CEDAW/C/PHL/7-8 123. As of 2013, the targeted 50-50 in the bureaucracy is short by 5 percentage points with 45% of third level positions occupied by women. However, the President has appointed women to important cabinet or highly critical positions in government, beginning with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the Secretary of the DOJ, the Chairperson of the CHRP and the Ombudsman, all important in dispensing justice for women. Also in the Cabinet are women secretaries of the DOLE, the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process and the head of the Government Panel for Peace Negotiation, the DSWD, the CHED a nd the CFO. While not secretary level, the President has also appointed women to important posts, like the head of the Bureau of Internal Revenue and the Pag -Ibig Fund (housing fund). Women’s participation in the diplomatic service is also improving. Between 2002 and 2010, the percentage of women in key posts (Ambassador and Consul General) rose from 28% to 35%. 124. In terms of women’s representation in local special bodies, the figures are also encouraging, particularly with the increasing awareness of go vernment on the provisions of the MCW. Women form 48% of local school boards, 50% of local health boards, 30% of local peace and order councils, 31% of local housing boards, but a low 16% of local development councils. 125. Women NGOs’ participation in the anti-poverty agenda of the government is institutionalized through the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC). NAPC is composed of lead government agencies and 14 basic sectoral councils — peasant and fisherfolk, formal labour, informal sector, migrant workers, urban poor, indigenous peoples, people with disabilities, senior citizens, women, youth and students, children, victims of disasters and calamities, etc. Aside from the 30% participation of women in each of the sectoral councils, there is a women ’s sectoral council that is 100% women. These women sectoral council representatives and the women in the other basic sectoral councils have been trained on the MCW to ensure that gender perspectives and women’s rights are included in all the basic sectoral councils’ agenda. The members assist in monitoring the MCW at the local level and participate in local decision-making. On women’s access to reproductive health services Policy initiatives for women’s reproductive health and rights 126. MCW mandates comprehensive women’s health services and health information and education covering all stages of a woman’s life cycle. It mandates concerned government agencies and local government units to ensure comprehensive, culture sensitive and gender responsive health programs as well as appropriate, timely, complete and accurate health information and education. 127. Prior to the enactment of the RPRH Law, the government issued the policy on Implementing Health Reforms to Rapidly Reduce Maternal and Newborn Mor tality. The policy calls for planned and wanted pregnancies and facility based deliveries, towards substantial reductions in maternal mortality ratios and under-five mortality by 2015. 128. Another important health policy is contained in R.A. 10028 or the “Expanded Breastfeeding Promotion Act of 2009” which amended RA 7600 or the “Rooming-in and Breastfeeding Act of 1992.” The law adopts a national policy to encourage, protect and support the practice of breastfeeding focused on the setting up and 15-03079 29/36