concerns and submissions on the RH Inquiry may likewise submit the same through the Commissions’ fifteen (15) Regional Offices; 3. Fact Finding and Public Hearings in five select areas in the country to be conducted the whole month of April. The select areas are: Metro Manila, Legaspi City, Tacloban City, Cagayan de Oro City and Zamboanga City. Two days will be devoted to fact finding and one day for the public hearing. The Public Hearing for Metro Manila will be on 4th of April; in Legaspi, April 14; in Zamboanga, April 21; in Tacloban, April 25 and in Cagayan de Oro, April 29. Individuals, organizations with specific concerns on RH and particularly falling within the scope of the Inquiry are encourage to participate and attend. Specific to the Fact Finding and Public Hearings, four specific objectives were identified. These objectives were also the issues that guided the conduct of the fact finding and the public hearings: 1. To review the effectiveness and implementation of the Magna Carta of Women and RH laws and related issuances by the DOH on reproductive health; 2. To document and examine individual and/or systemic accounts of omissions, structures, policies, and/or practices which result to denial of access to reproductive health services or which hinder and serve as barriers in accessing RH services; 3. To examine 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; and 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. 15