POP QUIZ REVIEWER

1. What presidential degree was signed directing public and private sectors to undertake a
National Family Planning Program which respects the religious beliefs and values of Individuals
in 1972?
Answer: Presidential Decree 79
2. When did President Gloria M. Arroyo issue guidelines and directive for the DOH, POPCOM and
local government units to take full charge of the implementation of the Responsible Parenthood
and Family Planning Program?
Answer: October 10, 2006
3. What executive order attached POPCOM to the Department of Social Welfare and Development
(DSWD) as the planning and coordinating agency in 1986?
Answer: Executive Order 123
4. Who is the president of the Philippines who issued by the POPCOM Board which states: “the
ultimate goal of the Population Program is the improvement of the quality of human life in a just
and humane society.. The achievement of this goal requires a recognition of the close
interrelationships among population, resources and environmental factors?
Answer: Corazon C. Aquino
5. What issued in 1990 planning POPCOM under the Office of the President in order to facilitate
coordination of policies and programs relative to population?
Answer: Executive Order No. 408
6. What executive order issued making POPCOM an attached agency of the National Economic and
Development Authority?
Answer: Executive Order No. 476
7. Who is the president of the Philippines reformulated the Philippine Population Management
Program with responsible Parenthood as its lynchpin in 1999?
Answer: Joseph E. Estrada
8. When did president Gloria M. Arroyo issue executive order no. 188 attaching POPCOM to the
Department of Health?
Answer: March 24, 2003
9. The year when the Philippine Population Program was officially launched through the executive
order no. 233. The commission on Population (POPCOM) was mandated to serve as the central
coordinating and policy making body of the government in the field of population?
Answer: 1970
10. It is known as the Population Act of the Philippines was enacted into law by congress:
Answer: Republic Act 6365