CEDAW/C/PHI/4 English Page 69 Programme/project developments 289. Under the Medium-term Agricultural Development Plan, the Department of Agriculture adapted the Grameen Bank scheme by providing credit access to rural women as well as promoting savings mobilization and capital build-up formation. As of 1995, the membership of the scheme totalled 13,528, with 12,357 members having availed themselves of loans amounting to P31.4 million. Total savings generated by members amounted to P4.2 million. Beneficiaries of this programme are the bottom poor women in the rural areas. 290. Through the Grains Production Enhancement Program, the Rapid Rural Appraisal Survey was conducted, covering 38 Program priority provinces with an estimated 13,000 farmer-respondents, for the months of September to March 1993, cropping season. The Survey aims to generate sex-disaggregated data. The First Program Performance Review was also initiated to assess the efficiency of the Program in delivering services to the intended women and men beneficiaries. 291. In addition, a national integrated pest management programme, "Kasaganaan sa Sakahan at Kalikasan" (KASAKALIKASAN) was implemented which aims to educate farmers on proper crop husbandry and pest management through training. The project guaranteed the participation of at least 30 per cent of women farmers and technicians nationwide. 292. Other programmes which adopted a special focus on women are the following: (a) A post-harvest project, which aims to improve the role and efficiency of farm household members in post-harvest activities and train rural women in harvest loss prevention; (b) Development of small engineering technologies for women; (c) A pilot community for fisherfolk. 293. The Department of Agriculture has also fielded technicians to provide extension services to village people. As of 1991, it was able to mobilize 21,000 agricultural technicians who provided technical support in farming, livestock and poultry-raising and home management to rural folk. The implementation of this programme, however, is now under the supervision of local officials in compliance with the Local Government Code; hence, the activities of the technicians are no longer monitored. No data are available on whether or not local government units are pursuing this project. 294. Aside from providing extension services, Department of Agriculture technicians organize rural women into groups known as Rural Improvement Clubs. Efforts have been exerted to reorient these clubs to take on less traditional activities. 295. To cushion the adverse effect of the adoption of GATT, an action plan of adjustment measures was drafted for the agriculture sector, as follows: /...