CEDAW/C/PHL/7-8 35. Gender mainstreaming has also been introduced in the judiciary. The State Party through the Supreme Court’s Committee on Gender Responsiveness in the Judiciary (CGRJ), in partnership with the Philippine Judicial Academy and the Philippin e Judges Association, conducted a series of training programs to improve women ’s access to family courts. The program trained family court judges, clerks of court and interpreters, public prosecutors, public attorneys and representatives from concerned government agencies and civil society organizations involved in child and women service, on women’s legal rights. In Congress, the House Committee on Women and Gender Equality and the Senate Committee on Women, Family Relations and Gender Equality lead the formulation and passage of gender related bills. 36. A home-grown gender mainstreaming tool called the Harmonized Gender and Development Guidelines for Project Development, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation (HGDG) was developed to ensure the gender responsiveness of ODA-assisted programs and to implement the MCW and RA 7192 (Women in Nation Building Act). The HGDG is being used to assess the integration of gender in government programs by both government and ODA partners. The 2009 monitoring on compliance reported that 37% of ODA funds were for gender responsive programs and projects or addressed gender issues. In 2013, 57% of ODA funds supported programs and projects that were gender responsive and gender sensitive. Monitoring the PPGD 37. The Philippine Plan for Gender Responsive Development (PPGD) has consistently been promoted as a reference for government agencies and LGUs in formulating their policies, plans and programs, particularly for those that they include in their annual gender and development plans and budgets (GPBs). Two short term plans, also called “time-slices of the PPGD” — the Framework Plan for Women (2004-2010) and the Women’s EDGE Plan (2013-2016) were formulated to facilitate its operationalization, and to guide PCW ’s monitoring of its implementation. The Women’s EDGE Plan is now being recommended as a reference of government in preparing their annual GAD plans and budgets. 38. An assessment of the PPGD implementation was commissioned in 2009 with financial assistance from UN Women. The assessment aimed to (1) determine whether or not PPGD has served as an effective instrument in addressing the concerns of women for equality and development across six major spheres: individual, family, socio-cultural, economic, political and legal; (2) gauge the extent of implementation of the Plan’s three basic goals that include: [a] establishment of mechanisms/structures for gender-responsive policy and program formulation and implementation, [b] special attention placed on women in special circumstances, and [c] continuing consciousness raising, advocacy and affirmative action; and (3) assess whether or not PPGD has contributed to the attainment of the international commitments of the country, particularly the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) and the CEDAW. 39. The findings relative to the three objectives were summarized as follows: (1) PPGD has indirectly served as an effective instrument in addressing the concerns of women for equality and development, in terms of attaining certain outc omes in six (6) key result areas (KRAs); (2) Enhanced mechanisms for gender responsive policy making and programming are in place such as interagency bodies and civil society organizations working together for gender advocacy; capacity building 15-03079 11/36