14. In light of the marked absence of disability awareness and widespread prejudice against women with disabilities among health service providers and GBV responders—to develop and implement a comprehensive training program that will enhance the capacity of service providers so that they may adequately and appropriately respond to the issues, needs, and concerns of women with disabilities; 15. To develop and implement a protocol on handling women with disabilities when they access RH information, commodities, and services, and VAW remedies; training should be conducted on a regular basis to maintain the same level of capacities, thereby addressing the issue of reduced proficiency due to lack of practice; 16. For the DPWH and DOTC to fast-track and intensify the enforcement of the provisions of Batas Pambansa 344: An Act to Enhance the Mobility of Disabled Persons by Requiring Certain Buildings, Institutions, Establishments and Public Utilities to Install Facilities and Other Devices in order to reduce the mobility constraints of women with disabilities as they try to physically access RH services, commodities, and information, and VAW remedies; Regular audits, with the participation of women with disability is likewise recommended; 17. In light of the difficulties in delivering adequate and appropriate RH services in the face of unsustainable workload and compensation of health service providers and workers, for DOH to implement and monitor compliance to RA 7305: Magna Carta of Public Health Workers; 18. In response to the persisting challenges arising out of the insufficient funding for health services, for the government to increase public spending for health services, including the budget for the implementation of the RPRH law; 19. In view of the RH accessibility issues suffered by women with disabilities due to the nonrecognition of their less visible or invisible disabilities—for the National Council on Disability Affairs (NCDA) to develop and institutionalize a new PWD symbol that would represent all kinds of disabilities; For Local Government Units 20. To reduce, if not completely remove, the barriers to RH access for women with disabilities by complying with the provisions of Section 18: Sexual and Reproductive Health Programs for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) of the RPRH law; 21. To institutionalize the promotion of the SRHR of women with disabilities in their cities and municipalities by issuing relevant policies, with corresponding funding allocation, that would guarantee the provision of sign language interpreters in RH access points, the hiring of disability specialists such as psychiatrists; and the outfitting of local health 30

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