CEDAW/C/PHI/Q/6/Add.1 identified by the trade and industry department. The program has been launched in April 2006, and is now in its pilot implementation. The NCIP in coordination with the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) for 2006 to 2008 intends to promote IP enterprises including promotion of IP women products and local and foreign markets. ! Rural and Indigenous Women’s Access to Training and Education The indigenous peoples’ commission has provided skills and entrepreneurship training to IP women which includes training on loom/mat/basket weaving, bead making, cut flower production, food processing, dressmaking and agricultural production. The Department of Education Bureau of Alternative Learning System (BALS) assists rural and indigenous women through its Basic Literacy Program, Family Basic Literacy Project and Nonformal Education Accreditation and Equivalency Learning Support Delivery Service (NFE A&E LSDS). Rural Improvement Clubs are the primary recipients of training services of the Agricultural Training Institute (ATI) at the local particularly at the barangay level. Around 8,670 of RICs, which have a total membership of 420,574 all over the country, are beneficiaries of Home Economics Extension Program. Non-formal education and training are conducted through homemakers’ classes, home/ farm visits, hands-on demonstrations, meetings, achievement days, seminar workshops and conventions. Among the activities conducted with RICs are on the following: a) food and nutrition; b) health and sanitation; c) home management; d) child care and development; e) population education and development; and g) RIC in cooperatives. ! Rural and Indigenous Women’s Participation at the village decision-making levels Participation of Indigenous Women in Community Level Consultative Bodies The Indigenous Peoples Consultative Body (IPCB) at the Ancestral domain and Resettlement (Displaced) Community levels have mandatory indigenous women representation of at least 20% particularly in the body of different sectors such as traditional leaders, elderly, women, youth and other sectors as may be chosen by the community. Indigenous women are also represented (with at least 20% representation) in the IPCB at the Provincial Consultative Body (PCB/CCB), Ethnographic Regional Consultative Body (ERCB), and National Consultative Body (NCB levels). However, there are only 6 indigenous women that were elected as chairperson comprising 9% of the total duly elected chairpersons of the 66 PCB/CCB nationwide. Participation of Women in Agricultural and Fisheries Councils The National Agriculture and Fisheries Council (NAFC) reported that women comprise only 7% of the total membership of Agricultural and Fisheries Councils (AFCs) nationwide. The ratio of membership of women to men at the Provincial Agriculture and Fisheries Council (PAFC) level is 1:4, while at the Municipal Agriculture and Fisheries Council (MAFC) level the ratio is 1:3. All 16 Regional Agriculture and Fisheries Councils (RAFCs) currently have male chairpersons while at the PAFC level, only 3 out of the 79 provinces have women chairpersons. 28