CEDAW/C/PHL/CO/7-8/Add.1 29. The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) launched the LGU Scorecard which gauges the performance of LGUs in attaining the United Nation ’s Sustainable Development Goals. Removing barriers in access to justice and ensuring that courts adjudicate cases involving women’s SRH rights without undue delay 30. The 2017 Revised Guidelines for Continuous Trial of Criminal Cases was issued to significantly streamline the criminal litigation process. 31. The Supreme Court’s Enhanced Justice on Wheels (EJOW) Program delivers accessible justice to local communities. Disputants are provided with makeshift court facilities in EJOW buses and free services of judges, prosecutors, mediators, clerks and lawyers. The program also includes jail and docket decongestion, court-annexed mediation, free legal aid to inmates, and information dissemination for barangay (village) officials. 32. The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Supreme Court have introduced the use of anatomically correct dolls to aid in the prosecution and trial of GBV and sexual abuse cases against children. 33. The Supreme Court organized, along with designated trial courts, Statutory Family Courts that will have jurisdiction over cases of domestic violence again st women. One of this court’s features is the use of live-link equipment if it has been deemed that the woman-victim would suffer further trauma if she were to testify in the presence of the offender. Ensuring that the CEDAW, MCW, and RPRH Law are integrated in the training of judges, lawyers and prosecutors 34. The State’s regular trainings to enhance gender-responsiveness of court officers and prosecutors cover subjects such as basic concepts and gender sensitivity, use of gender-fair language, avoidance of gender discrimination in court decisions, laws relating to women’s rights, handling cases involving children, multidisciplinary approaches in handling GBV cases to ensure holistic response, and human rights based approach in the investigation and prosecution of GBV cases. Details are presented in Annex 4. 35. Surveys of court decisions and issuances were conducted to determine gender sensitivity and responsiveness of the courts, and the effectiveness of the aforesaid trainings. Ensuring that policies/legislation prioritize protection of women’s health rights over discriminatory religious postulates 36. See paragraphs 7, 10, and 13 for related discussions. 37. There are efforts to address gender and cultural/religious barriers to family planning use specific to the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). 38. The State, through the DOH-ARMM, continues to engage Muslim religious leaders in shaping positive behaviours among Muslim males in mainstreaming moderate views on health and family planning in the context of birth spacing and protecting women’s health. A team of these leaders composed of local imams and a’immah has been capacitated and organized as expert resources in community mobilization sessions. 18-19201 5/9