Job Announcement: Advocacy and Partnerships Officer
February 1, 2023
PLCPD is looking for an individual who is interested to work full-time as Advocacy and Partnerships Officer (APO).
Experts, advocates express concerns about the ‘unseen crisis of unintended pregnancy’
8 June 2022 – Nearly half of all pregnancies worldwide—or about 121 million—are unintended, prompting experts and advocates from international agencies, governments and civil societies to band together and sound the alarm on what has been widely deemed an “unseen crisis” on a global scale. This was revealed following the release of the 2022 State […]
Committed to working with and among legislative bodies from the national down to the local level, Philippine Legislators' Committee on Population and Development primarily works within the halls of Congress, devoted to developing policy champions and generating viable, responsive, and people-centered public policies on population and human development.
Legislative Agenda
We work with policy makers and other stakeholders toward policy reform and decisive action for a truly inclusive, empowering, and sustainable development specifically on the issues of children's rights, women and girls' rights, tobacco control and rural development.
Recent Updates
Call for Proposals: Event Management Firm to Organize the RH Law 10th Year Anniversary Event
November 15, 2022
Deadline for submission of applications: 30 November 2022 The Philippine Legislators’ Committee on Population and Development (PLCPD), with the support of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), is looking for a firm to organize the RH Law 10th Year Anniversary Event. Objectives of the consultancy The Contractor aims to organize and manage the event for […]
LEAVE NO ISF BEHIND: HOUSING RIGHTS ADVOCATES CALL TO SOLVE THE 6.7 MILLION HOUSING BACKLOG
October 28, 2022
In the proposed 2023 budget being deliberated in Senate, the budget for the housing sector went down by 48% – from 7.67 billion in 2022 to 4.029 billion pesos for 2023. The amount is only 4% of the entire 2023 proposed budget. With this significant decrease in the budget for the housing sector, what is the assurance that the Pambansang Pabahay para sa Pilipino program will be implemented successfully and that the government will meet the 6M housing unit target by 2028?
Young Leaders’ Call to Action: Tax Tobacco to the Max!
October 15, 2022
More than 20 delegates of the Young Leaders Program (YLP) committed to pursue the advocacy for higher taxes on tobacco products during the knowledge-building session held on October 1, organized by the Philippine Legislators Committee on Population and Development (PLCPD) and the Child Rights Network (CRN) The session tackled the concept of tobacco taxation as […]