Expenses that CAN be

charged to the GAD budget

• PPAs that address GAD issues and GAD mandate
•• Capacity development on GAD;
• Establishment and strengthening of enabling GAD mechanisms ;
• Salaries of agency personnel assigned to GAD PAPs on a full time
basis;
• Time spent by the GFPS and of agency personnel doing GAD–
related work;
• Salaries of police women and men assigned to women’s desks;
• Agency programs to address women’s practical and strategic
needs;
• Consultations conducted by agencies on GAD;
• Payment of professional fees, honoraria and other services for GAD-
related activities;
• IEC activities that support the GAD PAPs and objectives of the
agency.
GAD CHECKLIST FOR
AGRICULTURAL
PROJECTS
 They comprise the distribution of resources (land titles, stewardship
contracts, credit, agricultural inputs);

 Introduction of new or improved production or postproduction

technologies and inputs;

 Improvement of agricultural extension services, including the capacity

of agricultural extension workers;

 Strengthening of agricultural marketing systems; and

 Institutional development, such as the formation of agricultural

producers’ or marketing groups.

 Projects also usually include the capacity development of relevant

offices or units of the Philippine implementing agency in project
development, design, planning, implementation, and monitoring and
evaluation.
GAD CHECKLIST FOR
NATURAL RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT PROJECTS
 Natural resource management projects include social forestry,
community-based, and coastal resource management projects.

The project proposal for such projects should have also

identified the gender issues that relate to the project and the
interventions (strategies and activities) to address these issues.
GAD CHECKLIST FOR
INFRASTRUCTURE
PROJECTS
 Infrastructure projects involve the construction
of facilities, including schools, hospitals, dams,
irrigation structures, and transportation
systems.

 Some result in the involuntary resettlement of

communities or households. Regardless of the
type of infrastructure project, users and
resettled groups are erroneously viewed as an
undifferentiated population, having the same
needs, vulnerabilities, access, and opportunities
to participate in deciding what facilities are
needed where, how they will be maintained, how
much they should cost each user, and the like.
GAD CHECKLIST FOR
MICROFINANCE
PROJECTS
 About 95 percent of microenterprises involve women (NCRFW 2006).
As a consequence, the beneficiaries of microfinance schemes are largely
women. By focusing on women, microfinance programs and MFIs indirectly
address a gender issue in connection with access to credit or financial
resources.

Unlike many banks and financial institutions, which control and

deliver the bulk of financial resources, MFIs do not require collateral such as
real estate or similar properties, which poor women in poverty rarely
possess.

In general, women continue to own a disproportionately low share of

land that they can offer as collateral for a large loan (NCRFW 2004). This
puts them at a great disadvantage in the formal financial and credit markets,
virtually making these markets more inaccessible to women than to men.
microfinance programs three approaches or
“paradigms.”
 First is associated with poverty reduction and the increased wellbeing of families
living in poverty.

 Second is the financial self-sustainability paradigm, which argues that women’s

economic empowerment will result from a “virtuous spiral” that connects access to
savings and credit to increased women’s control over decisions about savings and
credit use, improved economic performance and income of women’s microenterprises,
higher income and greater control over this income by woman entrepreneurs, and
more wage jobs for women.

 Third approach, used by many women NGOs, uses microfinance as an entry point for
promoting gender equality and women’s human rights (Mayoux 1999, n.d.).
 Examples of Expenses that CAN
NOT be charged to the GAD Budget
1. PPAs that are not in the LGU’s DILG-endorsed
original or adjusted GAD plan UNLESS these are
addressing newly emerging gender issue however
to be communicated with the appropriate DILG
unit.
2. Personal services of women employees UNLESS
they are working full time or part time on GAD
PPAs
3. Honoraria for LGU’s GFPS members or other
employees working on their LGU GAD programs.
4. Salaries of casual or emergency employees
UNLESS they are hired to assist in GAD-
related PPAs.

5. Provision of contingency funds or “other

services” of PPAs

6. Purchase of supplies, materials, equipment

and vehicles for the general use of the LGU.
7. The following expenses CAN NOT be
charged to the GAD budget UNLESS they are
justified as clearly addressing a specific
gender issue.

a. Physical, mental and health fitness activities,

including purchase of supplies, materials,
equipment and information dissemination
materials
b. Social, rest and recreation activities
c. Religious activities and implementation of cultural
projects