Launched in August 2012, the South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) Program of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Indonesia and Philippine country offices that involves Indonesia’s Badan Kependudukan dan Keluarga Berencana Nasional (BKKBN) or National Family Planning Board and the Philippine Commission on Population and Development (PopCom) has enhanced the family planning (FP) and adolescent reproductive health (ARH) programs in the Autonomous Region in Muslim in Mindanao, now the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) — as a result of some Muslim religious leaders, local chief executives, public health officials, youth leaders and other stakeholders’ exposure to Indonesia’s good practices in these programs. What has the SSTC program contributed to BKKBN and its Indonesian partners?

BKKBN has two areas of interest in its partnership with PopCom: to learn about the Philippines’ good practices in ARH and about FP in our decentralized system of governance. Although the geographic area of SSTC partnership is the BARMM, BKKBN and its partners were brought by PopCom to other regions in the country because the BARMM is not decentralized and its ARH program is not fully developed.

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