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Analyze the gender-differentiated demands for transport services in rural areas; ensure
that transportation sector policies and programmes reflect the mobility needs of rural
women; and provide them with safe, affordable and accessible means of transport.
Should collect, analyse, use and disseminate data on the situation of rural women,
disaggregated by sex, age, geographical location, disability, socio-economic, minority or
other status. Such data, including on SDG indicators, should be used to inform and design
measures, including TSMs, aimed at achieving substantive equality for rural women in all
spheres of life.”
Magna Carta of Women - RA 9710
Magna Carta of Women is a law that aims to eliminate discrimination by recognizing, protecting
and promoting the rights of Filipino women, especially the most marginalized. The law took effect
in August 2009.
RA 9710 defines “marginalized” as “the basic, disadvantaged, or vulnerable persons or groups
who are mostly living in poverty and have little or no access to land and other resources, basic
social and economic services such as health care, education, water and sanitation, employment
and livelihood opportunities, housing, social security, physical infrastructure, and the justice
system.” Small farmers, rural workers and fisherfolks were explicitly included among the
marginalized groups.
Section 8 of this law states that “all rights in the Constitution and those rights recognized under
international instruments duly signed and ratified by the Philippines, in consonance with
Philippine law, shall be rights of woman under this Act to be enjoyed without discrimination.”
Some of these rights include: Protection from violence, Right to health, Right to food, food
security and resources for food production, Gender equality in titling of land, including land in
relation to agrarian reform, Equal rights to women to the enjoyment, use, and management of
land, water, and other natural resources within their communities or ancestral domains, Equal
access to the use and management of fisheries and aquatic resources, and all the rights and
benefits accruing to stakeholders in the fishing industry, Right to Housing, Right to Decent Work,
Right to Livelihood, Credit, Capital, and Technology, Right to Education and Training, Social
Protection, Recognition and Preservation of Cultural Identity and Integrity, and Peace and
Development.
CARPER (Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms) - RA 9700
CARPER is “an act strengthening the comprehensive agrarian reform program (CARP), extending
the acquisition and distribution of all agricultural lands, instituting necessary reforms, amending
for the purpose certain provisions of republic act no. 6657, otherwise, known as the
comprehensive agrarian reform law of 1988.”
Section 1 recognizes that rural women have equal rights as to men in owning and controlling
land. They therefore should not be discriminated against being beneficiaries of the agrarian
reform program. The law further states that “in no case should the agrarian reform beneficiaries'
sex, economic, religious, social, cultural and political attributes adversely affect the distribution
of lands." (Sec. 5)
Section 37-A also provides that support services shall be extended equally to women and men
agrarian reform beneficiaries and that these services integrate the specific needs and well-being
of women farmers.
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