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• Pantawid Pamilya Pilipino Program, also known as 4 Ps, is a government program that provides conditional cash grants to the poorest of the poor in the Philippines.
• Households receive cash grants if children stay in school and get regular health check-ups, have their growth monitored, and receive vaccines.
• Pregnant women must get prenatal care, with their births attended to by professional health workers.
• Parents or guardians are required to participate in monthly community-based Family Development Sessions.
• The Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act, R.A. 10931, is a law that institutionalizes free tuition and exemption from other fees in state universities and colleges (SUCs), local universities and colleges (LUCs) in the Philippines.
• The law also foresees subsidies also for private higher education institutions.
• The Magna Carta of Women (MCW) is a comprehensive women’s human rights law that seeks to eliminate discrimination through the recognition, protection, fulfillment, and promotion of the rights of Filipino women, especially those belonging in the marginalized sectors of the society.
• The salient features of the Magna Carta of Women (MCW) are: increasing the number of women in positions in government to achieve a fifty-fifty (50-50) gender balance, leave benefits of two (2) months with full pay based on gross monthly compensation for women employees who undergo surgery caused by gynecological disorders, non-discrimination in employment in the field of military, police and other similar services, and provision for equal access and elimination of discrimination in education, scholarships, and training.
• Person with Disabilities (PWDs) are granted at least twenty percent (20%) discount in all basic services, and verbal, non-verbal ridicule and vilification against persons with disability shall always be observed at all times.
• The Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (IPRA), R.A. 8371, has been praised for its support for the cultural integrity of indigenous peoples, the right to their lands and the right to self-directed development of these lands.