The first ever National Domestic Workers Summit held at the Skyline Riverbend Hotel, in Marikina City last September 21-23, 2005. This is a summary of the discussion among 200 local and migrant (overseas) domestic workers, in consultation with more than 100 social partners from the civil society and religious sector, government, employers� groups and recruitment agencies. For more details, contact the Visayan Forum Foundation, summit convenor, at [email protected].

1. Immediate passage of the Batas Kasambahay with the aim of uplifting and giving decency to the standards that will protect domestic workers’ labor rights. 
2. Strengthen and clarify the Appropriate Mechanisms to monitor the condition of domestic workers inside the private households of their employers. 
3. Safe Migration, to seriously and comprehensively do continuous orientation on migration realities for those planning to work as domestic worker.  
4. Attack Trafficking by monitoring recruitment industry and undocumented migrants, and hotspots and entry-exit points. Make the domestic workers an urgent priority in anti-trafficking activities.  
5. Prioritize the Right to Education, especially for child domestic workers. 
6. Draft a Comprehensive Training, Livelihood, and Reintegration Programs for domestic workers. 
7. Towards Social Protection, there is a need for immediate strengthening of government programs & network of services by civil society and introduce them inside and outside the country.  
8. Include Families of Domestic Workers to Access Services. Give important attention, especially the OWWA, on migration effects to the children and families of the migrants who are mostly domestic workers. 
9. Immediately declare one-day as Domestic Workers’ Day (Araw ng mga Kasambahay), for all Filipino domestic workers, here and abroad that will recognize them as a sector. 
10. Include Domestic Work in the Philippine Decent Work Agenda.