- Increase the engagement of women in relevant technical and vocational education and training (TVET) programs as well as non-traditional fields, to ensure their integration into the labor market. Access to Health Care and Nutrition - - - - Guarantee equal and improve access to quality health services, including prenatal and postnatal care for all Filipino women. Specifically, adequate financial resources in the annual General Appropriations Act (GAA) 55 for the implementation of the RPRH Law must be allocated. Improve the quality and quantity of health services, i.e. medical doctors, health centers, medicines, medical equipment, particularly for indigenous women living in remote rural areas and improve women’s access to these facilities. Adopt appropriate measures to protect the sexual and reproductive rights of women and girls, focusing especially on measures to reduce maternal and infant mortality among indigenous populations which is higher compared to other social and ethnic groups. Adopt appropriate measures to facilitate access to sexual and reproductive health services, including access to family planning, and information. Address, as a matter of priority, the problem of maternal deaths as a result of clandestine abortions. Access to Natural Resources and Support Services for Rural Women - - - The national agrarian reform program of the government – CARPER –will expire this month, June 2016, yet thousands of farmers, including rural women remain landless. The lack of access by women to natural resources denies their RTFN. In line with the Philippine Constitution's mandate, the Government should effectively implement a land reform program that will guarantee rural women’s equal access to land as well as accompanying support services, such as trainings, seeds, farming implements and credits, which will empower women to also be able to make their awarded land productive. Improve agrarian reform policies and guidelines to ensure access to and control over land by women, as well as the collection of official sex-disaggregated data of CLOA holders. Condonation of all unpaid past loans of agrarian reform beneficiaries for the lands awarded to them. Fully implement the IPRA by ensuring the effective enjoyment by indigenous peoples’ rights to ancestral domains, lands and natural resources particularly with respect to provisions for women’s land rights which are only subsumed in certain sections and not fully elaborated. Effectively implement Section 20 of MCW which guarantees women’s right to land and related support services which are necessary to ensure women’s RTFN and food security. Finally, we request the Committee to ask the Philippine Government to decisively act on the people’s call to immediately pass the Right to Adequate Food (RTAF) Framework Bill commonly known as the Zero Hunger Bill which was filed in the Philippine Congress in February 2014. The RTAF Bill is a comprehensive measure that provides for an explicit guarantee of the right to adequate food and creates a legal framework based on human rights principles for addressing hunger. The RTAF bill guarantees women's right to adequate food and nutrition especially during pregnancy and lactation. The bill also prohibits all forms of discrimination against women with regards to the right to adequate food and the promotion of equal of opportunities between men and women. 55 GAA refers to the national budget of the Philippines. - 10 -