● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● (provided free of charge when necessary); culturally acceptable to them; and staffed with trained medical personnel. Protect rural girls’ and women’s right to education and promote rural women’s access to technical knowledge on food harvesting techniques, preservation, storage, processing, packaging, marketing and entrepreneurship. Fully incorporate the right to decent conditions of work and the principle of equal pay for work of equal value in their legal and policy frameworks, paying special attention to the situation and labour force representation of rural women. Ensure the active, free, effective, meaningful and informed participation of rural women in political and public life, and at all levels of decision-making. Take all necessary measures, including TSMs, to achieve rural women’s substantive equality in relation to land and natural resources, and should design and implement a comprehensive strategy to address discriminatory stereotypes, attitudes and practices which impede their rights to land and natural resources. Implement agricultural policies which support rural women farmers, recognize and protect the natural commons, promote organic farming and protect rural women from harmful pesticides and fertilizers. They should ensure that rural women have effective access to agricultural resources, including high quality seeds, tools, knowledge and information, as well as equipment and resources for organic farming. Ensure the realization of the right to food and nutrition of rural women within the framework of food sovereignty and that they have the authority to manage and control their natural resources. Promote transition to formal financial services and ensure rural women’s access to credit, loans, matrimonial savings, insurance and domestic payment services, on the basis of equality with rural men, as well as promote their economic, financial and business skills. Prioritize rural women’s equal rights to land when undertaking land and agrarian reforms and consider it as a specific and central objective of land reform. Address housing as part of overall rural development and ensure that measures are developed in consultation with rural women. Ensure that rural women have access to essential services and public goods, including: o Sufficient, safe, acceptable and physically accessible and affordable water for personal and domestic uses, as well as for agriculture/irrigation; o Adequate sanitation and hygiene, enabling women and girls to practice menstrual hygiene and access sanitary pads; and o Sustainable and renewable sources of energy, extending on-grid services to rural areas and developing solar energy and other sustainable energy sources with low-cost technology. Analyze the gender-differentiated demands for transport services in rural areas; ensure that transportation sector policies and programmes reflect the mobility needs of rural women; and provide them with safe, affordable and accessible means of transport. Should collect, analyse, use and disseminate data on the situation of rural women, disaggregated by sex, age, geographical location, disability, socio-economic, minority or other status. Such data, including on SDG indicators, should be used to inform and design measures, including TSMs, aimed at achieving substantive equality for rural women in all spheres of life.” Magna Carta of Women - RA 9710 Magna Carta of Women is a law that aims to eliminate discrimination by recognizing, protecting and promoting the rights of Filipino women, especially the most marginalized. The law took effect in August 2009. RA 9710 defines “marginalized” as “the basic, disadvantaged, or vulnerable persons or groups who are mostly living in poverty and have little or no access to land and other resources, basic 9