culture to use artificial contraceptives. They have traditional knowledge and use herbs and plants for contraception. The youth also generally do not have access to family planning services without the consent of their parents. No adolescent, and youth medical services including sex education are available for teenagers in many communities. Post abortion services. Women in majority of the Regions do not have access to postabortion services in health facilities. This is not included in the range of RH services that the health centers provide. The exceptions are in Region 4 where health facilities, especially in San Pablo City, are clean and accredited to conduct services in post-abortion care; and in Region and 8 where to some extent, post abortion services are offered in hospitals. Policies and practices on RH. Majority of the LGUs are deemed to be supportive of RH, in varying degrees, and with certain limitations. However, there are common issues that repeatedly come out with respect to implementation of LGU’s programs on RH.  It is a recurring issue that marginalized groups, especially women in hinterlands and IPs, are not able to access the programs of the LGUs, mainly because of the distance and the lack of information available to them.  Even where there are available RH good, services, and programs by the LGUs, many people do not avail of these because they are not aware of their availability. For instance, IUDs or contraceptive pills are available in health centers but some community members think these are not free hence they do not avail of these.  In Region 12, there is a problem on the continuity of RH programs and projects for basic services due to the changes in the political landscape. Some local leaders do not continue previous programs of their predecessors especially when they belong to opposite political parties. In addition, allocation of budgets for RH is inconsistent, depending on the political will and position of the local leaders. With respect to policies and/or practices by LGUs and/ or Healthcare providers that prevent access of women and girls to RH, the following were mentioned: 16