the needs of health workers, the strengthening of the Magna Carta for Health Professionals, and regularizing/professionalizing BHS. Throughout the Inquiry, I have come to realize that despite the discrimination, disregard, disinformation and dynamics that lead to disempowerment, there are packets of good practices that we can learn from as a responsible member of the community and as part of national government to replicate. Let me share two good things, two packets of good practice that I think should be commended in this report. One is the Nurse Deployment Program in Sorsogon. One of the things I’d like to appeal to is for DOH to continue with the program. The NDP will end in November or December of 2016. I hope that the DOH can continue the program including that of midwives, and to vigorously continue the program in areas where there are clear barriers, especially when the barrier is the LGU itself. Second is the presence of NGOs. While the State is primary duty bearer in fulfilling the rights of women to reproductive health, the presence of NGOs has been crucial in many ways. The presence for example of FPOP, Likhaan, PKKK and Sarilya in communities were very important not only through the dispensation of commodities and services, in providing information and in leading advocacies but also as observatories, as monitor. We consider you our eyes, and our partners to be able to monitor in order to push for an enabling environment for women to have a choice, and for the realization of women’s human rights. I say that we have to widen the choices for women seeing that they are gatekeepers for RH in the family, I do not discount the participation of men. This is my last point, we cannot ignore the critical responsibility of men in the family. We cannot discount the importance of having men who are RH advocates, and who could show and illustrate that families and couples make informed decision. We need models and advocates to show that that men are not barriers but partners in realizing RH in the family, with women, children and men. We also need to see more acceptors on the method of family planning that are geared for men like vasectomy and to send the clear message that RH concerns men too. These are my reflections, as a woman who journeyed in the Commission’s National Inquiry on Reproductive Health. As a woman, I am thankful for the opportunity to have listened to the stories of many women all over the country and for the opportunity to take home learnings from the stories and accounts I have heard. As the Focal Commissioner 6