As delivered addresses concerns of women in vulnerable situations, such as indigenous and Muslim women, women with disabilities, migrant women, rural women, women in detention and LBTs. In keeping with the Plan’s direction to mainstream women concerns in performance targets, both in local and national levels, agencies have designed their respective gender and development plans, allocating at least 5% of their total budget to the implementation of these plans. The Philippines, through the Education Department, has gradually introduced the integration of gender concepts and application of gender and development (GAD) principles in curriculum development and implementation at various levels. State colleges and universities have also responded to the call for gender sensitivity training in their respective institutions. The State, through a directive from the Commission on Higher Education, has called on all public and private higher educational institutions to implement their gender and development mandates resulting in the incorporation of gender perspective in curricula, research and extension services. All schools have been called upon to comply fully. By setting up Committees on Decorum and Investigation, or we call it CODI, sexual harassment in schools had been curbed. Violence against women are addressed in a whole-of-government approach through the following mechanisms: The Inter-Agency Council on Anti-Violence Against Women and their Children, the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking, and the Inter-Agency Council Against Child Pornography. Page 5 of 16

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