CEDAW/C/PHI/4 English Page 68 agency units to reorganize their respective focal points - to facilitate the mainstreaming of gender concerns and make them more responsive to recent developments in government policies. A Technical Working Group was created within the Department to formulate a strategic plan for mainstreaming gender concerns through data generation of selected agricultural information and data. Agricultural mainstreaming is further implemented through gender-sensitivity training and other related courses among the agency's top officials, middle management and rank and file employees. 286. The Department of Agrarian Reform has also established women in development focal points at the national down to the municipal levels to ensure the implementation of its plan in that regard. Agencies which reach out to women in rural areas, such as the Office for Muslim Affairs and the Office of the Southern Cultural Communities have likewise created focal points and have trained their staff on gender sensitivity. Implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 287. Part of the policy imperatives that will have an impact on rural women and which was recently approved by the President for implementation by the respective agencies with regard to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action are the following: (a) To adopt and maintain macroeconomic policies, including structural adjustment programmes and development strategies that address the needs and efforts of women to overcome poverty within the framework of sustainable development; (b) To strengthen the access of women to training, economic resources (including land, credit, science and technology, vocational training, information, communication and markets), employment and promotion opportunities. 288. Other measures, supportive policies and mechanisms that have been enacted or established in pursuit of the mainstreaming of rural women's concerns are the following: (a) Republic Act 7884, or the National Dairy Authority, which encourages the participation of women in dairy and dairy-related projects, including diary animal health care, village nutrition schemes, community-based processing and marketing of milk; (b) The Social Reform Agenda, which provides capability-building for productivity skills and livelihood services for women in especially difficult circumstances and information services for family planning, responsible parenthood and reproductive health; (c) The Presidential Council for Countryside Development, which identifies and addresses the problems of economically depressed regions, provinces and areas; and motivates the administrators to focus development efforts on identified potential growth areas to accelerate socio-economic growth. /...