- Right to adequate food
- Ensure the availability and sustainability of food supplies
- Proactively engage the poor in activities intended to promote self-sufficiency
- Right to decent work
- Ensure access to information regarding job openings
- Ensure the compliance of private contractors and subcontractors doing national and local public work projects
- Promote livelihood among the poor
- Ensure compliance with core labor standards, address the job and skills mismatch, and provide training and education
- Right to relevant and quality education
- Maintain a system of free public education in the kindergarten, elementary, and high school level.
- Make higher education accessible to all poor individuals
- Ensure access to quality technical-vocational education and training through scholarships, subsidies, and financial assistance.
- Right to adequate housing
- Prioritize the implementation of the socialized housing program with identified appropriate subsidies
- Immediately construct and provide housing facilities for families living in identified hazardous/danger zones, and in areas affected by disasters/calamities
- Create an enabling environment that will assist the poor to gain access to the security of tenure with the least financial burden
- Provide a system for the speedy processing and approval of community-based socialized housing
- Right to the highest attainable standard of health
- Ensure equitable access to a system of good quality health care
- Provide for comprehensive, universal, culture-sensitive, nondiscriminatory and gender-responsive health services
- Reduce the financial burden of health care and protection of the poor through a socialized health insurance program
- Provide health-related education and information to the community.
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