Measures taken to Recognize the Right for Female Employees to Receive the same Allowances and Benefits as those Granted to Male Employees for the Benefit of their Spouses and Children 874- The laws in force relating to this issue make no distinction between the woman and her employed spouse with regards to the giving of allowances and benefits in favour of their spouses and children. The law gives the man or woman the possibility to initiate the procedure to receive the related family benefits or allowances. It can be said that these instruments are general and impersonal. They are Decree No. 2006/34 of 21 January 2016 bearing on the increase of the amount of family allowances; Decree No. 2016/72 of 15 February 2016 and its annex to fix the rates of social contributions and thresholds for remuneration applicable under various family allowances, insurance for old age, invalidity and death pension, for occupational and diseases managed by NSIF. Sub-Section 2: The Right to Food Security (Art 15) 875- The right to healthy and adequate food is preserved through measures that seek to guarantee women the availability of foodstuff, acceptability and accessibility to food. §1: Guaranteeing Women’s Access to means of Production 876- To enable women, particularly rural women have a means of subsistence and thus be free from hunger, emphasis was laid on granting them access to the main factors of production which are land and means of agricultural production. A: Granting Women Access to Land 877- The principle of equal access to land served as reference for the allocation of lands. In this light, land titles were issued to women on lands either by direct or indirect registration. Thus, in 2015, 8,712 land titles were issued with 4,783 to women. In 2016, 7,476 land titles were issued with 1,930 to women, that is, 25.81%. 878- In 2017, 374 land titles were issued to women by direct registration, 69 through total transfer, 886 by parceling and 6 by change of titles making 1,335 land titles issued to women out of 6,412 total land titles issued. 879- However, there are still cultural barriers to women’s access to land especially in the rural areas where customs still do not allow women to own land. B: Women’s Access to means of Production 880- Within a context marked by significant participation of women in agricultural activities, Government and its partners multiplied actions that sought to ease farming and make inputs available to improve productivity. 881- Gender has been incorporated in development programmes and projects in the agricultural sector. Thus, the main objective of the Rural and Semi-Rural Drinking Water Supply Programme launched in 2013 was to construct water points in rural areas to make this resource available for women. Moreover, Phase II of the Rural Micro-finance Development Support Project launched since 2014 takes gender into consideration by facilitating access to credit for women. In 2016, assessment of the project revealed that 30%of beneficiaries were women in 7 micro-finance institutions. 882- The Agricultural Sector Development Support Programme on its part worked to grant credit to female cooperatives. In 2018, CFAF 1,926,988,141432 was granted out of a forecast 432 About 2,941,967 Euros. 145