 ◦ availing services offered both by the government and the private sector; Persons with disabilities remain to be in possession of their dignity and human rights during the pandemic, such that: ◦ no disability-based institutionalization and abandonment is acceptable; ◦ public restrictions must consider persons with disabilities on an equal basis with others; ◦ persons with disabilities in need of health services due to COVID19 cannot be deprioritized on the ground of their disability; and ◦ persons with disabilities and OPDs must be given the opportunity to provide feedback to the government on its response to the pandemic Taking into consideration both gender and disability lens, the following are imperative:      Measures adopted should take into account specific protection needs of women and girls with disability, and other persons with disability with multiple and intersecting vulnerabilities e.g members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer communities (LGBTQI), children and the elderly, indigenous persons, those in humanitarian contexts, urban and rural poor etc.; Recognition of women and girls’ multiple burden during crises, the increased care work and domestic tasks and the need to encourage the equitable sharing of domestic tasks. Responses must be grounded in strong gender analysis, taking into account gendered roles, responsibilities, and dynamics. This includes ensuring that containment and mitigation measures also address the burden of unpaid care work. The importance of updating and ensuring functionality of gender-based and child protection referral mechanisms from the Barangay level to the Courts including provision of legal counselling, psychosocial, and medical services that are accessible to persons and children with disability; Ensure that responses include women's timely access to necessary and comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services and commodities during the crisis and provide menstrual hygiene products; Ensure that interventions take into account protocols for pregnant women, more particularly pregnant women with disability in need of ante and post-natal care, while ensuring mitigation procedures; Rights to adequate standard of living and social protection The aforesaid practical standards, having been distilled from the lived experiences of persons with disabilities themselves, bear persuasive effect in efforts to fully understand and operationalize the normative content of Article 28 of the UNCRPD during the COVID-19 pandemic. Stated otherwise, these standards reflect the clamor of persons with disabilities for the realization of their needs, and ultimately the protection and promotion of their human rights, including Article 28 of the UNCRPD, which provides: 1. States Parties recognize the right of persons with disabilities to an adequate standard of living for themselves and their families, including adequate food, clothing and housing, and to the continuous improvement of living conditions, and shall take appropriate steps to safeguard and promote the realization of this right without discrimination on the basis of disability. 2. States Parties recognize the right of persons with disabilities to social protection and to the enjoyment of that right without discrimination on the basis of disability, and shall take appropriate steps to safeguard and promote the realization of this right, including measures: (a) To ensure equal access by persons with disabilities to clean water services, and to ensure access to appropriate and affordable services, devices and other 7