CEDAW/C/PHI/4
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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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