CEDAW/C/PHL/7-8 959,368 households in 4,337 barangays. Beneficiaries of this program are both women and men. It has particularly increased their participation in the labour force, and in local decisions advancing development through responsive community projects and accountable governance. 112. The Sustainable Livelihood Program provides capacity building to improve the program participants’ socio-economic status, executed through employing two tracks vis-a-vis strategies. First, it supports microenterprises to become organizationally and economically viable through a capacity building program that focuses on community development, skills enhancement, network building and capital assistance to poor families included in the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) list, prioritizing the CCT beneficiaries in order to improve their opportunities for managing a sustainable microenterprise. Second, it links participants to employment opportunities by providing assistance to unemployed poor families included in the NHTS-PR list, also prioritizing the CCT beneficiaries, who are provided with skills profiling, job matching, occupational guidance and counselling and job referrals. 113. As of January 2014 a total of 340,163 poor households were served from January 2011 to October 2013: 288,601 (94.74%) households are enrolled in the micro enterprise development track while 16,488 (5.40%) are under the employment facilitation track. The program has been benefitting both women and men contributing to eradication of poverty and hunger and gender equ ality and empowerment of women. 114. For social protection of women and their families, the State Party, through the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) developed a health benefit package in addressing access to and affordability of quality h ealth care for women in the informal economy. PhilHealth approved the implementation of the partial subsidy scheme for the coverage of women micro-entrepreneurs (WMEs), small self-employed and other low-income workers of the informal economy. Capacity development and vocational education 115. The State Party, through its concerned agencies, provides capability-building services leading to employment or entrepreneurship for both women and men. Through its Women’s Centre, the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) addresses vocational/technical training needs of women, particularly in traditionally male-dominated courses. Females have slowly outnumbered male enrolees in certain courses, expanding their employment opportunities in such jobs as welding, refrigeration and automotive repair. More and more, women are also enrolled in non-school based settings or community-based training, a strategy that allows women greater flexibility to attend training. 116. The Gender Responsive Economic Actions for the Transformation of Women (GREAT Women Project) supported by the Canadian Government is a project on the promotion of gender-responsive governance and women’s microenterprise development. The project fostered gender-responsive enabling environments for women’s economic empowerment at the national and local levels, including capacity-building initiatives for women micro-entrepreneurs. A GREAT Women brand was created with the assistance of a social enterprise group. This is a flagship brand for products of women micro-entrepreneurs who went through training in product development, packaging, and the like, and whose products passed a series 15-03079 27/36