Review of Policy Imperatives On GAD

Policy Imperatives on Gender
and Development (GAD)
RUTHD.JIMENEZ,EdD
ResourceSpeaker
June23,2022
SDO Tarlac City
ATTY. ERIC PAUL D. PERALTA
Assistant Professor,
UPLB Director,
UPLB Gender Center
National GAD Resource Program
Philippine Commission on Women Member, PCW National GAD 1
Resource Program Pool

Webinar Objectives
• At the end of this webinar, the participant is expected to:
1. Know the GAD international and national mandates and

policies to mainstream gender in the respective institution;
2. Learn how these GAD mandates would be aligned to the

thrust and priorities of the given institution;

Philippine Commission on Women
Discussion Points
INTERNATIONA
L
MANDATES
NATIONAL
MANDATE
GAD- S
RELATED
NATIONAL
PLANS
Learning Exercises
• Watch out for the EIGHT (8) TRIVIA QUESTIONS

dispersed in this 2-hour seminar
• For every question, the participant who will provide THE
FIRST CORRECT ANSWER wins a prize from the
Resource Person

What is a policy imperative?

“plan of action adopted or pursued
by an individual, government,
party or business”
- Collins English Dictionary

International Mandates. Convention on
the Elimination of all forms of
Discrimination against Women
(CEDAW)
• Date of Adoption by UN General
Assembly: 19 December 1979
• Date of Institution: 3 December
1981
• Ratified by 189 States at present
(including the Philippines)
• Consists of thirty (30) articles “The international bill of rights
of women”

TRIVIA QUESTION #1:
Which first ASEAN country

ratified the CEDAW on 1981?

ANSWER #1: PHILIPPINES

Importance of CEDAW
Provides a complete definition
of sex-based discrimination
Sex-based discrimination - any
distinction, exclusion, or
restriction on the basis of sex,
which intentionally or
unintentionally nullifies or
impairs the recognition,
enjoyment and exercise of
women’s social, cultural,
political
and economic rights
Importance of CEDAW
Takes a concrete and
three-dimensional view of
equality
 based on the principle of
“substantive equality”
use of the actual conditions
of women’s lives, rather than
the wording used in laws, as
the true measure of
whether equality has been
achieved.
Importance of CEDAW
Legally binds all States
Parties to fulfill, protect and
respect women’s human
rights
gender inequalities must be
addressed at all levels and in
all spheres, including the
family, community, market and
state

Importance of CEDAW
Recognizes that
discrimination is often most
deeply rooted in spheres
of life such as culture,
family and interpersonal
relations

Key difference from other
International Instruments
exclusively devoted the specifics of  the broad
to gender equality, women’s human range of
one of the key right to actions that
elements of the equality and must be taken
Millennium non-
Development Goals to achieve
discrimination are
(MDGs); spelled out in this are
detail; and mapped out;

How is CEDAW
implemented by the
State Parties?

Implementation of CEDAW by State
Parties
Application of the CEDAW Framework to the
development of laws, policies and institutional
planning
 Legislation
 Mainstreaming gender equality in national, economic
and social
planning
 Allocation of resources
 Cooperation with CSOs, the academe, media, etc

TRIVIA QUESTION #2:
What is the only developed

country that has
not ratified
CEDAW?

ANSWER #2: USA

“To advance the goals of equality,
development, and peace for all women
everywhere in the interest of all humanity”
- Beijing Declaration, 1995

International Mandates. Beijing
Platform for Action (BPFA)
• Date of Adoption: 15
September 1995
• Number of countries
that adopted: 189
countries
• Identified twelve (12)
critical areas of concern
“
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m
Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA)
-calls for actions on 12 areas concern affecting women
and girl-children
Women in power & decision-

Women and Poverty
making
Women and Education
Institutional Mechanisms
and Training
Women and Health Human Rights of Women
Violence Against Women Women and Media
Women and Armed

Women and the Environment
Conflict
Women and the The girl-child
Economy
National GAD Re source Program
Importance of BPfA in Gender Mainstreaming
Gender Mainstreaming was explicitly

endorsed as a strategy to ensure that
a gender perspective is reflected in all
policies and programmes at the
national, regional, and international
levels, so that, before decisions are
taken, an analysis is made on the
effects to women and men,
respectively

Strategic objectives and actions
Women and Poverty
• Strategic objective A.1 • Strategic objective A.3.

Review, adopt and maintain Provide women with access to
macroeconomic policies and savings and credit
development strategies that mechanisms and institutions.
address the needs and efforts
of women in poverty.
• Strategic objective A.4.
• Strategic objective A.2.
Develop gender-based
Revise laws and methodologies and conduct
administrative practices to research to address
ensure women's equal rights the feminization of poverty.
and access to economic
resources.
Women and Education
and Training
• Strategic objective B.1 • Strategic objective B.4
Ensure equal access to Develop non-discriminatory
education. education and training.
• Strategic objective • Strategic objective B.5
B.2 Allocate sufficient
Eradicate illiteracy among resources
women. for and monitor the
• Strategic objective B.3 implementation of educational
reforms.
Improve women's access • Strategic objective B.6
to Promote lifelong education
vocational training,
science and training for girls and
and technology,
National GAD Resource Program and women.
continuing education.
Women and Health
• Strategic objective C.1. • Strategic objective C.3.
Increase women's access Undertake gender-sensitive
throughout the life cycle to initiatives that address sexually
appropriate, affordable and transmitted diseases, HIV/AIDS,
quality health care, information and sexual and reproductive
and related services. health issues.
• Strategic objective C.4.
• Strategic objective C.2. Promote research and
Strengthen preventive disseminate information on
programmes that promote women's health.
women's health. • Strategic objective C.5.
Increase resources and monitor
follow-up for women's health.
Violence Against Women
• Strategic objective D.1 • Strategic objective D.3

Take integrated measures to Eliminate trafficking in
prevent and eliminate women and assist victims of
violence against women. violence due to prostitution
• Strategic objective D.2 and trafficking.
Study the causes and
consequences of violence
against women and the
effectiveness of preventive
measures.
Women and Armed
Conflict
• Strategic objective E.1. • Strategic objective E.4.
Increase the participation of women in Promote women's contribution to
conflict resolution at decision-making fostering a culture of peace.
levels and protect women living in
situations of armed and other conflicts • Strategic objective E.5.
or under foreign occupation. Provide protection, assistance and
• Strategic objective E.2. training to refugee women, other
displaced women in need of
Reduce excessive military expenditures international protection and internally
and control the availability of displaced women.
armaments.
• Strategic objective E.3. • Strategic objective E.6.
Provide assistance to the women of
Promote non-violent forms of conflict the colonies and non-self-governing
resolution and reduce the incidence of territories. Actions to be taken.
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Women and the
Economy
• Strategic objective F.1. • Strategic objective F.4.
Promote women's economic rights Strengthen women's economic
and independence, including access capacity and commercial networks.
to employment, appropriate working
conditions and control over • Strategic objective F.5.
economic resources. Eliminate occupational segregation
and all forms of employment
• Strategic objective F.2.
discrimination.
Facilitate women's equal access to
resources, employment, markets • Strategic objective F.6.
and trade. Promote harmonization of work and
family responsibilities for women
• Strategic objective F.3.
and men.
Provide business services,
training
and access to markets,
information
and
Nationaltechnology,
GAD Resource Program particularly to
low-
income women.
Women in power & decision-
making
• Strategic objective G.1. • Strategic objective G.2.
Take measures to ensure Increase women's capacity
women's equal access to to participate in decision-
and full participation in making and leadership.
power structures and
decision-making.

Institutional Mechanisms
• Strategic objective H.1. • Strategic objective H.3.
Create or strengthen Generate and disseminate
national machineries and gender-disaggregated
other governmental bodies. data and information for
• Strategic objective H.2. planning and evaluation
Integrate gender
perspectives in legislation,
public policies, programmes
and projects.
Human Rights of Women
• Strategic objective I.1. • Strategic objective I.2.
Promote and protect the Ensure equality and non-
human rights of women, discrimination under the
through the full law and in practice.
implementation of all
human rights instruments,
especially the Convention on • Strategic objective I.3.
the Elimination of All Forms Achieve legal literacy.
of Discrimination against
Women.
Women and Media
• Strategic objective J.1. • Strategic objective J.2.
Increase the participation Promote a balanced and
and access of women to non-stereotyped portrayal of
expression and decision- women in the media.
making in and through the
media and new technologies
of communication.

Women and the Environment
•Strategic objective K.1. • Strategic objective K.3.
Involve women actively in Strengthen or establish
environmental decision- mechanisms at the national,
making at all levels. regional, and international
• Strategic objective levels to assess the impact
K.2. of development and
environmental policies on
Integrate gender concerns women.
and perspectives in policies
and programmes for
sustainable development.
The girl-child
• Strategic objective L.1. • Strategic objective L.5.

Eliminate all forms of discrimination Eliminate discrimination against girls in health
against the girl-child. and nutrition.
• Strategic objective L.2. • Strategic objective L.6.
Eliminate negative cultural attitudes Eliminate the economic exploitation of child
labor and protect young girls at work.
and
practices against girls. • Strategic objective L.7.
• Strategic objective L.3. Eradicate violence against the girl-child.
Promote and protect the rights of the • Strategic objective L.8.
girl- Promote the girl-child's awareness of and
child and increase awareness of her participation in social, economic and political
needs life.
and potential. • Strategic objective L.9.
• Strategic objective L.4. Strengthen the role of the family in improving
Eliminate discrimination against the status of the girl-child.
girls in
education, skills
National GAD Resource Program development and
training.
TOP PRIORITIES for 2020-
2025
1. Quality education, training and life-long
learning for women and girls
2. Access to affordable quality healthcare
3. Right to Work and Rights at Work
4. Eliminating Violence against women and

girls
5. Gender-responsive approaches in
emergency
situation
6. Strengthening women’s participation in
ensuring
TRIVIA QUESTION #3:
During the World Conference on

Women in 1995, who gave this
famous line?
“Human rights are women’s rights
and women’s rights are human
rights”
ANSWER #3: HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON/
HILLARY R. CLINTON

International Mandates. Millenium
Development Goals (MDGs) to
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

MDGs SDGs
8 Goals 17 Goals
18 Targets 169 Targets
48 Indicators 230 Indicators
Covers developing countries Covers all countries
2000-2015 Implementation 2016-2030 Implementation

Timeframe Timeframe
Focused on Poverty Focused on global
Reduction development with-and for-
Philippine Commission on Women sustainability
Target: To eliminate gender
disparity in primary and
secondary education by
2005, and in all levels of
education by 2015
CEDAW BPFA MDGs & SDGs
Treaty Resolution Resolution
Adopted on September 2000

Adopted on 19 December Adopted on 15 September (MDGs)
1979 & Instituted on 3 1995 Adopted on September 2015
December 1981 (SDGs)
Adopted by 189 countries

Ratified by 189 Countries Adopted by 189 countries (MDGs)
Adopted by 193 countries
(SDGs)
MDGs consist of eight (8)

Consists of thirty (30) articles Addresses twelve (12) critical goals
areas of concern SDGs consist of seventeen
Philippine Commission on Women (17) goals
TRIVIA QUESTION #4:
In what country were the 1 7 SDGs

adopted?

ANSWER #4: USA

TRIVIA QUESTION #5:
The 2030 Development Agenda

consists of how many paragraphs?

ANSWER #5: 92 paragraphs

National Mandates. The Philippine
Constitution
“The State recognizes the role of

women in nation building and
Sec 14, Art II
shall ensure the fundamental
equality before the law of
women and men.”

National Mandates. Women in
Development and Nation Building Act
(RA 7192)
“The State shall provide women rights and opportunities equal
to that of men. To attain the foregoing policy:
(1) A substantial portion of official development assistance
funds received from foreign governments and multilateral
agencies and organizations shall be set aside and utilized
by the agencies concerned to support programs and
activities for women;
(2) All government departments shall ensure that women
benefit equally and participate directly in the
development programs and projects of said department,
RA 7192 those funded under official foreign development assistance,
specifically
to ensure the full participation and involvement of women
in the development process; and
(3) All government departments and agencies shall review
and
revise all their regulations, circulars, issuances and
procedures to remove gender bias therein.
National Mandates. The Magna
Carta of Women (RA 9710)
The Magna Carta of Women (MCW)
is a comprehensive women’s
human rights law that seeks to
eliminate discrimination through the
recognition, protection, fulfillment,
and promotion of the rights of
Filipino women, especially those
belonging in the marginalized sectors
of the society
Chapter VI: Institutional Mechanisms
Gender Mainstreaming as a strategy to implement the

MCW (Sec. 36)
- all government agencies, offices, bureaus,

instrumentalities, SUCs, GOCCs, and LGUs shall pursue
the ADOPTION OF GENDER MAINSTREAMING AS A
STRATEGY to promote and fulfill women's human rights
and eliminate gender discrimination in their systems,
structures, policies, programs, processes, and procedures
Essential Features

Essential Features
Increasing the number of Provision for equal
women in third level
positions in government to access and
achieve a fifty-fifty (50-50) elimination of
gender balance within the discrimination in
next five years while the
composition of women in all education,
levels of development scholarships, and
planning and program
implementation will be at training.
least 40 percent;

Essential Features

Essential Features
Non-discrimination in Leave benefits of two (2)
employment in the field of months with full pay based
military, police and other on gross monthly
similar services that
include according the same compensation for women
promotional privileges and employees who undergo
opportunities as their men surgery caused by
counterpart, including pay gynecological disorders,
increases, additional provided that they have
benefits, and awards, rendered continuous
based on competency and
quality of performance. aggregate employment service
of at least six (6) months for
National GAD Resource Program the last twelve (12) months;
Essential Features
 Non-discriminatory and  Equal status given to
non-derogatory portrayal of
women in media and men and women on
film to raise the the titling of the land
consciousness of the
general public in and issuance of
recognizing the dignity of stewardship
women and the role and
contribution of women in contracts and
family, community, and the patents
society through the
strategic use of mass
media

Essential Features
• MCW mandates (a) planning,
budgeting, monitoring and
evaluation for gender and
development, (b) the creation
and/or strengthening of
gender and development focal
points, and (c) the generation
and maintenance of gender
statistics and sex-
disaggregated databases to
aid in planning, programming
and policy formulation
“At least five percent (5%) of the total
agency or LGU budget
appropriations shall correspond to
activities supporting GAD Plans and
Programs”
-Sec. 37 (1)(c), IRR of RA 9710

“NGAs and LGUs and other
government instrumentalities shall
ensure that five to thirty percent (5- 30%)
of funds received from foreign
governments and multilateral agencies
are in support of gender-responsive
programs and projects.”

- Sec. 37 (2), IRR of RA 9710
Policy Imperatives on GAD Planning and
Budgeting
JC 2012-01 JMC 2013-01 JMC 2016-01
For NGAs, SUCs, GOCCs and For LGUs Amendments to some

other government instrumentalities
provisions of JMC 2013-01
PCW is mandated to review the GAD Plans and

Budgets (GPBs) submitted by the different line
Philippine Commission on Women departments and or agencies
JMCs 2012-01,
1987 Constitution RA 7192 & RA 9710 2013-01 & 2016-01
Supreme law of the land Acts of Congress Executive Issuance
Foundation of all laws – Covers every person/entity Covers the concerned

covers every Filipino residing/sojourn in the agencies part of the MC
Philippines
Binding as law Binding as law Binding as law

TRIVIA QUESTION #6:
When was RA 9710 signed into

law?

ANSWER #6: August 14, 2009

GAD-related plans and guidelines
The PPGD lays out development
goals and strategies that will
make gender equity innate in
public programs and policies.
This 30-year perspective plan
ensures that women-friendly
policies can take root and
flourish despite the barriers
posed by traditional attitudes
Philippine Commission on Women and stereotyping.
Policies & Strategies to Implement
the Plan
 General Policy Framework
Mainstreaming GAD as a Collective
Responsibility
Fostering greater GO-NGO/Private Sector
Collaboration in GAD Efforts

the Plan
 Specific policies and strategies
Systematization of Approaches to Integrating GAD Concerns
into the National, Agency and LGU Planning and Development
Processes
Formulation by each agency of an Action Plan on GAD
Mainstreaming & Institutionalization, integration of the action
plan into the agency implementation plan
Formulation of guidelines on GAD institutionalization in the
planning, programming, budgeting and implementation
processes
 GAD strategic planning workshops/training

the Plan
Creation and Strengthening of Organizational
Mechanisms to catalyze GAD mainstreaming
 Periodic assessment of the NCRFW (PCW)
Establishment of GFPS at the regional and sub-
regional levels
 Upgrading the technical capability of GFPS
Transferring responsibility for GAD mainstreaming
from the GFPS to the agency as a whole

the Plan
Advocacy and training to advance the GAD approach
to Development
 Advocacy to advance conceptual and operational knowledge of
the
GAD approach
 Expansion of advocacy, social mobilization and IEC efforts for
gender-responsive development
 Utilization of multimedia for GAD advocacy
 Continuing training in gender sensitivity and gender-responsive
development planning and trainer’s training
 Preparation of sector-specific training modules
 Incorporation of GAD concerns into the training modules of
training institutions
 Promotion
National GAD Resource Program of GAD objectives through the educational and
academic institutions
the Plan
 Resource Mobilization for GAD
Institutionalization of mainstream budgeting for
PPGD implementation at all levels
Ensuring increased allocation of local and
foreign financial resources towards
mainstreaming gender concerns in development
Encourage private sector investment in gender-
responsive programs and projects
the Plan
Institutionalization/Strengthening of Database for
Gender Advocacy, Planning and Monitoring
 Institutionalization of the generation, processing and
dissemination of sex-disaggregated data/information
 Development and continuous refinement of a
gender-responsive
database and indicator system
 Mobilization of various sectors/agencies in the
identification and
development of gender-responsive indicators

TRIVIA QUESTION #7:
What is the Executive Order,

signed by Pres. FVR that approved
and adopted PPGD 1995-2025?

ANSWER #7: Executive Order No. 273

Gender Equality and Women’s
Empowerment (GEWE) Plan 2019-
2025
GEWE Plan has Compendium of Indicators for

Monitoring and Evaluation of GEWE in the
Philippines. Compendium presents a menu of
GEWE indicators in various sectoral and
thematic areas of concerns in the Philippines.
• Key reference in formulating Gender and

Development (GAD) Agenda.
• Complements the PPGD

 The Gender Equality and Women’s
Empowerment (GEWE) Plan 2019-2025
covers four years of the Philippine
Development Plan (PDP) 2017-2022,
and the remaining years of the
Philippine Plan for Gender-
Responsive Development (PPGD)
1995-2025

Philippine Development Plan
2017-2022
The Philippine Development Plan (PDP)

2017-2022 is the first medium-term plan to
be anchored on the 0-10 point
Socioeconomic Agenda and is geared
towards the Ambisyon Natin 2040 which
articulates the Filipino people’s collective
vision of a MATATAG, MAGINHAWA, AT
PANATAG NA BUHAY PARA SA LAHAT. It
also takes into account the country’s
international commitments such as the 2030
Sustainable Development Goals.

Philippine Development Plan
2017-2022
Gender equality and empowerment of all women and girls, is integrated in 12 of
the 20 Chapters of the Philippine Development Plan (PDP) 2017-2022. Gender
Perspective is reflected in the strategic framework of each PDP Chapter as well as
the strategies to implement the SDGs.
Chapters
5: Ensuring People-centered clean and efficient 10: Accelerating Human Capital Development
governance
6: Pursuing swift and fair administration of 11: Reducing vulnerability of individuals and
justice families
7: Promoting Philippine culture and values 12: Building safe and secure communities
8: Expanding economic opportunities, 13: Reaching for the demographic dividend
agriculture, forestry and fisheries
9: Expanding economic opportunities in industry 17: Attaining just and lasting peace
and service through Trabaho and Negosyo
TRIVIA QUESTION #8:
What is the Executive Order,

signed by Pres. Duterte, adopting
AmBisyon 2040?

ANSWER #8: Executive Order No. 5

Synthesis
• Policy Imperatives on GAD exist, have binding effect
as law and must be complied with, as non-
performance thereof merit liabilities;
• Gender Mainstreaming is well entrenched into the
international and national policies and reflected in the
national plans and agenda;
• GAD mandates of the respective institutions must
be aligned with the corresponding policy
imperatives;

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Policy Imperatives on Gender

and Development (GAD)

Resource Program Pool

1. Know the GAD international and national mandates and

2. Learn how these GAD mandates would be aligned to the

National GAD Resource Program

• Watch out for the EIGHT (8) TRIVIA QUESTIONS

National GAD Resource Program

National GAD Resource Program

- Collins English Dictionary

National GAD Resource Program

National GAD Resource Program

Which first ASEAN country

National GAD Resource Program

National GAD Resource Program

National GAD Resource Program

National GAD Resource Program

National GAD Resource Program

National GAD Resource Program

National GAD Resource Program

What is the only developed

National GAD Resource Program

National GAD Resource Program

- Beijing Declaration, 1995

National GAD Resource Program

Women in power & decision-

Women and Health Human Rights of Women

Violence Against Women Women and Media

Women and Armed

Gender Mainstreaming was explicitly

National GAD Resource Program

• Strategic objective A.1 • Strategic objective A.3.

• Strategic objective D.1 • Strategic objective D.3

National GAD Resource Program

National GAD Resource Program

• Strategic objective L.1. • Strategic objective L.5.

2. Access to affordable quality healthcare

3. Right to Work and Rights at Work

4. Eliminating Violence against women and

During the World Conference on

National GAD Resource Program

National GAD Resource Program

18 Targets 169 Targets

48 Indicators 230 Indicators

Covers developing countries Covers all countries

2000-2015 Implementation 2016-2030 Implementation

Treaty Resolution Resolution

Adopted on September 2000

Adopted by 189 countries

MDGs consist of eight (8)

In what country were the 1 7 SDGs

National GAD Resource Program

National GAD Resource Program

The 2030 Development Agenda

National GAD Resource Program

National GAD Resource Program

“The State recognizes the role of

National GAD Resource Program

Gender Mainstreaming as a strategy to implement the

- all government agencies, offices, bureaus,

National GAD Resource Program

National GAD Resource Program