QuestionsQuestions (DOLE DEPARTMENT ORDER NO. 56-03)
It cites Article 134 of the Labor Code and its Implementing Rules and Regulations.
The order references the 1995 Beijing Conference on Women, the 1999 International Conference on Population and Development Programme of Action, the Philippine Population Management Program, the Directional Plan for 2002–2004, and the Philippine Plan for Nutrition 1999–2004.
It shifts the program’s focus from promoting family planning to providing family welfare services to workers, guided by ten dimensions.
a) Reproductive Health and Responsible Parenthood; b) Education/Gender Equality; c) Spirituality or Value Formation; d) Income Generation/Livelihood/Cooperative; e) Medical Health Care; f) Nutrition; g) Environmental Protection, Hygiene and Sanitation; h) Sports and Leisure; i) Housing; and j) Transportation.
It is the state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, in all matters relating to the reproductive system and its functions and processes.
Examples include: Family Planning (FP); Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition (MCHN); Prevention and Management of Abortion and its Complications (PMAC); Prevention and Management of Reproductive Tract Infections (RTIs); Education and Counseling on Sexuality and Sexual Health; Breast and Reproductive Tract Cancers and other Gynecological Conditions; Men’s Reproductive Health; Adolescent and Youth Health; Violence Against Women and Children; and Prevention and Treatment of Infertility and Sexual Dysfunction.
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) through the Bureau of Women and Young Workers (BWYW) and the DOLE-Regional Offices.
Establishments employing more than two hundred (200) workers in any locality must form a Family Welfare Committee through assistance of the DOLE-Regional Offices.
The FWC is responsible for planning, organizing, and implementing an in-plant family welfare program focusing on the ten dimensions; employers are urged to support and provide necessary resources for capability building and related activities.
They are encouraged to establish/organize a Family Welfare Committee and implement a family welfare program.
Labor and management leaders; members of Family Welfare Committees; plant clinic staff (nurses, midwives, doctors); and peer educators.
It must provide technical supervision and support to attain program targets/objectives, and it must issue a checklist of existing programs, projects, and activities related to FWP implementation.
They must: (1) coordinate with regional development councils, regional population coordinating councils, or similar bodies for linkages/convergence; (2) ensure enforcement of Article 134 of the Labor Code, as amended, and strengthen advocacy for FWP implementation; and (3) provide information and render support services to the Regional Population Coordinating Council or similar regional focal point for orchestrating and monitoring national population policy implementation.
Regional Offices must use the annual five percent (5%) Gender and Development budget allocation to implement the FWP.
The Working Youth Center Program budget allocation relative to activities concerning adolescent and youth health.
Fifteen (15) days after its publication in two (2) newspapers of general circulation.