Overview/Background

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 its implemention.

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, and Establish the family welfare component as a major issue of concern and action of the Family Welfare Committee.

Legal Bases:

• Department Order No. 56-03 series of 2013: Rationalizing the Implementation of Family Welfare Program (FWP)
• Women Workers Welfare Advocacy Program
• RA 10028: An Act Expanding The Promotion Of Breastfeeding, Amending For The Purpose Republic Act No. 7600, Otherwise Known As “An Act Providing Incentives To All Government And Private Health Institutions With Rooming-in And Breastfeeding Practices And For Other Purposes”
• Report on the Implementetion of RA 10028 Specifically on the Establishment of Lactation Stations in the Workplace
• Department Advisory No. 3 series of 2009: Intensifying Implementation of the Family Welfare Program through Provision of Family Health Program Services
• Checklist of Priority Activities Related to Family Welfare Program (FWP) Implementation