CEDAW/C/PHI/4 English Page 26 44. Government and non-governmental organizations, jointly or separately, are addressing the problem of gender-role stereotyping. 45. The Philippine Government, through NCRFW, adopted the gender mainstreaming approach in order to eliminate gender discrimination and to ensure that women and gender concerns are fully integrated by the rest of Government in their planning and programming. Two vehicles were used in this approach: a separate plan for women and the main economic plan of the country. 46. The first Philippine Development Plan for Women, 1989-1992, has been updated into a long-term perspective plan, the Philippine Plan for Genderresponsive Development, 1995-2025. The second Plan recognizes genderstereotyping as one of the structural and historical determinants of the status of Filipino women today. Socio-cultural issues and the corresponding policies and strategies and programme project areas have been identified in chapters of the Plan such as education and human resources development; women and family; the media; and indigenous cultural communities and the ancestral domain. 47. Since the adoption of the Philippine Plan, the economic plan, or the Medium-term Philippine Development Plan, has always carried general and sectoral policies on women/gender and development. This is as a result of the institutional structures that have been put in place such as the representation of NCRFW and women non-governmental organization representatives and expert advocates from the academe in the different technical subcommittees for development planning. 48. To give recognition to the role of women regardless of their social, economic and political standing in society, Republic Act 6949 was enacted declaring 8 March as National Women's Day. Every 25 November to 10 December, on the other hand, women's groups join a worldwide campaign against gender violence and educate the public that women's rights are human rights. 49. The country's third periodic report mentioned the CIDA-funded consciousness-raising programme of NCRFW targeting the different layers of the bureaucracy from department secretaries and under-secretaries to the planners, trainers and other decision makers. Between 1989 and 1992, 76 seminars have been conducted, which include such topics as gender issues, gender dynamics and gender-responsive development. A joint project between CIDA-NCRFW and the Women's Feature Service produced primers on population, sexual harassment, domestic violence, politics, environment and overseas workers. Recently, an executive order was signed by the President requiring all government training institutes to include gender orientation in their programmes. 50. Because of the need to create a new perspective by which students can begin to question and analyse gender relations in society and understand the factors that led to the current status of women, women's studies were introduced in 40 colleges and universities; among these were state colleges and universities at both graduate and undergraduate levels. The Philippine Women's Studies Association undertakes teacher training in women's studies as well as develops gender-sensitive modules in the natural and social sciences. The Development Institute for Women in Asia-Pacific (DIWA) also conducts awareness-raising programmes to address the issues of sexism and women's discrimination in /...