CEDAW/C/PHI/Q/6/Add.1 working abroad. The second day, handled by NGO PDOS providers, focuses on self-development, realities affecting the performing artist and its effect on family, basic services, financial management and gender and sexuality. An audio-visual presentation on Health and Migration accompanied by a discussion guide was also produced by OWWA and IOM. The Migration Advisory Information Network (MAIN) is completed by sustained public information and education on overseas employment and migration through government programs on TV and radio. The two biggest TV networks ABS-CBN also run various TV and radio programs which have nationwide reach. A study has yet to be made on the impact of all these initiatives. 25. The report acknowledges that despite efforts by the Government to alleviate the plight of the rural poor, poverty remains a major issue confronting rural women (para. 524). Please provide data on rural women living in poverty and information on the impact of the Local Government Code and other government poverty-alleviation projects for rural women. Determining the extent of poverty of rural women in the Philippines remains a challenge given the lack of sex disaggregation and enhanced methodology in generating lower municipal and provincial level poverty statistics. While the basic measurement for income and consumption is still at the household level and several researches in the country tried to observe poverty incidences among male and female headed household (i.e. Family Income and Expenditure Survey), data have proven to be inconclusive and prone to error since there are still problems in the defining household heads in surveys. Sex-disaggregated poverty and income indicators have been prioritized in the Chapter on Social needs in the Philippine Statistical Development Plan 2005 – 2010. The incorporation of sexdisaggregated poverty and income indicators will be in the priority research agenda of concerned statistical agencies. The institutionalization of these activities will support the financial resources needed in the generation of social development data to show a concrete picture on the feminization of poverty. The National Statistics Coordination Board (NSCB) has conducted several activities to improve generation of poverty statistics. It has conducted a Poverty Mapping (small area estimation) funded by the World Bank ASEM trust Fund Grant which aims to address the need for lower level disaggregation of information on the poor. It generated data on poverty incidence at the municipal level for all provinces using small area estimation and also conducted two major studies. Researches to generate statistics on the basic sectors have also been conducted. It was funded under the project “Strengthening Institutional Mechanisms for the Convergence of Poverty Alleviation Efforts, Phase II (SIMCPAE-2), a project spearheaded by the National Anti-Poverty Commission with funding support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Under this project, NCSB conducted the study on the Development of Poverty Statistics for the Basic Sectors which generated provincial level poverty incidence and maps for eight basic sector groups namely women, youth, children, senior citizen, urban dwellers, migrant and informal sector workers, fisherfolks and farmers. The analysis of poverty statistics on women shows that highest poverty incidence is in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (51.1%) and the least in the National Capital (NCR) 24