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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.
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