CEDAW/C/PHI/4 English Page 7 C. Major policy and programme developments 28. The Philippine Plan for Gender-responsive Development, 1995-2025, is the Philippine Government's 30-year perspective framework for pursuing full equality and development for women and men. It is the successor plan to the Philippine Development Plan for Women, 1989-1992, and is the Government's blueprint for gender mainstreaming. The Plan was approved and adopted by virtue of Executive Order 273 which, inter alia, prescribes that: (a) The Philippine Plan for Gender-responsive Development be the main vehicle for implementing in the Philippines the action commitments made during the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing; (b) All government entities at the national, subnational and local levels implement the Plan; incorporate gender and development concerns in their agency performance commitment contracts indicating key result areas for such concerns as well as in their annual performance report to the President; and incorporate gender and development concerns in agency budget proposals and work and financial plans. 29. The Medium-term Philippine Development Plan, 1993-1998 enunciates priority attention being focused on gender and development in all sectors. 30. The Philippine Human Rights Plan, 1996-2000, which was prepared with the full participation of NCRFW, gives special focus on women's rights as human rights. 31. Among the landmark laws passed by the present Congress are the following: (a) Republic Act 7877, the Anti-Sexual Harassment Act of 1995, which defines and provides for penalizing sexual harassment in the workplace and in an education or training setting; (b) Republic Act 8042, the Magna Carta for overseas contract workers, seeks to institute policies for the welfare of migrant workers, their families, and overseas Filipinos; (c) Republic Act 7882 provides credit assistance to women engaging in micro and cottage business enterprise. 32. Training on gender-responsive planning has been in full swing for the different sectors and agencies and selected regional offices since the start of the NCRFW-CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency) institutional strengthening project. Consequently, agencies have, in varying degrees, initiated implementation and programming for gender and development activities in which the most common problem raised was the lack of additional budget for the implementation of programmes, projects and activities on the subject. In response to this, the following policy issuances were made: (a) Presidential directives relative to budgeting for gender and development; /...