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PESCO-Dev: Sustainable Health Project

SC partnered with the Municipality of Concepcion on the "PESCO-Dev Project" to improve family health and address population growth and environmental degradation. The project provided family planning services and educated people on links between population, environment and quality of life. To ensure sustainability, SC developed partnerships with Local Government Units rather than competing with them, since LGUs are mandated to provide population and environmental programs. SC selected Concepcion due to reproductive health and environmental challenges where they could test an integrated model of these activities, hoping to broaden support for reproductive health and coastal management.

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PESCO-Dev: Sustainable Health Project

SC partnered with the Municipality of Concepcion on the "PESCO-Dev Project" to improve family health and address population growth and environmental degradation. The project provided family planning services and educated people on links between population, environment and quality of life. To ensure sustainability, SC developed partnerships with Local Government Units rather than competing with them, since LGUs are mandated to provide population and environmental programs. SC selected Concepcion due to reproductive health and environmental challenges where they could test an integrated model of these activities, hoping to broaden support for reproductive health and coastal management.

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What activities did sc initiate in partnership with the Municipality of


Concepcion to ensure the project sustainability?

The “People and Environment Co-Existence Developmentr Project” or the


“PESCO-Dev the aim of this project was to improve the health of families and
communities through measures that address population growth and the
degradation of coastal resources. The main premise of the project was that
couples who have an unmet need for family planning are likely to take action
to address their needs if reproductive health services are available to them
and if they understand the links between a growing population, the local
environment, and the quality of life. In order to accomplish the Save the
Children (SC) objectives, they decided to develop partnership with the local
government units. The Save the Children (SC) wanted to enhance the
capacity of the Local Government Units (LGUs) rather than duplicate their
services or even compete with them. Because, Since the population and
environmental programs are mandated functions transferred to LGUs from the
national government, the LGUs are better able to sustain and mainstream a
project that other service providers. The Save the Children Staffs searched for
LGUs to find a setting that both presented reproductive health and
environmental challenges and where the SC could test approaches that
integrate PHE activities. The Staff felt the integrated model would broaden
acceptance for reproductive health and coastal resource management (CRM)
activities. The staff believed that achieving reproductive health and
environment outcomes could help Mayor Banias achieve his goal of
eradicating poverty in Concepcion.

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