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. 28

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