CEDAW/C/PHL/7-8 women. This representation is being extended into sector-specific local councils. For instance, the National Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Management Council, included 129 female officers (20%) as representatives of the fisherfolk. Women also comprise 43% of agrarian reform organizations and are also present in local agricultural and fisheries councils. There is also a National Coalition of Rural Women (Pambansang Koalisyon ng Kababaihan sa Kanayunan or PKKK) consisting of organizations and federations of associations of women peasant, fisherfolk, farm workers, and indigenous peoples; including rural women in the sectors of informal labour, elderly, youth, and persons with disabi lities; and NGOs. It advocates for action to address the needs of rural, indigenous and Muslim women. 160. More than one quarter (27%) of the 1,143,914 agrarian reform beneficiaries as of December 2010 are women. Rural women availed almost half of the tota l agricultural credit from the government Quedan and Rural Credit Guarantee Corporation (QUEDANCOR). Women agrarian reform beneficiaries have also been accessing agricultural and micro-finance credit services. On CEDAW and the MDGs 161. The integration of gender equality and women’s empowerment concerns across all the MDG targets and for the expansion of the list of gender indicators to Goal 3 (gender equality) has always been advocated by the State Party, through the PCW and other government agencies. As a result, there is greater consciousness of the gender dimension of each MDG goal and its corresponding indicators, with more attention to the needs and concerns of women and girl children in the implementation of the education, poverty eradication, hea lth and the environment objectives. In the periodic MDG reports, VAW indicators are discussed under MDG3. On disseminating the concluding comments 162. Following the receipt of the Concluding Comments to the 5th and 6th Progress Report in 2006, the State Party launched forums and conferences, including in the regions on the Committee’s comments. These were reproduced and translated in 6 regional languages. (Please see Annex 4 on the materials produced on the concluding comments.) 163. UN-Women published “Going CEDAW in the Philippines,” a 200-page documentation of government and NGO’s convergent efforts to implement CEDAW produced by the Women’s Feature Service (WFS). Copies were distributed to the media, lawmakers and various organizations and individuals. WFS also produced 14 stories on the South-East Asian experience in implementing CEDAW, five of which were picked up by the national media and three were posted on the UNIFEM website. 164. Exhibits with the concluding comments on tarpaulin stands were held in shopping malls and these also travelled in schools and different government agencies and events. NGOs together with government collaborated to work on these concluding comments. 36/36 15-03079