and the lack of consultation between program implementors and concerned groups.
Other issues that seem to be consistent across the different sectors are; 111
a. Discrimination – they feel discriminated by program qualifications or
conditionalities and they also experience discrimination in their respective
workplace or from society.
b. Insufficient facilities for their needs – especially for persons with disabilities.
Indigenous participants remark that most facilities are far from their ancestral
domain and that makes it problematic to access them or to comply with
conditionalities of the program.112
Fig 3. Monitoring
the Human
Rights Situation
of Persons with
Disabilities in
Region XI
24 April 2019
c. Lack
of
sufficient
resources
for
programs
–
whether
it be monetary or personnel resource, the participants felt that they are
inadequate. Some GIDA don’t even have health workers according to the
participants, while some LGUs lack funds to make the social protection programs
effective.
d. Difficulty in claiming benefits – there seems to be a consensus that there are too
much requirements to claim benefits. This is particularly cumbersome for sectors
111 Ibid.
112 One of the conditionalities for the MCCT is that children must have regular check-ups
from accredited health service providers.
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