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Section 1
Prevention of Teenage Pregnancies a National Priority
Section 1.
Prevention of Teenage Pregnancies a National Priority.
—The implementation of measures to address the root causes of the rising number of adolescent pregnancies is hereby adopted as a National Priority. To this end, the State shall mobilize existing coordinative and legal mechanisms related to the prevention of adolescent pregnancies, and to strengthen the adolescents' capacity to make autonomous and informed decisions about their reproductive and sexual health by ensuring access to comprehensive sexuality education and reproductive health and rights services.
Section 2
Interventions for the Prevention of Adolescent Pregnancies
Section 2.
Interventions for the Prevention of Adolescent Pregnancies.
—Consistent with their respective mandates, subject to coordination of efforts through the HDPR Cabinet Cluster, all government agencies and instrumentalities shall identify and implement as far as practicable interventions related to the prevention of adolescent pregnancies, such as comprehensive sexuality education, education and employment opportunities for young people, and health promotion through media and communications. Agencies shall closely monitor the implementation of interventions in their regional and field offices and units.
In the implementation of the identified programs and interventions, all concerned agencies and instrumentalities shall maximize the use of digital and online platforms to reach adolescents and young people, and raise awareness on the the protection and promotion of reproductive health and rights.
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These agencies and instrumentalities shall exert all efforts to reach especially those in geographically isolated and depressed areas such as island municipalities, upland communities, hard-to-reach areas, and conflict-affected areas by empowering their regional and/or field offices and strengthening coordinative mechanisms with local government units, civil society organizations, and other stakeholders.
Section 3
Youth and Community Mobilization
Section 3.
Youth and Community Mobilization.
—SKs are encouraged to develop interventions to arrest and prevent all known causes of adolescent pregnancies, and support adolescent mothers, which shall be reflected in the Local Youth Development Plan (LYDP) and in the Annual Investment Program (AIP) of their respective localities.
SKs shall endeavor to identity and implement viable programs, activities and projects and allocate a portion of their budget, as necessary, towards the following objectives;
(i) educating the youth on adolescent sexual and reproductive health, even in a non-formal education setting, and normalize respectful dialogue—on—sexual and reproductive health matters;
(ii) providing youth-friendly and rights-based measures to support pregnant girls and young mothers to continue and complete their education;
(iii) formulating retention strategies and life skills programs for pregnant girls and young mothers, which may include vocational training opportunities;
(iv) following up on pregnant girls or young mothers who have dropped out of school, through targeted outreach and support programs; and
(v) ensuring the functionality of Barangay Anti-Violence Against Women and their Children desks.
All members of the HDPR Cabinet Cluster, particularly the Department of Social Welfare and Development, Department of the Interior and Local Government, Department of Education, Department of Health, Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, National Economic and Development Authority, as well as the NYC, Philippine Commission on Women and Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM), and other relevant government agencies, shall extend all assistance necessary to enable SKs to implement identified programs, activities and projects within their localities.
Section 4
Role of the NYC
Section 4.
Role of the NYC.
—The NYC shall establish a forum for continuing dialogue between the government and the youth sector on the proper planning and evaluation of policies, programs and projects affecting the youth, convening for the purpose representatives of all youth organizations and institutions, including SKs from barangay, municipal, city, provincial and national levels.
Section 5
Role of the POPCOM
Section 5.
Role of the POPCOM.
—The POPCOM shall continue to educate leaders, parents, and other community members about evidence-based strategies to reduce, if not eliminate, adolescent pregnancy, and improve adolescent reproductive health.
The POPCOM shall consolidate into a Comprehensive Action Plan Towards the Prevention of Adolescent Pregnancies the different initiatives of all government agencies and institutions. For this purpose, it may call upon any department, bureau, office, agency or instrumentality of the government for assistance. The POPCOM shall submit such Plan to the HDPR Cabinet Cluster.
Section 6
Section 6.
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Interventions for the Prevention of Adolescent Pregnancies as—Budget Priority.
—The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) shall ensure that the annual National Expenditure Program shall include initiatives for the prevention of adolescent pregnancies in the annual Budget Priorities Framework and its corresponding budget guidelines. The DBM shall likewise support Program Convergence Budgeting for these initiatives to ensure harmonized interventions and investment programming.
Section 7
Section 7.
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Monitoring.
—To ensure a whole-of-government approach in attaining the demographic dividend, the HDPR Cabinet Cluster shall provide overall coordination among all government agencies and instrumentalities, monitor the implementation of relevant interventions at all levels, and ensure that such strategies are informed and supported by, among others, international best practices and evidence-based population data and analyses.
Within sixty (60) days from the issuance of this Order, the HDPR Cabinet Cluster shall report to the Office of the President (OP) the mechanisms effected to implement this Order, with appropriate recommendations. Thereafter, the HDPR Cluster shall submit annual reports to the OP on the implementation of this Order.
Section—8.
Funding.
—Subject to the provisions of the Annual General Appropriations Act and RA No. 10354, the amount necessary to implement this Order shall be charged against the allocation for Gender and Development in the respective budgets of concerned agencies, and as may be warranted, against sources to be identified by the DBM as may be necessary.
Section 9
Separability
Section 9.
Separability.
—If any provision of this Order is declared invalid or unconstitutional, the other provisions not affected thereby shall remain valid and subsisting.
Section 10
Repeal
Section 10.
Repeal.
—All issuances, rules and regulations contrary to or inconsistent with this Order are hereby repealed, modified or amended accordingly.
Section—11.
Effectivity.
—This Order shall take effect immediately upon its complete publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.
DONE,
—in the City of Manila, this 25th day of June , in the year of our Lord, Two Thousand and Twenty-One.
(SGD.)—
RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE
By the President:
(SGD.)—
SALVADOR C. MEDIALDEA
Executive Secretary