Business Action for Family Planning Access

 

Name of Project: Business Action for Family Planning Access
Status: Project Activities and Timelines: 2017 – 2018

  • Program Management Training
  • Peer Educators Training, March and April 2018
  • Family Planning Competency Based Training-1, March, April and May 2018
  • Training of Company Physicians and Nurses on STI//HIV and AIDS, May 2018
  • Gender-based Violence in the Workplace Training, May 2018
  • Communication Planning, April 2018
  • Workshop on Documenting Good Practices, May 2018
  • Sustainability Planning Workshop-Training, May 2018
  • Baseline Survey
  • Regional Consultation on the Implementation of FWP (All Workers Forum)
  • Regional Employers Consultation (All Employers Forum)
  • Project Launch Booth at the National Conference of Employers, April 2018
  • Company Project Launching , May 2018
  • Development of IEC Materials
  • 1st National Conference on Family Planning, June 2018
Background: The Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) has been engaged by the United Nation Population Fund (UNFPA) to undertake the supervision, provision and support to the development of technical capacities of engaged companies to provide their employees updated and accurate family planning (FP) information, counselling, access to FP commodities through their company clinic, if available, or through a referral mechanism to FP facilities.
Objectives:
  • The project aims to encourage the private sector to develop actionable commitments that seek to strengthen their engagement in family planning, either as workplace, community-based or as core business.
    • Provide an oversight role by developing and implementing a module on FP Policy Development among the engaged companies;
    • Develop and implement an FP Training the Trainers (TTT) Module among the engaged companies; and
    • Develop information and campaign materials for their employees and clients.
Contact: Name: Shiela Marie Ramos

Designation: CSR Specialist

Mobile No.: (+632) 896 5006 loc. 106

E-mail Address: [email protected]

 

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August 8, 2018

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Edgardo Lacson

Chairman of the Board

Edgardo G. Lacson is currently the Chairman of the Board of the Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP), and Director of the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE). He was formerly President and Honorary Chairman of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI).  He was the President of ECOP from 2010 to 2016. Ed Lacson also serves as the President of various business firms, including MIS Maritime Corporation, Safe Seas Shipping Agency, Marine Industrial Supply Corporation, and EML Realty. He serves as Chairman of Metrostore Corporation, MIL Export Philippines, Beacon Environmental Management Services and Primelode, among others.

He is likewise Trustee of both the De La Salle Canlubang, Inc. and Philippine Petroleum Sea Transport Association (PHILPESTA), Managing Director of Link Edge, and a member of the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP), Philippine Interisland Shipping Association (PISA), and Makati Business Development Council (MBDC).

An alumnus of then De La Salle College and now De La Salle University where he earned his degree in Bachelor of Science in Commerce (BSC) Major in Accounting, Ed Lacson indeed through the years has expanded his horizons.

Edgardo Lacson serves as Honorary Chairman at PCCI. His previous business affiliations include the Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC), Marine Chemical Corporation, VLK Traders Philippines, Inc., and Esso Standard Eastern.