Food resiliency and alpas covid program that targets households. Like urban aquaphonics. This has a 24 million pesos budget. How many beneficiaries were able to avail? I do not have the exact figures. But they are mostly households. What impact of the pandemic on the sector have you documented? We have no economic study of the effect of COVID-19. Our fisher folks generally went unhampered in fishing. IV. RECOMMENDATIONS To empower the sector, specifically to address invisibility, undervaluation, and under representation of women fisher folks? ● Continue strengthening women, and greater participation of women in the councils in the municipal level that makes decisions and policies. Within 5 years the 73% 27% ratio will not really change as far as capture fishing is concerned. The physiological make-up of men still different from women. Men can endure more the physical stress of capture fishing. ● Women can have greater participation in food processing and decision-making. ● To enhance agency response to the sector: (1) Gender-sensitize the fisheries sector; and (2) Put administrative control - to be granted temporary spatial measure so women can catch up in benefiting from BFAR’s programs, eg., women empowerment programs - women as Bantay-Dagat.