4. Provide concrete recommendations to the State, specifically to concerned government agencies, on mechanisms to tackle systemic/structural barriers to women with disabilities’ access to reproductive health services 2.2. Data Collection Led by the CHRP’s Center for Gender Equality and Women’s Human Rights (CGEHWR) and its respective Regional Offices, the National Inquiry was conducted in March to November 2019. The Inquiry employed the following data gathering methods: 1. Call for submissions from individuals and/or organizations of their experience with respect to—denial of/discrimination in/barriers to—access of reproductive health services for women with disabilities; 2. Survey of policies and/or programs for persons with disability, particularly focusing on women with disabilities and their access to reproductive health services among National Government Agencies (NGAs) and Persons with Disabilities Affairs Office (PDAO); 3. Conduct of fact-finding missions and public hearings in select regions in the country, namely: Region X (Cagayan de Oro, Malaybalay), Cordillera Administrative Region (Baguio City, La Trinidad), CARAGA Administrative Region (Butuan City, and nearby cities and municipality), Region VII (Cebu City, Cordova), and National Capital Region (Manila, Pateros); 4. Validation of inquiry results with women with disabilities, women’s organizations, and relevant NGAs. The inquiry was designed to allow women to tell the CHRP their stories. This is made possible through the conduct of fact-finding missions prior to the public hearing. In these fact-finding missions, women with disabilities are grouped for the conduct of a focus group discussion. There is one group for women with mobility impairment, one for blind and women with visual impairment, and another for deaf and hard-of-hearing. The design allows women to speak out and discuss disability-specific issues, even as separate key informant interviews (KIIs) are being conducted with duty bearers. The one day public hearing in each of the inquiry areas allows the women with disability to tell their stories in public and in the presence of duty bearers. Public hearings are presided by Commissioners Karen Gomez-Dumpit, Commissioner Leah TanodraArmamento, and Commissioner Gwendollyn Pimentel-Gana. Through these, stories and issues of women with disabilities are documented, together with programs, responses and challenges by the government duty bearers. 2.3. Participants “Diversity of women with disabilities includes all types of impairments which is understood as physical, psychosocial, intellectual or sensory conditions which may or may not come with functional limitations”7. The range of this diversity is quite broad. Hence, the CHRP strived, as 7 UN CRPD. 02 September 2016. CRPD/C/GC/3. 5