NRCP collaborates with Congress to promote policy-making based on science

Dr. Clarita R. Carlos as one of forum speakers.

The use of science to inform policy got a boost recently when the DOST-National Research Council of the Philippines partnered with the Congress of the Philippines in slating its 2nd Legislative Scientific Forum for Policy Development on November 6-7, 2019 at the House of Representatives in Quezon City.

NRCP, the country’s advisory body on S&T, has been vigorous in promoting evidence-based policy-making so that science will become accessible for decision makers and to ensure that funded researches are producing impacts.

Evidence-based policy employs the use of empirical data and is evaluated using an empirical approach. Developed countries such as the US and UK have been using evidence-based policy making for decades to guide social interventions and spend public funds more effectively. However, the use of evidence-based policy-making is said to be less established in developing countries such as the Philippines in which passing legislations backed by irrefutable data is a big challenge.

Details: Written by Mary Charlotte O. Fresco; Published: 13 November 2019; Hits: 1360

DOST-NRCP project on teenage pregnancy used as inputs to House Bill 4742 (Prevention of Adolescent Pregnancy Act of 2017)

Teenage pregnancy now a national emergency.

The Commission on Population and Development (PopCom) has requested President Rodrigo R. Duterte for the issuance of an executive order declaring teenage pregnancy as a national emergency as incidence rates disturbingly rises.

Teenage pregnancies is now one of the major national problems concerning the children and youth. While adolescent pregnancy rates in most countries are declining, the figures are growing in the Philippines.

According to PopCom Executive Director Juan Antonio Perez III on October 23, teenage pregnancy significantly contributes to economic losses in the country with 33 Billion pesos losses.

In his report, about 1.2 million children are having their own children yearly, with 30,000 young mothers who have experienced repeated pregnancies.

The DOST-NRCP project on teenage pregnancy during disasters

The Department of Science and Technology-National Research Council of the Philippines (DOST-NRCP), had actually collaborated with the PopCom in 2017 through a research project that explored the links and external factors of incidence of teenage pregnancies after Supertyphoon Haiyan/Yolanda and Typhoon Ruby in the case of Eastern Visayas. The study led by Prof. Gloria Luz Nelson, DOST-NRCP member, used the study results in designing programs for teenagers during disasters.

Details: Written by Jenny Leigh A. Daquioag; Published: 13 November 2019; Hits: 3506

DOST-NRCP Luzon Policy Forum

Are we breathing clean air in MM?

This was the question of Dr. Preciosa Corazon Pabroa, a Member of the DOST-National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP) when she presented her study during the National Research and Development Conference in April. To emphasize further the importance of clean air, she added that humans can survive three (3) weeks without food, 3 days without water, but only 3 minutes without air.

Details: Written by Jenny Leigh A. Daquioag; Published: 22 October 2019; Hits: 2744

DOST-NRCP research symposium gives limelight to good microbes and lifelines

Six (6) projects on microbes, clean water and clean energy of the Department of Science and Technology-National Research Council of the Philippines (DOST-NRCP) will be featured in the 3rd Basic Research Symposium (BRS) on October 30, 2019 at the Manila Hotel.