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collaborated to develop and put the system in place. These agencies are the National Statistical
Coordination Board (NSCB), the policy making and coordinating body for statistics, the
National Statistics Office (NSO), which conducts the major surveys and gathers key statistics,
and the Statistical Research and Training Center (SRTC) which conducts statistical training
programs. These agencies seek funds or use part of their agency budgets to produce key statistics
and support activities for training statistical offices of line agencies and local governments.
20. Core GAD indicators. With a grant from the Canadian International Development Agency
(CIDA), the NSCB and NSO publish fact sheets presenting sex-disaggregated data on selected
indicators for population, employment, education, health and violence against women. A set of
32 core indicators of the status of women and women’s enjoyment of their rights has been
identified after consultations with government agencies and with civil society. The NSCB
Executive Board issued a Resolution which obliges government statistical agencies to regularly
collect/produce and disseminate sex-disaggregated data.
21. Gender Mainstreaming Evaluation Framework (GMEF). GMEF, an NCRFW publication cited in
“A Guide to Gender Mainstreaming: How Far Have We Gone?” tracks the progress government
agencies have made with gender mainstreaming, and provides the framework that could guide
any agency in designing its gender mainstreaming strategy. Developed based on the decade-long
experience of the Philippines in gender mainstreaming, GMEF systematizes what were once
mere experiments and improvisations. It looks into the financial and human resources allotted
for gender mainstreaming and gender-sensitive programs, projects and activities; and the overall
capacity of the agency and its personnel for gender-responsive planning, implementation,
monitoring and assessment. NCRFW uses GMEF to monitor compliance by government
agencies on gender mainstreaming, including the policy to allocate five percent of agency budget
for gender mainstreaming.
22. Tracking specific gender issues
a. NSCB coordinated the project to generate statistics on violence against women and children
(VAWC). The project produced the following: (a) Glossary and related concepts to promote
common understanding and interpretation of statistics on VAWC; (b) Statistical Handbook on
VAWC containing data on the prevalence of VAWC; (c) Statistical Framework for VAWC
envisioned to provide an efficient methodology to generate statistics; and (d) Assessment of
the Existing Administrative Reporting System on VAWC, which provides a basis for
integrating efforts among concerned agencies to ensure the generation of VAWC data on a
regular basis. It seeks to systematize the manner with which the various government agencies
collect and handle the records of victims or survivors of VAWC to ensure the tracking of the
status of the cases across the system.
b. NSCB also developed the framework for integrating the full range of paid and unpaid work
of men and women into the national income accounts. NSO pilot tested and finalized the
design and instruments for a national time use survey in order to estimate the economic
contributions of unpaid work. All these are consistent with regional initiatives to advocate
the full integration of men and women’s unpaid work into national policies.
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