Towards Gender Responsive
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
SYSTEM
Sessions Objectives
• Explain and Discuss Gender
Mainstreaming Framework and
Practices as a strategy to implement
MCW
• Discuss the role of the GAD Focal Point
System
Gender Mainstreaming:
Framework and Practices
… towards bridging the
GAP of GENDER EQUALITY
Bridging the gender inequality gap
• Gender equality entails
– equipping men and women of different gender
identities with equal access to capabilities;
– Providing the freedom to choose opportunities that
improve individual lives.
• Means that women and men have equal access
to resources and rights
– Does not imply sameness in all things,
– but equality in entitlements and capabilities.
• Every person has the “freedom to do and to be.”
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© A.T.Torres, May 2011
Gender and
Development:
Overview
What is GAD Mainstreaming?
• Processes and
strategies to ensure
the recognition of
gender issues on a
sustained basis
• Assessment of the
implications for men
and women of policies,
ordinances, programs
and projects of the
agency
What is GAD Mainstreaming?
• Inclusion of a gender perspective
in the design and implementation
of plans and programs to carry
out agency mandates
• Allocating adequate logistics for
the conduct of gender-responsive
activities in the regular programs.
Gender Equality
GOAL: make gender
equality as a
fundamental value in
development choices
and institutional
practice
GAD Mainstreaming
How to do Gender Mainstreaming
Requires changes in 2 dimensions
• Internal – changes within organizations to embrace the goals
and values of GM and to alter systems and procedures to
meet these goals
• External – changes in development operation i.e. in the
design, implementation and evaluation including influencing
goals, strategies, resource allocation, providing specialized
gender technical inputs
(Mehra & Gupta, 2006)
ODA (loans, grants)
PROGRAMS
-- Projects
PS
CO
MOOE
Gender-responsive
services,
programs and
projects
GENDER
MAINSTREAMING
GAD
AGENDA
OPERATIONS
Regular/
Routine
activities
AGENCY BUDGET
GAD Budget
GS/R activities*
RESULTS?
GAA
GAD BUDGET
*Integrated activities to make operations, programs and projects responsive to the gender concerns of women
and men, and relevant gender issues
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Chapter VI: Institutional
Mechanisms
Gender Mainstreaming as a strategy to implement
the Magna Carta of Women (Sec. 37)
– Assessment and if necessary, modification of the gender
mainstreaming program to ensure that it will be an
effective strategy for implementing the MCW
– All government agencies, offices, bureaus,
instrumentalities, SUCs, GOCCs and LGUs shall pursue the
adoption of GM as a strategy to promote and fulfill
women’s human rights and eliminate gender
discrimination in their systems, structures, policies,
programs and processes.
RULE VI. INSTITUTIONAL MECHANISMS
• SECTION 37 . Gender Mainstreaming as a Strategy
for Implementing the Magna Carta of Women
– Creation and/or Strengthening of the GAD Focal Points
(GFPs) – All government departments including …SUCs, …
shall establish or strengthen their GFP System …to catalyze
and accelerate gender mainstreaming..
– The head of agencies ..shall sign appropriate issuances to
institutionalize the creation of the GFP..
– The tasks and functions of the members of the GFP shall
form part of their regular key result areas and shall be
given due consideration in their performance evaluation.
• GAD Database – All departments, including
…SUCs…shall develop and maintain a GAD
database containing GAD information to
include gender statistics and age- and sexdisaggregated data that have been
systematically produced/gathered, regularly
updated to serve as inputs or bases for
planning, programing, and policy formulation.
GAD Competency Building
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Gender Sensitivity
Sessions/Trainings
Gender Analysis and Tools for
GA
Gender Mainstreaming Tools
GAD Planning and Budgeting
Harmonized Gender and
Development Guidelines
Issue Specific Training Sessions
Understanding and Implementing GPB
(as a means to implement the MCW)
JC: 3.1 Agencies shall formulate their annual GAD plans and
budgets within the context of their mandate and overall plans and
programs including those that concern organizational
development.
-The annual GAD plan and budget shall be guided by the desired
outcomes and goals embodied in the MCW, PPGD 1995-2025,
Women’s Empowerment and Development toward Gender
Equality (WEDGE 2012-2016) Plan and other term plans for
gender and development, the CEDAW and other relevant laws
and international commitments.
Measuring Progress in
Implementation
• PCW as oversight for monitoring implementation
• Development of the M&E indicator system
> gender mainstreaming indicators
(institutional mechanism provisions)
>women empowerment indicators (substantive
and sectoral provisions)
Women’s empowerment and gender equality
ULTIMATE
Women’s social development and access to justice
Women’s economic empowerment
Gender responsive governance and women’s participation
in decision making
INTERMEDIATE
Women benefit from gender responsive PPAs
NGAs and LGUs formulate, plan, implement, monitor and
evaluate gender responsive policies, plans and programs
on a sustained basis
IMMEDIATE
Enabling mechanisms for GAD are created and functional at the
national and local level (GAD FP, GAD planning and budgeting, GAD
data base and M&E system, GAD Code, etc
 NGA and LGU people are capacitated on GAD
 Women are consulted and they participate in decision making
 Gender responsive policies, plans and programs are in place
Capacitated,
operational GAD
FOCAL POINTS
leading gender
mainstreaming
Gender
equality
and women’s
empowerment
Implementation
of GENDER RESPONSIVE LGU
policies, plans,
programs and
services
Gender mainstreaming
Capacity
develop
ment on
GAD
GAD
policy
develop
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GAD
planning
and
budgeting
PartnerGAD
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M&E
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GAD
Support to
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