mandates under the RH law and the general availability, accessibility, sufficiency and
adequacy of RH Goods and Services.
2. The Barriers to Accessing RH Services and Information
This covers the documentation and examination of individual and/or systemic
accounts of omissions, structures, policies and/or practices that resulted to denial of
access to RH services of information and/or which served as barriers in accessing
services. It also looks into the capacity of institutions to provide RH services and
information, the policies that enable or restrict delivery of RH services and
information and the existing processes and practices that bar full implementation of
the RH law.
3. Availability, Accessibility, Adequacy
Vulnerable/Marginalized Women
and
Affordability
of
RH
Services
for
As the inquiry particularly seeks to address the experiences of the most vulnerable
and marginalized, specific inquiries are made to look into the barriers to RH services
experienced by the most vulnerable and marginalized, i.e. the urban poor, rural
women, indigenous women, women with disabilities, Lesbian, Bisexual and
Transwomen, women in the informal economy, elderly women, girl children, and
women who are internally displaced and/or those who are not beneficiaries of the
DOH’s 2015 Family Planning Funds. This looks into policies that address or fail to
address the specific situations of vulnerable/marginalized women and on the
intersecting and compounded forms of discrimination that exacerbate their
experiences and sufficiency of the State’s responses.
4. To document the barriers and problems experienced by service providers, both state and
non-state, in providing reproductive health services, particularly to those most
vulnerable and marginalized.
Health service providers both public and private face various challenges in the
implementation of the RH law. This section covers and documents the experiences of
health workers and health services providers, including an examination of policies
that enable or restrict delivery of information and services, the institutional and
capacity-related challenges, as well as cultural and religious challenges they
encounter in the implementation of the RH law.
After the presentation of the issues on the basis of the fact finding and public hearings
conducted per cluster area, the recommendations gathered during the conduct of the
national inquiry will likewise be presented.
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