CEDAW/C/PHI/5-6 Agrarian Reform Community (ARC) development approach.20 It also provided classified guidelines to ensure gender equality in the generation and issuance of Emancipation Patents and Certificate of Land Ownership Awards (EP/CLOA) between spouses who are agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs). 514. In the last few years, the department has introduced additional safeguards such as the issuance of Administrative Order No. 1 series of 2001. This is to further protect the rights of both spouses to ownership of the land. This requires the issuance of Emancipation Patents or Certificates of Land Ownership Award (EP/CLOA) in the name of both spouses, in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Family Code and the Civil Code on property relations involving legally married and common-law spouses. It also ordered the integration of genderresponsive reporting system in the reporting system for land acquisition and distribution and in the department’s computerized information system. The Department’s National GAD Steering Committee through the GAD Technical Working Group Focal Point provides the directions and monitoring of the gender-based agrarian reform programs. The regional and provincial GAD Focal Points serve as implementing bodies. 515. The efforts of recent years to obtain gender parity in land distribution seemed to have born fruits. From January to December 2003, women beneficiaries (33% of total beneficiaries) were granted 18,205 EP/CLOAs. Included among the individual beneficiaries were husbands and wives who opted to have their EP/CLOA issued separately and in the case of collective EP/CLOA to be listed or annotated as separate beneficiaries regardless of their marital affiliation provided their respective vested rights to the awarded lands have been verified and established according to law. 516. From 1993 to December 2003, the agrarian reform department launched 1,587 ARCs nationwide where 66,201 beneficiaries cultivated their land. A total of 3,391 farmers’ organizations or cooperatives operate in these areas. Women accounted for 35 percent of the members. They also accounted for 41 percent of committee members, but only 28 percent of leaders. 517. As discussed under Article 13, the social welfare department has been at the forefront of providing social services to the poorest sector. It has established and operated barangay day care centers, a number located in rural areas. It conducted training, extended capital assistance and delivered an integrated package of social services in order to help families living in poverty. 518. The agriculture department undertakes a wide range of gender-responsive programs through its different bureaus and offices. Some of these are the following: a. Livelihood Enhancement for Agricultural Development of the National Agriculture and Fishery Council, which covers 423 projects benefiting 27,150 rural women nationwide with funding amounting to about PhP60 million. The department uses as an indicator of success the economic viability and sustainability of projects that ultimately benefit women. 20An “Agrarian Reform Community” is composed of a cluster of land-reformed barangays (village) in a municipality where farmers and farm workers are awaiting the full implementation of agrarian reform. 139