ANTIQUE – The Antique Provincial Population Office (PPO) was recognized as Most Outstanding Population Office in Western Visayas during the 2022 Philippine Population and Development Program Awards for Western Visayas last week.
Antique PPO implemented three population programs in 2022: Demand Generation on Responsible Parenthood-Family Planning (RP-FP) Program, New Family Planning Acceptors generated on RP-FP Program (Province and Highly Urbanized City Category), and Adolescents Reach on Adolescent Health and Development Program.
The awards were received by Antique PPO head Primo Ogatis, Jr. and Gov. Rhodora J. Cadiao.
Cadiao said Antique PPO is now at the center of population programs, recalling the time when the province was one of the poorest in the Philippines with high cases of teenage pregnancy and malnutrition.
Cadiao credited the success of Antique PPO to the joint efforts in empowering the Barangay Service Point Officers (BSPO) and by increasing their yearly incentives from P600 to P12,000.
Antique PPO also garnered the following awards:
* Top1 – New Acceptors Generated
* for achieving 220 percent of New Family Planning Acceptors
* for achieving 288 percent couples/individuals reached
* Top 1 – reaching 10,316 adolescents. (With a report from PIO LAVEGA/Province of Antique)/PN
