CEDAW/C/PHL/7-8 pertaining to human rights of women. LIPAD plans to deploy 1,250 literacy facilitators across the region. It produced literacy materials and translated these in the five major dialects in the region. As of April 2013, LIPAD has graduated an estimated 46,000 adult neo-literates in over 42 municipalities and 619 barangays in ARMM. 155. For rural women in general, the State Party has been implementing a number of programs primarily to increase their access to resources for livelihood, education, health, leadership opportunities. Various government agencies address sectors of rural women according to their mandate. Their interventions include training on technologies (production, postharvest, processing, etc.); farm inputs (fertilizers, seeds and planting materials); loans/credit; and market assistance facilitated by local governments for farmers, fisherfolk and groups of community women, such as the Rural Improvement Clubs (RICs) and other Rural-Based Organizations (RBOs). 156. To strengthen the tenurial status of the agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs), Guidelines governing Gender Equality in the implementation of Agrarian Reform Laws and mainstreaming Gender and Development was issued the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR). This Guidelines guarantees equal rights of both spouses and common-law partners in the process of identification, screening, and s election of agrarian reform beneficiaries. In order to recognize the rights of farmer spouses, names of both spouses are inscribed in the Emancipation Parent/Certificate of Land Ownership Award (EP/CLOA) shall be preceded by the word ‘spouses’. In case of common-law relationship, names of both parties are likewise written in the EP/CLOA with the conjunctive word “and” between their names. The policy also aims to strengthen and develop enabling mechanisms, programs, policies, systems and procedures towards gender responsive implementation of agrarian laws. 157. The amended Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program, entitled Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reform (CARPER) or RA 9700 gives the highest consideration to the welfare of the landles s farmers and farm workers. It recognizes the rights of rural women to own and control land, and guarantees substantive equality between men and women as qualified to own directly or collectively the lands they till or to receive a just share of the fruits thereof. To support rural enterprises, the State Party, through the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and other government agencies, implement rural micro enterprise programs, majority of beneficiaries of which are women micro entrepreneurs. 158. Another program of the State Party for rural workers is the Social Amelioration Program (SAP) which strengthens the rights of workers in the sugar industry to their just share in the fruits of production and provides additional monetary and welfare benefits to sugar workers to enable them and their families to enjoy a decent living. It includes a cash bonus distribution program which is supported by the 80% portion of the lien which is distributed as cash bonus to mill and plantation workers, the sugar workers maternity benefit program which provides financial assistance to all female sugar workers, the death benefits program and the socio-economic projects or livelihood program for workers. Participation in local governance and decision-making bodies 159. Women’s participation in local decision-making is one of the concerns of the MCW. The law provides that 40% of local special bodies should be represented by 15-03079 35/36