CEDAW/C/PHL/Q/7-8/Add.1 Table 10 POEA Report on OFWs, 2014 2015 a 2014 Type of Workers Male Female Total Male Female Total Land based – New Hires 193 734 (40.3%) 286 598 (59.6%) 480 332 161 408 (39.5%) 246 817 (60.5%) 408 225 Land based – Rehires 369 502 (42.9%) 490 993 (57.1%) 860 495 246 094 (51.8%) 228 604 (48.2%) 474 698 Sea based 388 216 (96.9%) 12 349 (3.08%) 400 565 239 831 (96.85%) 7 803 (3.15%) 247 634 951 452 (54.6%) 789 940 (45.4%) 1 741 392 647 333 (57.3%) 483 224 (42.7%) 1 130 557 Total No. of Migrant Workers a 2015 Deployment Data-Preliminary Source: POEA Results of the (reported) steps taken to increase employment, support women ’s entrepreneurship and improve social safety nets and social protection with a view to address the root causes of trafficking and migration, and whether regular monitoring and assessment of the abovementioned is carried out 13.8 The following reflect the results of DOLE employment and livelihood assistance programs undertaken: • 493,742 for poor but deserving students, 42.5% of whom were women, from 2010-2013, under its Special Program for the Employment of Students • 167,569 recipients of income earning support for their education • 3,705 individual and group OFW-beneficiaries of its Balik Pinay! Balik Hanapbuhay! Project, with support worth P38.9 million • 3,001 OFW returnees and families benefited from their livelihood assistance, including 495 women provided skills training on entrepreneurs hip • support to 763 displaced OFWs seeking domestic or overseas employment, and 12,143 OFWs trained on entrepreneurship by the National Reintegration Centre for OFWs (NRCO) of DOLE 13.9 The Pantawid Pamilya household beneficiaries as of January 2016 has reached 4.4 million. Measures taken to address the minimum age limit for women seeking employment outside the country 13.10 POEA issued a directive in 2007 setting the minimum age for women seeking household service work overseas at 23 years old. For other types of work, the minimum age is 18. 16-06662 21/33