CEDAW/C/PHI/5-6 employment and livelihood skills of women, particularly in high value adding industries and agricultural activities; to establish an enabling environment that will ensure the implementation of policies for the protection of women workers; to increase awareness of women of their economic rights and opportunities; and to strengthen women’s participation in economic decision making bodies. 108. Objectives related to the protection and fulfillment of women’s human rights are: to enhance access to basic social services; to promote gender-responsive delivery of justice to VAW survivors; to formulate and implement legislative measures that will eliminate gender bias; and to promote and advance women’s and girl-children’s human rights. 109. FPW objectives for the promotion of gender-responsive governance are: to mainstream gender in the bureaucracy; to enhance women’s leadership roles and participation in decision making; to strengthen women’s role in promoting gender-responsive governance; and to strengthen partnership with media in covering various women’s issues. Gender Mainstreaming Strategy 110. Like the PDPW and PPGD, the FPW is being implemented through a gender mainstreaming strategy and in accordance with existing guidelines for the preparation of agency GAD plans and use of the gender budget. This strategy calls for the comprehensive integration of gender principles and concepts in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programs. The key elements for a successful implementation of the gender mainstreaming strategy include: (a) sex-disaggregated data and statistics, (b) skills and opportunities to undertake gender analysis, (c) effective monitoring and evaluation of systems and tools, (d) national, sub-national and local structures with clearly-defined roles for leadership and support for gender mainstreaming, (e) effective communication, networks and linkages, (f) a skilled human resource base. (g) civil society participation, and (h) GAD budget. Gender and Development (GAD) Budget Policy 111. Learning how PDPW implementation was held back by lack of budget, the Philippines introduced the GAD Budget Policy in 1995 to fund the implementation of the PPGD. A provision of the General Appropriations Acts (GAA) of that year, the policy required all government agencies to set aside a portion of the budget allocated by the Act for GAD programs, projects and activities to ensure that the goals and objectives of the PPGD are translated into agency plans and targets. Every year thereafter, the annual GAA provides that agencies submit a GAD Plan along with their annual agency budget proposals and allocate at least 5 percent of their total budget to GAD. 112. In the 1999 General Appropriations Act (GAA), NCRFW was given the authority to review agency GAD Plans prior to their endorsement for the approval of the DBM. Results of the NCRFW monitoring of the implementation of the GAD Budget Policy showed that in 1999, almost 40 percent of all government agencies prepared their respective GAD plans for which a total of PhP3.42 billion was allocated for their implementation (NCRFW 1999-2002). Three quarters of this amount was allocated for institution and capacity building in gender mainstreaming. Less than one fifth was set aside for the women beneficiaries of agencies and about four percent for the needs of their women employees. In 2000, 41 percent of all government agencies complied with the GAD budget provision with a total of PhP3.3 billion 41