CEDAW/C/PHI/4 English Page 67 Policy/institutional developments Legislative actions/administrative orders/issuances 280. The Department of Agriculture, one of the Government's lead agencies in charge of the development of the rural areas, has drawn up the Medium-term Agricultural Development Plan. This Plan seeks to enable those in the sector, both women and men farmers and fisherfolk, to raise their incomes and improve their standards of living. It also aims to provide the necessary infrastructure and other support services to facilitate agricultural productivity. 281. Also within the framework of Republic Act 7192, the Department of Agrarian Reform, the agency involved in promoting equitable access to and control over land, adopted policies and guidelines for the effective implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program. Through Administrative Order No. 2, Series of 1993, rules and regulations for the identification, delineation and recognition of ancestral domains were designed. This Order provides that all farmworkers who are married to each other may be entitled to three hectares each, provided that their vested rights to the land have been duly established. A separate certificate of land ownership agreement must be issued to each of the spouses. This has been a landmark development from the traditional manner of issuing certificates to the male household heads. 282. Under the Department's programme beneficiaries development units, the Agrarian Reform Communities Strategic Development Intervention Framework was developed which details the gender-based organizing and development process. It also initiated the generation of gender-specific data through in-house research to find out how women are benefiting from the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program. 283. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources, through Administrative Order No. 4, Series of 1991, grants the Integrated Social Forestry Program's certificates of stewardship contracts to both spouses, making the husband and wife co-stewards of the land. This initiative, however, is being criticized by some non-governmental organizations, according to whom there is conflict between customary land use and ownership of indigenous peoples in the present legal system. The right to ancestral domain has not been enacted into law. They likewise revealed that the Department initiated the programme (identified and delineated ancestral land) without consulting the affected indigenous peoples. 284. In compliance with Republic Act 7192, the Philippine Plan for Genderresponsive Development was formulated. The Plan, which is envisioned to address gender and development concerns from 1995 to 2025, is the Philippine Government's 30-year perspective framework for pursuing full equality and development for women and men. The chapters on agrarian reform, agriculture, indigenous people and environment and natural resources in the Plan explicitly recognize the role of rural women in the development process. Creation of gender and development focal points 285. Aside from the Medium-term Agricultural Development Plan, the Department of Agriculture likewise issued Special Order No. 21, series of 1994, directing all /...