CEDAW/C/PHI/4 English Page 8 (b) A joint memorandum circular on the integration of gender and development into the agency plan and budget jointly issued by the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), the Department of Budget and Management and NCRFW; (c) Inclusion for the first time of a provision on gender-responsive projects in the 1995 General Appropriations Act; (d) The 1996 Budget Call classified women in development/gender and development activities among the priority programmes of the Government, to ensure its consideration even from the very start of the budgeting process for 1996. 33. NCRFW also published The Women's Budget: Philippines, 1995-1996, a document which assesses the resources that the Philippine Government, through its various agencies, spends for the advancement of women. 34. In response to the Fourth World Conference on Women, the NCRFW Board of Commissioners adopted a set of priority policy imperatives (enumerated below) on the areas of concern of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and presented it for the approval of the President. These policies will serve to focus agencies' efforts to attain a more observable impact in the immediate years. (1) Women and poverty/women and economic inequality: (a) in view of the increasing burden of poverty on women, review, adopt and maintain macroeconomic policies, including structural adjustment programmes and development strategies that address the needs and efforts of women to overcome poverty within the framework of sustainable development; and (b) strengthen the access of women to training, economic resources (including land, credit, science and technology, vocational training, information, communication and markets), employment and promotion opportunities. (2) Women and the media/women and education: promote a balanced and non-stereotyped portrayal of women in the media, arts and education. (3) Women and health: (a) achieve for Filipino women the highest level of health throughout their life cycle; and (b) promote the reproductive health and reproductive rights of women. (4) Women and violence: enact and implement integrated measures to eliminate violence against women and protect victims of such violence. (5) Women in situations of armed conflict: (a) increase and strengthen the participation of women in conflict resolution and decision-making; and (b) protect women in armed conflicts. (6) Women in decision-making: (a) ensure women's equal access to and full participation in power structures and decision-making, in both the public and private sectors; and (b) ensure women's full participation in decision-making within the family structures. /...