes, family planning likewise plays a big role in economic growth of the country. It does this by bringing the country into a state of “demographic dividend”, which is a period when a country’s young dependent population is smaller than the productive, workingage population20. The World Health Organization (WHO), in its bulletin, expressed that “investments in family planning is a best buy for development”. The United Nations21 has estimated that, for “every Guided by the Universal Health Care (UHC) Act, the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health (RPRH) Law, and the FOURmula One Plus Strategy, the Program undertook a paradigm shift to support the reproductive health needs of all women of reproductive age rather than just focusing on married women. This means that adolescents and sexually active unmarried women are now included in the investments of the government for family planning. Considering the shift of client focus, the program re-calibrated its modern contraceptive prevalence rate (mCPR) target in the National Objectives for Health (NOH). From 65 percent (married women), the target has been adjusted to 30 percent (all women) by year 2022, taking into account the mCPR historical trend over the years, its growth trajectory, and the demand for family planning services. 20 Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2014;92:548548A. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.14.142893. Last accessed 21 May 2020. 21 What would it take to accelerate fertility decline in the least developed countries? New York (NY): United Nations Population Division; 2009. Available from: http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/ UNPD_policybriefs/UNPD_policy_brief1.pdf. Last accessed May 21, 2020. Status,Trends, and Accomplishments The 2017 National Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) showed that the country’s modern contraceptive prevalence rate (mCPR) is at 24.9 percent. For the Philippines to reach its NOH target in 2022, at least one percentage-point annual increase, or approximately 250,000 to 300,000 new acceptors of modern FP methods are needed. It is important to note that the average mCPR growth (among all women) in a series of previous demographic health surveys was only 0.4 percent. This means that to improve mCPR by one percent yearly, we triple our efforts in responding to unmet needs of clients through strategic and consistent provision of FP services. The Field Health Service Information System (FHSIS) of the DOH reported that 7,753,528 women of reproductive age (WRA) used modern FP methods in 2019 of which 338,674 were new acceptors. However, this only reflects FP figures from public service delivery points and does not include FP use outside of the Program. Expansion of FHSIS coverage, to include other health service delivery points, along with other 49 49 2019 2019Annual Annual Report Report Responsible Responsible Parenthood Parenthood and and Reproductive Reproductive Health HealthAct Act of of 2012 2012