centers with PWD-friendly features and appropriate RH services, commodities, and information for women with disabilities, among others; 22. To take into account the specific mobility issues of women with disabilities in their localities, and to implement corresponding RH community-based programs such as mobile health clinics, legal caravans, and house-to-house visits that would increase the access of women with disabilities to services, commodities, and information, and GBV remedies; 23. In view 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; 24. In consideration of the increased vulnerabilities of women with disabilities when they become victims of GBV—for LGUs to provide a comprehensive support package for the victim-survivors, which should include legal aid, scholarships, employment, housing psychosocial support, and allowances for the women with disabilities and their children, especially if the spouse is the perpetrator or if a baby is born out of the assault; Accountability and complaint mechanisms for inaction or insensitive and discriminatory handling of cases should be strengthened. 25. In recognition of the important role of organizing in increasing the RH awareness and facilitating the empowerment of women with disabilities—for PDAOs, CSWDOs/MSWDOs, and the barangays to aid women with disabilities in forming their own organizations and/or assisting existing PWD- and women’s- organizations in organizing women with disabilities; 26. For the Office of the City/Municipal Engineer to comply with the provisions of Batas Pambansa 344 and MCDP in order to reduce the mobility constraints of women with disabilities as they try to physically access RH services, commodities, and information, and VAWC remedies; 27. In light of the difficulties in delivering adequate and appropriate RH services in the face of unsustainable workloads and inadequate compensation of health service providers and workers—for the LGUs to comply with the provisions of RA 7305: Magna Carta of Public Health Workers; For the Judiciary: Supreme court and lower courts 28. To develop and implement a protocol on handling women with disabilities during court proceedings, especially in cases of GBV; training among relevant personnel should be conducted on a regular basis to maintain the same level of capacities, thereby 31

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