CEDAW/C/PHI/5-6 in access to resources and that address various forms of gender-based violence. The continuing challenge lies in the enforcement and monitoring of these laws and policies. j. Monitoring of the status of women. This presupposes the existence or availability of sexdisaggregated data and gender-related information at the lowest administrative level possible and across various socioeconomic variables. The country has initiated some measures, such as the refinement of a GAD indicator system, the issuance of a policy to allocate funding for the generation of sex-based data and the delineation of the roles of national oversight agencies in the monitoring of GAD concerns. The challenge is the application of these frameworks and implementation of policies to generate data on the prevalence of violence against women and children, quantify the economic contribution of women including measurement of unpaid work, and generate statistics on the informal sector. These would require additional resources from government. There is also a need to sensitize and orient data users and producers from key sectors to effectively use and analyze gender statistics currently being generated by the statistical system. Further, there is a need to capacitate all key players on the roles in monitoring the status of women. The remaining task is the development of a comprehensive monitoring framework to cover most areas of concern and thereby address the clamor of government agencies to synchronize all reporting and monitoring activities into one. k. Limited government resources and inefficiency and corruption in government. This affects not only the GAD budgets but also the allocation of resources to economic and social sectors that could provide public goods (health, nutrition, education) and employment. An issue that needs to be addressed is lack of commitment and political will to implement the GAD budget among government officials at the national and local levels. PART THREE: REPORTS ON EACH ARTICLE OF THE CONVENTION Article 1 Definition of Discrimination against Women Guarantee in the constitution of equality of women and men; laws or policy statements that define discrimination; legal definition of discrimination broad enough to cover practices not intending to discriminate but are discriminatory in effect 115. Article II, Section 14, of the 1987 Constitution provides that “The State recognizes the role of women in nation-building, and shall ensure the fundamental equality before the law of women and men.” Also, Article XIII Section 14 guarantees working women the right to safe and healthy working conditions, taking into account their maternal functions. Other specific provisions that guarantee women’s rights are Article VI, Sec. 5(2), which upholds the right of women to sectoral representation in national and local legislative bodies, and Article IV, which grants them equal citizenship rights. 44