CEDAW/C/PHI/5-6 c. Disability assistance, which comes as cash reimbursement of PhP1500 to PhP10000, depending on impediment grade levels, paid to migrant workers who have sustained injury or suffered disability while working abroad. As of 2001, 633 women workers availed of such assistance. d. Burial assistance, which involves the payment of P10000 or less to the legal beneficiaries of a deceased worker. It may also be availed of OWWA members who are no longer covered by the insurance program. In 2001, some 945 families of female workers were provided burial aid. e. Financial aid, which consists of monetary donations of PhP5000 or less to OWWA members who are no longer qualified to avail of any other social benefits for members but who are in need of help caused by unavoidable and unforeseen circumstances. In 2001, 3,313 workers (26 percent female) were granted such financial aid. Monetary assistance of up to PhP7000 is also available for indigent former OFW and OWWA members. In 2001, 48 women received this aid. f. Legal services, which include legal counseling, documentation, conciliation and mediation. In 2002, a total of 2,269 female overseas workers availed of these services. g. Various scholarships and skills training for target OFW and their dependents. To date, women workers accounted for 76 percent of those who attended the free training course on food processing and agricultural technology for poor but deserving OFW and their dependents, with an optional credit facility to finance livelihood projects. In 2001, some 1,717 female OFW and dependents benefited from the skill-for-employment scholarship program. The scholarship program for the primary and secondary education of children of financially distressed OFW or returnees had benefited 483 children. Of this, 289 (60 percent) were children of female workers. 397. NGOs have been active in information dissemination, education and training. For instance, the Kanlungan Centre Foundation, with support from the ILO, published a handbook for Filipino women domestic workers entitled “Destination: Middle East.” Women in the ecozones 398. To protect the interest of women in ecozones, PEZA undertook the following measures. It required prospective inventors to pre-register and submit a Memorandum of Undertaking that prohibits the practice of child labor in their operations. It also partnered with the Federacion Internacional de Abogadas and the DAW Coalition for the conduct of seminars to raise awareness on various laws that concern women workers, particularly the Anti-Sexual Harassment Law. These seminars were held in 11 ecozones, resulting in the formation of Committees on Decorum and Investigation or CODI (see paragraph 374). The impact of the CODI in the ecozone has yet to be studied. 399. The state recognizes collective bargaining as a right of workers and a means of eliminating gender-based wage inequalities. In support of organized labor, the labor department has conducted labor education for unionized and non-unionized establishments, and training and 109

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