14. In light of the marked absence of disability awareness and widespread prejudice against
women with disabilities among health service providers and GBV responders—to
develop and implement a comprehensive training program that will enhance the
capacity of service providers so that they may adequately and appropriately respond to
the issues, needs, and concerns of women with disabilities;
15. To develop and implement a protocol on handling women with disabilities when they
access RH information, commodities, and services, and VAW remedies; training should
be conducted on a regular basis to maintain the same level of capacities, thereby
addressing the issue of reduced proficiency due to lack of practice;
16. For the DPWH and DOTC to fast-track and intensify the enforcement of the provisions of
Batas Pambansa 344: An Act to Enhance the Mobility of Disabled Persons by Requiring
Certain Buildings, Institutions, Establishments and Public Utilities to Install Facilities and
Other Devices in order to reduce the mobility constraints of women with disabilities as
they try to physically access RH services, commodities, and information, and VAW
remedies; Regular audits, with the participation of women with disability is likewise
recommended;
17. In light of the difficulties in delivering adequate and appropriate RH services in the face
of unsustainable workload and compensation of health service providers and workers,
for DOH to implement and monitor compliance to RA 7305: Magna Carta of Public
Health Workers;
18. In response to the persisting challenges arising out of the insufficient funding for health
services, for the government to increase public spending for health services, including
the budget for the implementation of the RPRH law;
19. In view of the RH accessibility issues suffered by women with disabilities due to the nonrecognition of their less visible or invisible disabilities—for the National Council on
Disability Affairs (NCDA) to develop and institutionalize a new PWD symbol that would
represent all kinds of disabilities;
For Local Government Units
20. To reduce, if not completely remove, the barriers to RH access for women with
disabilities by complying with the provisions of Section 18: Sexual and Reproductive
Health Programs for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) of the RPRH law;
21. To institutionalize the promotion of the SRHR of women with disabilities in their cities
and municipalities by issuing relevant policies, with corresponding funding allocation,
that would guarantee the provision of sign language interpreters in RH access points,
the hiring of disability specialists such as psychiatrists; and the outfitting of local health
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