NATIONAL REPORT 2016 Implementation targets The Philippine government should take incremental steps towards the full implementation of a rehabilitation programme for all torture victims in the country. As a first step, the government should: 1. Move promptly to designate a lead agency for the implementation of the rehabilitation programme and to make clear and adequate budgetary provisions for the programme to function as a specialised service function in the public health system. 2. Ensure that the programme offers specialised rehabilitation services that are available, appropriate and promptly accessible in accordance with General Comment 3 and that access is not conditional on the filing of formal administrative or criminal complaints. 3. Ensure that victims can freely choose between services provided by the government and by non-government actors such as NGOs and setup a voucher system to compensate the non-government actors for their service provision. 4. Establish a programme of monitoring and evaluation of the impact of the rehabilitation programme including by starting a data collection programme to identify the number of victims and what their specific rehabilitation needs are. In additions, the Philippine government should: 1. Immediately convene the oversight committee in charge of overseeing the Implementation of the Anti-Torture Law. The Committee should establish a database to systematically collect information on the implementation of the Anti-Torture Law including on investigations, prosecutions, access to medical evaluations, acts of reprisals, implementation of the rehabilitation programme and the submission of inventory of all detention centres and facilities under the jurisdiction of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). Furthermore, the Committee should regularly publish status update on cases under consideration and assessments of possible systemic errors identified in the implementation of the Anti-Torture Law. 2. Issue a public governmentment by the President or other high-ranking officials that torture will not be tolerated and that investigations and prosecutions against direct perpetrators and those with command responsibility will be pursued in every case. page 11