CEDAW/C/PHI/Q/6/Add.1 the Philippine Judiciary System. It created the Committee on Gender Responsiveness in the Judiciary to spearhead the implementation of the plan. Also, seven (7) sub-committees on the following areas were created in pursuant of Supreme Court Memorandum Order No. 32-2004: Training and Capability-Building; Gender Audit and Policies, Programs and Practices; Gender-Responsive Database on the Judicial System; Promotion of the Use of Gender-Fair Language; Organization of Regular Family Courts; Establishment of Committees on Decorum and Investigation (CODI) to hear sexual harassment cases and training of CODI members; and Resource Mobilization. In 2005, the following critical activities under the Sub-committee on Training and CapabilityBuilding were conducted: 1) conduct of focus group discussions (FGDs), 2) development of the module for Gender Sensitivity Trainings (GST), and 3) conduct of GST. Other activities initiated in 2005 include the organization of the CODI in each court station, and the development of criteria/accreditation of service provider for GST. In this connection, the Philippine Judicial Academy regularly conducts special focus programs which include gender sensitivity while the Justice Department and NCRFW conducted a GST for prosecutors handling cases on VAW and trafficking in persons. In addition, the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) for all lawyers also includes GAD-related laws such as CEDAW and Violence Against Women and their Children Act. The Justice Reform Initiatives Support (JURIS) Project consists of three major components: mediation, judicial education and reform advocacy. The gender-related activities include: sexdisaggregation of information on users of mediation, success rates of male and female mediators; inclusion of discussion on the role of gender in mediation; inclusion of concepts on VAWC in the training manual for the mediators; inclusion of gender sensitivity sessions in internship program for law students; and audit of gender programs and formation of GAD plans for members of Alternative Law Groups. Moreover, the Office of the President recently issued a directive in March 2006 to the NCRFW, justice department and other concerned agencies to constitute a search committee for the appointment of qualified women in the Shari’a courts which currently have only one (1) woman judge. ! Women’s Participation in the Philippine Military Academy Republic Act No. 7192 of 1993, otherwise known as Women in Development and NationBuilding Act, provides that women shall be accorded with equal opportunities for appointment, admission, training, graduation or commissioning in all military schools. From 2001-2005, there has been a steady increase in the percentage of female cadets in the Philippine Military Academy (PMA). The following are the percentage of female cadets in the PMA: 5.08% (2001), 6.01% (2002), 6.44% (2003), 8.14% (2004), and 11.52% (2005). Female cadets in the PMA have also been showing outstanding performances, landing in the honor rolls of PMA graduating classes. In the past four years, eight (8) female cadets made it to the Top Ten List of PMA graduates (one in 2002, two in 2003, one in 2004, and four in 2005). To date, there are already two female cadets who graduated valedictorians (1999 and 2003), one female cadet who received the athletic award (2002), among other female cadets who received other major awards. 12