CEDAW/C/PHI/4 English Page 9 (7) National machinery for women's advancement: (a) strengthen the national machinery on women by providing new and additional resources to enable it to continue mainstreaming gender concerns in development; (b) institutionalize the priority being given to gender and development in the General Appropriations Act; (c) generate and disseminate gender-disaggregated data for planning and evaluation; and (d) integrate a gender perspective into all legislation, public policies, programmes and projects. (8) Women and human rights: (a) promote and protect all the human rights of women through the full implementation of all United Nations conventions and all international human rights instruments relevant to women's rights; and (b) ensure the protection of the rights of vulnerable groups of women such as women belonging to minority groups, indigenous women, refugee women, migrant women, women in poverty living in rural or remote communities, destitute women, women in institutions or in detention, female children, women with disabilities, elderly women and women in situations of armed conflict. (9) Women and the environment: recognize the role of women and involve women's activities in the management of natural resources and in the safeguarding of the environment. (10) The girl child: (a) implement fully the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, especially the provision on the protection of the rights of the girl child; (b) increase public awareness of the values, needs and rights of the girl child and protect her rights; and (c) promote the rights of the girl child, balancing them with parental rights and responsibilities. 35. Non-governmental organizations likewise have a translation of the Beijing Platform for Action. The National Council of Women of the Philippines (NCWP) prepared a plan of action which would focus the efforts of its member organizations in implementing the Platform. Through NCWP, which is composed of 149 national women's organizations, 3,081 councils of women in the regions and approximately 10 million members reaching up to the grassroots level, the impact of the Platform could be felt nationwide. Other women's networks and coalitions have likewise pledged to actively pursue implementation of the Platform. III. REMAINING ISSUES AND OBSTACLES 36. Even as steady and significant strides have been taken to effectively address the gender-based inequalities which the Convention seeks to eliminate, a number of issues and obstacles in the promotion of women's interest and welfare remain to be resolved. Issues related to government as an institution for improving the situation of women 37. Inadequate tools and methodologies for gender mainstreaming. The need to develop, test, adapt and disseminate tools and methodologies for the effective /...