CEDAW/C/PHI/4 English Page 18 inputs to the medium and long-term development plans; and preparation of their inputs to sectoral performance assessment reports, public investment plans and other similar documents; (ii) Incorporate and reflect gender and development concerns in their agency performance commitment contract, indicting key result areas, as well as in their annual performance report to the President and annual agency proposals and work and financial plans. 9. The Plan has the following vision for Philippine society: gender equity and equality, actualization of the potential of women and men, democratic participation, women's empowerment and self-determination, respect for human rights, peace and social justice, and sustainable development. 10. The extensive coverage of the Philippine Plan for Gender-responsive Development ensures that no gender concern has been overlooked. It has 24 chapters divided into six parts: the development framework, the human development sector, the economic and industrial sectors, infrastructure and technology support, special concerns, and the development administration sector. 11. The development framework situates the Plan in the overall development efforts of the country taking into account possible scenarios and trends at the macro level which could affect the Plan's vision of the future. The human development sector covers the following: education and human resources development; health, nutrition and family planning, urban development and housing, social welfare and community development; the media; arts and culture; justice and peace and order; and labour and employment. Sectors on economic and industrial development include the following: agriculture and fisheries, agrarian reform, the environment and natural resources, and industry, trade and tourism. The infrastructure and technology support sectors bring to the fore issues and concerns affecting women as agents and workers and beneficiaries and users of infrastructure and technology. 12. The Plan also covers special and emerging concerns of women such as migration, prostitution, violence against women, women and the family, indigenous cultural communities and the ancestral domain, peace, and politics and governance. The development administration sector discusses Plan implementation and outlines operational strategies, policies and measures to carry this out. 13. The gender mainstreaming strategy is being supported by efforts at institutionalizing in the budget process of government the concerns of gender and development. Gender and development budgeting 14. An important accomplishment in this area of mobilizing resources for gender and development activities has been the inclusion, for the first time, in the 1995 General Appropriations Act (the law on the annual budget and expenditure programme of the Government) of a provision (section 27) that directed government agencies to set aside an amount from their 1995 appropriations for projects that address gender issues. To implement this general provision, /...

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