Benjamin D. De Leon this week received a Lifetime Achievement Award in Family Planning and Reproductive Health at the 2022 International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP).
From 1992 to 1998, Mr. De Leon held the rank of undersecretary while acting as presidential assistant for social development to former President Fidel V. Ramos. Drawing on decades of experience as a champion of family planning, he gave advice on how to advance the cause of reproductive health in the Philippines.
Mr. Rimon said: “Lifetime Achievement Award honorees are distinctive in that they have provided exemplary leadership throughout a significant portion of their professional lives and become known as role models as a result of their exceptional accomplishments in increasing access to family planning information, services, and/or supplies.
From 1980 to 1987, he was executive director of the Jakarta-based ASEAN Population Coordination Unit whose responsibility it was to coordinate the ASEAN Population Program. He returned to the Philippines to become Chief of Staff of former Senator Leticia R. Shahani, for whom he helped draft legislation on population, reproductive health, family planning, and gender rights and welfare.
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