RECOMMENDATIONS Found below are the recommendations that followed from the fact finding and public hearing: To Policymakers:        Continue monitoring the compliance of government agencies with the Magna Carta of Women (NCR) Intensify the monitoring of the RH Law with the engagement of CHR (Zamboanga) Enhance and update the CHR’s Regional Women’s Human Rights Profile (NCR) Integration of institutional efforts such the DepEd and DOH for RH education (CDO) Review policies on abortion in light of international policy trends on abortion, obligations under CEDAW, and the effect of its decriminalization on women’s right to PAC under the MCW and RH Law (NCR) Augment funds for the RH Law (Legazpi-Sorsogon) Ensure funding for RH through national government agencies rather than LGUs (Legazpi-Sorsogon) To Implementing Agencies/ Service Providers            Strengthen advocacy for RH, emphasizing the moral rather than just legal obligations of service providers and communities towards RH (Leyte-Samar) Implementers should go to the ground to see what is happening (Leyte-Samar) Increased information dissemination on RH, including exhausting venues for educating women and men such as the 4Ps (Legazpi-Sorsogon) and for educating the youth such as schools (CDO) The government should also educate the women on their right to their own bodies, the control to their own bodies, their right to say NO, on their right to assert their needs. Those are things that should be part in the family planning and reproductive health implementations. (Leyte-Samar) Increase effort at motivating couples to undergo FP and RH training (Zamboanga) Identify and capacitate a focal person for the RH Law (Zamboanga) Promote CSO engagement including for capacity-building (Zamboanga) Engage religious leaders in the promotion of RH (Zamboanga) Ensure the full provision and delivery of RH goods and services especially to those living in far flung areas (Legazpi-Sorsogon) Strengthen the provision of balanced and accurate information drive on natural and modern FP methods, (Legazpi-Sorsogon) Ensure the availability of different FP methods so people can have their choice on what to use (Legazpi-Sorsogon) 49