been a good start in promoting the inclusion of persons with disabilities into society. However, there has been no follow-through with the project, nor the NCDA or other government agencies have replicated it or launched a similar initiative since the project’s conclusion in 2012. Moreover, RA No. 10524 supposedly protects and promotes equal opportunity for employment of persons with disabilities through the implementation of the one percent (1%) provision of reserved positions for them in all government agencies, offices, or corporal positions and private corporations with more than 100 employees.197 However, compliance with such provision does not necessarily suggest employing qualified persons with disabilities since offices and companies usually employ persons with disabilities based on the severity of their disability and not based on their competencies. Thus, persons with disabilities who, despite being competent skill-wise, are deemed unqualified because of the severity of their conditions. Discrimination 171. With the online recruitment becoming a trend, job recruitment based on appearance as evident, for instance, on an employer’s insistence for a face-to-face interview, can be considered a violation of one’s right to work and to equal opportunity based on the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Presidential Decree No. 966198), Magna Carta of Disabled Persons (Republic Act No. 7277), or the Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Act (Republic Act of 8371), or even the proposed Anti-Discrimination Act, which specifies among discriminatory practices, “to include SOGIE, as well as the disclosure of sexual orientation, in the criteria for hiring, promotion, transfer, designation, work assignment, reassignment, dismissal of workers, and other human resource movement and action, performance review and in the determination of employee compensation, career development opportunities, training, and other learning and development interventions, incentives, privileges, benefits or allowances, and other terms and conditions of employment.”199 Recommendations The following are the recommendations proposed based on the key findings and gaps identified in the FGDs conducted with the representatives of the different sectors. For the National Government 172. Encourage more IPs to pursue schooling such as by offering more scholarship programs for them. 173. The national government, through CHED, TESDA, DepEd, and state universities, can form partnerships with industries and human resource 197 198 199 Republic Act No. 10524, at § 1. International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, adopted Dec. 21, 1965. S.B. No. 689, at § 5. 62