The Family Welfare Program (FWP) seeks to introduce the concept of promoting the welfare of workers and their families as a key to workplace productivity and improved worker-management relations. It is an advocacy program that draws corporate support in promoting workers’ quality of life by adopting a family-centered approach in the workplace.
The FWP advocates for the integration of the 10 dimensions which also serve as a guide in implementing the program:
- Reproductive Health and Responsible Parenthood
- Education/Gender Equality
- Spirituality or Value Formation
- Income Generation/Livelihood/Cooperative
- Medical Health Care
- Nutrition
- Environment Protection, hygiene and Sanitation
- Sports and Leisure
- Housing
- Transportation
Program Objectives:
FWP aims to:
- Promote plant-level initiatives to contribute to the goals of the Philippine Population Management Program (PPMP)
- Instill family planning/family welfare consciousness among labor and management as a key in promoting workplace productivity and improved worker-management relations
- Establish the family welfare component as a major issue of concern and action of the Family Welfare Committee