CEDAW/C/PHI/4 English Page 53 Institutional developments 208. More women officers in the OWWA front-line units, as well as in its overseas operations, were deployed to attend to the unique circumstances and needs of women overseas workers. 209. Filipino social centres overseas were restructured into Filipino workers' development centres to focus more on their welfare as workers, the major activities of which include: (a) Registration programmes for non-documented workers; (b) Organizing Filipino socio-civic organizations to represent workers' interests; (c) Business and livelihood counselling; (d) Preparing workers for reintegration into Philippine society after the completion of their employment contracts. 210. Gender and development desk officers were designated from each of the offices of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration: Pre-employment Services; Welfare and Employment; Adjudication, Licensing and Regulations; and General Administration and Support. 211. To step up its gender and development programme, the Department of Labor and Employment developed an Integrated Plan for Gender and Development, 2000 from which would emanate the formulation of a yearly plan. As a strategy, officials of the Department would include as one of the key result areas in their personal commitment forms, the integration of gender concerns into the regular programmes of their agencies, starting in 1995. 212. Furthermore, the Philippine Plan for Gender-responsive Development, 19952025, has a chapter on labour and employment which enumerates policy, institutional and programme project developments brought about by the Philippine Development Plan for Women, 1987-1992; remaining and emerging women's/gender issues and concerns in the sector; policies and strategies which government organizations and non-governmental organizations could adopt; and programmes project areas to be implemented in response to the identified issues. Programme/project developments 213. Gender-sensitivity training, gender-responsive planning sessions and other advocacy activities have been conducted for a number of the sector's top officials and heads of agencies, including programme and policy planners and implementors. These efforts need to be sustained and improved so that the mainstreaming of gender concerns in the policies, plans and programmes of the Department of Labor and Employment are fully operationalized and sustained. 214. The National Postharvest Institute for Research and Extension (NAPHIRE) of the Department of Agriculture has undertaken a training programme towards improving the role and efficiency of farm household members with emphasis on /...