Sectoral Gender Issues for GAD

Planning and Budgeting

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 What is a Gender Issue?
Gender Issue Defined
 refers to problems and concerns that arise
from the unequal status of women and men,
including the differential characteristics, roles
and expectations attributed by society to
women and men
 Identified through a review of flagship or
regular programs, conduct of gender analysis
of SDD or relevant information or may be
emerging
 Steps to Gender Analysis
1. Surface the differential situation of men
and women
2. Identify the differential roles and
responsibilities of men and women
3. Analyze the differential access to
resources of men and women
4. Analyze the differential impact of
programs or project interventions to men
and women
 Types of Gender Issues
Client-Focused Gender Issue
 refers to concerns arising from the unequal
status of women and men stakeholders of a
particular agency or LGU including the
extent of their disparity over benefits from
and contribution to a policy/program
and/or project of the agency or LGU
 Types of Gender Issues
Organization-Focused Gender Issue
 Points to the gap/s in the capacity of an
organization to integrate a gender
dimension in its programs, systems or
structure
 Points to Consider
 Women’s issues are not automatically gender
issues; some may also pertain to men
Gender issues that are already addressed may
recur especially if elements that were once in
place changes or becomes obsolete
Gender issues may take a long time to be
addressed, hence it may be repeated in the
GAD Plans and Budgets of agencies and LGUs
 Sample Organization-Focused Gender Issues
POLICIES AND PLANS STRATEGIC INTERVENTIONS

 GAD is not yet mainstreamed in  Formulation of a GAD Agenda

the strategic plan/sectoral plan of or Strategic Framework/GAD
the agency/LGU Code for LGUs

 Lack of policy on the use of  Issuance of policies to enjoin

gender-fair language and images use of gender-fair language and
images
 Review and revision of policies,
plans and IEC materials to
integrate gender fair messages
and images
 Sample Organization-Focused Gender
Issues
PEOPLE STRATEGIC INTERVENTIONS

 Lack of/low level of capacity of  Conduct of capacity building

GAD Focal Point System (GFPS) on GAD for GFPS members,
system members to mainstream management and employees
GAD in the organization of the organization

 Lack of knowledge and skills of the * Specific capacity development

management and/or employees sessions should be informed
on GAD by the results of a training
needs assessment of target
audience
 Sample Organization-Focused Gender
Issues
ENABLING MECHANISMS
 Absence of sex-disaggregated data or
gender statistics that can be used as
basis for the formulation of PAPs for
employees
 Lack of facilities or mechanisms to
address practical needs of female and
male employees (e.g. daycare/lactation
room/separate billeting)
 Lack of mechanisms to handle cases of
Sexual Harassment within the
agency/LGU
STRATEGIC INTERVENTIONS
 Establishment of GAD Database with
sex disaggregated data and information
 Collection and analysis of GAD related
indicators
 Setting aside of a room/construction of
a room to serve as daycare/lactation
room or separate barracks for women
employees/employees with small
children
 Conduct capacity building for the
members of the Committee of
Decorum and Investigation (CODI)
 Sample Organization-Focused
Gender Issues
PAPs STRATEGIC INTERVENTIONS

 Lack of consultation with women or men  Conduct of consultations among all

employees in HRMD undertakings, employees to ensure their
decision-making structures and processes participation in the decision-making
within the organization and processes within an
organization

 Lack of assessment on the gender-  Conduct of workshop among GFPS

responsiveness of an agency/LGU and program implementers on the
programs application of gender analysis tools
such as the HGDG
 Client-Focused Gender Issues
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SECTOR
•DTI, DOLE, TESDA, DA, DAR, CFO, POEA, PCFC, DOF, DFA and LGUs
Formal Labor  Low participation of women in
paid employment
 Vulnerabilities of employed
women due to lack of security
of tenure, unequal wages, SH,
etc.
 Conduct of consultations to
come up with policies to
addressing security of tenure
and equalizing wages of men
and women employees
 Provision of livelihood training
programs integrated with
gender perspective for women
would-be entrepreneurs
 Client-Focused Gender Issues
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SECTOR
DTI, DOLE, TESDA, DA, DAR, CFO, POEA, PCFC, DOF, DFA and LGUs
Migrant  High Vulnerability of women
Workers migrant workers to exploitation
due to:
a. Trafficking in persons
b. Feminization of migration
c. Return and reintegration
concerns for distressed
women OFWs
 Initiation of investment-friendly
policies, systems, programs and
procedure for returning migrant
workers
 Provision of technical assistance
and supporting financial
arrangements to returning women
migrant workers
 Forging of bilateral and
multilateral labor agreements to
ensure safe migration and better
work conditions to curb VAW
migrant workers
 Client-Focused Gender Issues
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SECTOR
DTI, DOLE, DOST, TESDA, DA, DAR, CFO, POEA, PCFC, DOF, DFA and LGUs
Informal  Exposure of women to
Economies occupational safety and health
and Micro, hazards
Small and  Lack of women’s social
Medium preparation and technical skills
Enterprises for entrepreneurship
 Lack of representation of
women in governance and
decision-making structures
 Conduct of inspections to
selected establishments to
ensure implementation of OSH
standards
 Continuous provision support
services to women
entrepreneurs such as skills
training, market linkaging,
assistance on packaging and
labeling, etc.
 Conduct of Women in
Leadership Trainings
 Client-Focused Gender Issues
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SECTOR
DTI, DOLE, DOST, TESDA, DA, DAR, CFO, POEA, PCFC, DOF, DFA and LGUs
Agriculture,  Lack of data on women farmers  Hiring of IT personnel to sex-
Fisheries and and fisherfolks disaggregate data for women
Forestry  Limited participation and farmers and fisherfolks
representation of women in  Conduct of capability building
decision-making for LGUs to include women
 Lack of gender-responsive farmers and fisherfolks in
technologies that can be decision-making at the
equally utilized by men and grassroots level
women farmers and fisherfolks  Provision of gender-responsive
technologies
 Client-Focused Gender Issues
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SECTOR
NAPC, DSWD, DepED, KWF, CHED, DOH, PopCom, HUDC, PAGIBIG, BuCor, NCIP, NCMF,
PhilHealth, GSIS, SSS, PCUP, SUCs and Hospitals

Health and  Persistence of high maternal  Conduct of Buntis Congress

Nutrition mortality rate due to especially in remote areas to
inadequate health services and ensure provision of pre-natal
lack of access to RH services services to pregnant women
and information
 High prevalence of malnutrition  Provision of iron supplements
and iron-deficiency anemia for pregnant women
among pregnant women and
girls
 Lack of gender responsiveness  Conduct training for health
of health service providers, service providers on the
particularly in dealing with poor gender-responsive handling of
women and girl patients patients especially for poor
women and girl patients
 Client-Focused Gender Issues
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SECTOR
NAPC, DSWD, DepED, KWF, CHED, DOH, PopCom, HUDCC, PAGIBIG, BuCor, NCIP, NCMF,
PhilHealth, GSIS, SSS, PCUP, SUCs and Hospitals
Education  Underperformance of boys in
key education indicators
compared to girls
 Marked gender-segregation in
higher education
 Gender biases and stereotypes
embedded in curricula, and
instructional materials,
 Vulnerability of women and
girls to sexual harassment
 Vulnerability of female students
and faculty members to
expulsion during cases of
pregnancy outside of marriage
 Development of a gender-
sensitive curriculum and
gender-fair instructional
materials
 Conduct GAD capdev for all
educational institutions
 Provision of scholarship
programs for marginalized
women and girls
 Conduct of advocacy campaigns
to encourage enrollment of
women in non-traditional skills
in vocational and tertiary levels
 Client-Focused Gender Issues
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SECTOR

NAPC, DSWD, DepED, KWF, CHED, DOH, PopCom, HUDCC, PAGIBIG, BuCor, NCIP, NCMF,
PhilHealth, GSIS, SSS, PCUP, SUCs and Hospitals

Housing  Design of current housing for  Conduct monitoring visits to

low-income groups may be
contributory to gender-based
violence
 Women from low-income and
informal settler communities
are unorganized and not
consulted on decisions involving
housing
check the current housing for
low-income groups
 Conduct of consultation of
women and involve them in
community planning and
development
 Client-Focused Gender Issues
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SECTOR
NAPC, DSWD, DepED, KWF, CHED, DOH, PopCom, HUDCC, PAGIBIG, BuCor, NCIP, NCMF,
PhilHealth, GSIS, SSS, PCUP, SUCs, Hospitals and LGUs
Vulnerable  Women and Girls with Disabilities  Provision of the following services
Groups -Lack of access to justice among for WEDC and their families: (1)
WGWD victims of gender-based and temporary and protective custody; (2)
sexual violence medical and dental services; (3)
 Women in Detention psychological and psychiatric
-Exposure of women inmates to evaluation; (4) counseling and Critical
physical and gender-related violence Stress Debriefing (CISD); (5) legal
 Women Senior Citizens services; (6) productivity, skills,
- Poor women senior citizens lacking capability building, and/or livelihood
in social protection and needing assistance; (7) education; (8) job
special attention placement; (9) financial assistance;
 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and and (10) transportation assistance
Transgender (LGBT) People
- Discrimination of LGBTs based on
their sexual orientation and gender
identity and expression
 Client-Focused Gender Issues
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SECTOR
NAPC, DSWD, DepED, KWF, CHED, DOH, PopCom, HUDCC, PAGIBIG, BuCor, NCIP, NCMF,
PhilHealth, GSIS, SSS, PCUP, SUCs, Hospitals and LGUs
Indigenous/  Absence of SDD and gender  Collection of sex-disaggregated
Muslim statistics on IP Women and profiling of IP and Muslim
Women and Muslim W&Gs communities
Girls  Prevalence of cultural practices  Conduct of consultation
that may hinder women and workshops to involve IP Women
girls from accessing their rights and Girls and Muslim Women in
and achieving full human Girls in the design,
potential implementation and M&E of the
 Limited participation of agency/LGU programs
IP/Muslim women and girls to  Conduct of advocacy campaigns
decision-making and policy- such as Fun Run to Stop
making processes Discrimination against Muslim
Women
 Client-Focused Gender Issues
SECURITY, JUSTICE AND PEACE
DOJ, PNP, DND, OPAPP, CHR, BJMP, Congress (HOR and SOP), the Judicial Courts and
LGUs
Protection  Existence of Philippine laws with  Conduct of consultations
and Access to provisions that discriminate among women’s groups and
Justice against women (e.g. pertinent legislators regarding repealing
provisions of the Revised Penal of discriminatory laws on
Code) women (e.g. Revised Penal
 Remaining challenges in the Code)
implementation of a  Monitoring the establishment
comprehensive state response to and conduct of capacity
violence against women and development for LCAT VAWC
trafficking in persons members
 Client-Focused Gender Issues
SECURITY, JUSTICE AND PEACE
DOJ, PNP, DND, OPAPP, CHR, BJMP, Congress (HOR and SOP), the Judicial Courts and
LGUs
Peace and  Vulnerability of women and girls
Security in conflict-affected communities
to sexual and gender-based
violence
 Limited participation of women
and girls to decision-making and
policy-making processes during
armed conflict situations
 Establishment of women
friendly spaces (WFS) in
evacuation centers for women
in conflict-areas
 Conduct of information drives,
lectures and fora for women
and children in armed conflict
situations
 Appointment of a woman
representative as part of the
LGU response team in areas
with armed conflict
 Client-Focused Gender Issues
CLIMATE CHANGE, ADAPTATION AND MANAGEMENT
DENR, CCC, DND-OCD/NDRRMC, DOST-PAGASA/PHILVOCS and LGUs
Environment,  Women’s limited awareness of
Biodiversity, their roles in environmental
Climate management and climate
Change and change adaptation strategies
Disaster Risk  Differential needs and issues of
Reduction women and men are not yet
considered in policies and
programs on environmental
management, biodiversity
conservation and climate
change resilience plans and
programs
 Development of gender-
responsive IEC materials for
community-based orientations
on disaster mitigation and
preparedness
 Review of existing local DRRM
plan to ensure gender-
responsiveness
 Conduct of HGDG training,
especially the use of the DRRM
checklist for the GFPS members
 Client-Focused Gender Issues
GOOD GOVERNANCE SECTOR
DBM, COA, DILG, NEDA, PCW, CSC, CESB, PMS, NCCA, PCOO, COMELEC
and LGUs
Empowerm  Lack of gender balance in  Establishment of a roster
ent and third level positions of women eligible for
Gender  Absence or lack of managerial executive
Equality in baseline information for positions in government
the Civil monitoring the fulfillment  Conduct of review of
Service of employee welfare and policies on recruitment
implementation of and selection, qualifying
mandated benefits and examinations,
entitlements assignments of posts and
missions
 Client-Focused Gender Issues
GOOD GOVERNANCE SECTOR
DBM, COA, DILG, NEDA, PCW, CSC, CESB, PMS, NCCA, PCOO, COMELEC and LGUs
Politics and  Lack of women’s meaningful  Conduct research on “Women’s
Governance participation in elective Votes”
positions and other decision-  Conduct of capacity building
making bodies activities for women elected
 Lack of electoral mechanisms to officials
guarantee gender balance in
political and decision-making
positions
 Client-Focused Gender Issues
GOOD GOVERNANCE SECTOR
DBM, COA, DILG, NEDA, PCW, CSC, CESB, PMS, NCCA, PCOO, COMELEC and LGUs
Culture, Arts,  Derogatory portrayal of women  Trainings on gender equality
and Popular in popular media for media organizations
Media  Conduct of parent/children
workshop on pornographic
and violent TV programs
 Conduct of special
exhibits/film showing/art
displays showcasing women
artists
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