CEDAW/C/PHI/Q/6/Add.1 for Action (BPFA) which are closely interrelated and interdependent. Twenty (20) major indicators (with a total of 32 impact indicators), were developed to monitor and assess the state of GAD in the country and show the overall situation of women. These indicators were classified according to the 12 critical areas of concerns in the BPFA as well as on the statistical requirements and standards of the core GAD statistical framework at the macro level. In 2001, the NCRFW introduced the Framework Plan for Women (FPW) which is the short term program of the Arroyo administration during her incumbency. In October 2005, the NSCB Executive Board approved the recommendations of the Inter-agency Committee on Gender Statistics (IACGS) to address data gaps from its latest data assessment of the Core GAD Indicators and the Framework Plan for Women (FPW) Indicators. In Resolution No. 12, the National Statistical Coordinating Board directed thirteen (13) agencies to come up with action plans to address data gaps and ensure availability of required data and statistics for monitoring the progress on the status of Filipino women. While the Core GAD Indicators are used to monitor the changes in the over-all status of the Filipino women in the long term, the FPW indicators are essentially additional indicators that monitor the changes in the situation of the Filipino women in the short term as well as the progress of government interventions to address gender issues at the program level. When used alongside each other, both indicator sets complement data requirements and information needs in showing the state of Filipino women and determining development areas and gaps. The NSCB has started compiling the statistics of Core GAD Indicators in one databank to ensure its proper updating and documentation. The database was uploaded and has been in the NSCB website (www.nscb.gov.ph) since November 2004 to provide relevant, timely, and user-friendly information on gender issues. It covers major sectors/areas such as population and families, work, agriculture, education, health and nutrition, social welfare, public life, and violence against women and children. Aside from the updates on existing indicators, the database has likewise been expanded to include four additional sectors – economic participation, environment, migration, and peace and human rights. It publishes and disseminates Factsheets on Women and Men annually. The 2006 Statistical Handbook on Women and Men in the Philippines, a triennial publication of NSCB, will be released by the end of May 2006. In addition to the updates from the online database, the publication will also include new indicators on human rights and those related to the Millennium Development Goals or MDGs, particularly on education, work, and economic participation of women and children. The National Statistics Office (NSO) on the other hand generates sex-disaggregated data and publishes gender statistics through its website (www.census.gov.ph), and annual factsheet, “Gender Quickstat”, a quarterly update of NSO’s most requested sex-disaggregated statistics. Sexdisaggregated tables from surveys on demography, children, family planning, family income and expenditure, vital statistics, labor and employment, and overseas workers are available online. The National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) utilized the Core GAD Indicators in the assessment and updating of the government’s Medium Term Philippine Development Plan (MTPDP) 2004-2010. The availability of select gender statistics enriched analysis of issues and discussion of government interventions, particularly on job creation, social justice and basic needs, health and education. It highlighted the need for the direct, sex-disaggregated measurement of income poverty to illustrate in concrete terms, the feminization of poverty. The Core GAD Indicators also 4