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(b) Presidential Directive dated 11 October 1995 directs the Department of
Agrarian Reform/Social Reform Council to expand the Social Reform Agenda to
cover implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action.
(c) CSC Memorandum Circular No. 19, Series of 1994, and Department of
Labor and Employment Administrative Order No. 68, Series of 1992, define and set
forth policies on sexual harassment and lay down mechanisms that would help
deter sexual harassment in government.
(d) Department of Labor and Employment Administrative Order No. 100,
Series of 1995, focuses on an enforcement programme on women workers.
(e) Resolution NFS-30 integrates gender concerns at the policy and
operations levels of all housing development programmes and projects of shelter
agencies.
Operational policies and strategies
Gender mainstreaming
6.
On the other hand, the executive branch of Government has been accelerating
women's integration into the mainstream development. Women and gender concerns
had been incorporated in the current Medium-term Philippine Development Plan,
1993-1998, and the Philippine Human Rights Plan, 1996-2000. In addition, a more
comprehensive perspective plan for gender and development has been completed and
serves as the Government's blueprint for action in promoting women's advancement
and in implementing the Government's commitment to the Fourth World Conference
on Women.
Philippine Plan for Gender-responsive Development, 1995-2025
7.
This Plan is the Government's 30-year perspective framework for pursuing
full equality and development for women and men. It spells out gender-related
goals and objectives and sets forth comprehensive policies, strategies and
programmes that need to be adopted and implemented by all governmental and
non-governmental organizations and the private sector to address identified
issues.
8.
The Plan was approved and adopted through Executive Order 273, issued on
8 September 1995. The Order directs all government agencies, departments,
bureaux, offices and instrumentalities, including government-owned and
-controlled corporations, at the national, subnational and local levels, to:
(a) Take appropriate steps to ensure the full implementation of the
policies/strategies and programmes/projects outlined in the Plan;
(b) Institutionalize gender and development efforts in government by
incorporating such concerns, as spelled out in the Plan, in their planning,
programming and budgeting processes, but more specifically to:
(i)
Include/incorporate gender and development concerns in the
formulation, assessment and updating of their annual agency plans and
/...