CEDAW/C/PHI/5-6
Prevention of Domestic Violence Cases at the Barangay Level (DILG); Gender Responsive
Program of Instructions for the Philippine National Police–Basic Recruit Course and Basic
Course (Philippine Public Safety College); Primer on GAD Plan and Budget for budget
officials and personnel (DBM); Methodology for a national time-use survey (NSO);
Training Manual on Statistics for Gender-Responsive Local Development Planning
(SRTC); and Methodology to Generate Statistics on Violence Against Women and Children
(NSCB).
b. Tools produced by the health department to guide its personnel in the implementation of
gender-responsive programs and projects include gender and health training module for
health workers, protocol for medical management of women and children survivors of
violence, protocol for reproductive health service, gender-sensitive primary healthcare
training modules, and gender-sensitive standards for quality health service.
c. The social welfare department’s set of training modules on GAD, notably a training module
on GAD for integration in the training programs of the department, training module for
prosecutors and police officers in handling and management of women and children victims
of abuse and exploitation, and a training module on gender mainstreaming and rights-based
programming.
d. The Population Commission’s “An Analytical Framework on Gender Responsive
Population Policy with Reproductive Health Perspectives” and an “Advocacy and Training
Manual on Basic Concepts of Gender Equality and Reproductive Health for Population
Program Workers.”
e. NCRFW tools that could be used by agencies: Handbook on GAD Training for Government
Agencies which include the GAD dictionary, Gender Mainstreaming Evaluation
Framework, and Ways to Gender Responsive Organizations, among others.
144. As part of its thrust of developing gender-responsive organizations and plans, NCRFW
provides technical assistance to government agencies and local governments. It also links with
regional GAD Resource Centers to strengthen information exchange and networking among
GAD advocates, faculty and researchers in the regions and to help build a resource base for
training, research and technical assistance on GAD. As of 2003, there are eight active centers
in five regions.
145. Other policy statements and mechanisms that are in place to promote the development and
advancement of women include:
a. Executive Order No. 368, dated 5 September 1996, provides the implementing guidelines
on the institutional arrangements to fast track the localization of the Social Reform Agenda
(SRA) and to include the NCRFW in the membership of the Social Reform Council. The
SRA is a package of interventions aimed to respond to the needs of the poor (including
women and the informal sector) and integrate them into the mainstream of development.
b. Republic Act 8371, or the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act of 1997, includes provisions that
affirm equal rights for men and women and provide measures to promote women’s
advancement, their full access to education, maternal and child care, health, nutrition, and
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