CEDAW/C/PHL/7-8 titling of land, issuance of stewardship contracts, emancipation patents, and certificates of land ownership. 151. The Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Act or IPRA Law of 1997 (RA 8371) provides that “women shall enjoy equal rights and opportunities with men, as regards the social, economic, political and cultural spheres of life. The participation of indigenous women in the decision-making process in all levels, as well as in the development of society, shall be given due respect and recognition. The State shall provide full access to education, maternal and child care, health and nutrition, and housing services to indigenous women. Vocational, technical, professional and other forms of training shall be provided to enable these women to fully participate in all aspects of social life. As far as possible, the State shall ensure that indigenous women have access to all services in their own languages. ” 152. The State Party has been focusing recently on the ARMM, home to predominantly Muslim communities and many indigenous groups. Among all the regions in the Philippines, ARMM has been registering the lowest ratings in the socioeconomic indicators. With the Comprehensive Agreement o n the Bangsamoro in place, the State Party looks forward end the armed conflict and to bringing more development interventions to enable the region to catch up with the rest of the country. A flagship program along this line is the PAMANA ( Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan or Peaceful and Resilient Communities) program, which is the national government’s peace and development framework for empowering conflict-affected areas in the country. Outside of ARMM, the program is implemented in 6 other areas in the Philippines. Its main objectives are to increase livelihood and job opportunities, strengthen capacities of LGUs to pursue local peace and development programs, ensure transparency and accountability and enable greater community participation in the pursuit o f peace and development. In 2013, DOH-ARMM reported that 45,659 women were given pre-natal visits, 36,876 post-pregnancy visits and 14,179 infants went through newborn screening. Beneficiaries of the CCT program numbered 389,656 in ARMM. 153. The regional ARMM Government also launched its Health, Education, Livelihood, Peace, and Governance and Synergy (HELPS) program for more coordinated and focused and targeted interventions at the local level. With the outpouring of support for development in ARMM and the strong drive for good governance, the State Party is hopeful that this program will contribute to the improvement of the socioeconomic conditions in the area. PCW has been providing technical assistance to the Regional Commission on Bangsamoro Women (RC BW), its counterpart machinery in ARMM, on gender mainstreaming to strengthen its competency to perform its function of promoting and monitoring gender responsive programming and implementation in ARMM. 154. An NGO initiative focusing on literacy problem in Muslim Mindanao is that of the Magbassa Kita Foundation Incorporated. The Foundation started Literacy for Peace and Development Project (LIPAD) in 2010 in response to the findings of the Functional Literacy and Mass Media Survey conducted every five yea rs by the National Statistics Office that showed ARMM registering the lowest literacy rates in two consecutive survey periods – 2003 and 2008. The project aimed to graduate at least 62,500 adult neo-literates until 2013. Also, it aimed to reinforce peace and development efforts by incorporating peace and development themes in its curriculum. Recently, it also integrated gender related core messages, such as those 34/36 15-03079