CEDAW/C/PHI/Q/6/Add.1 informed the data assessment in updating the Second Philippine Progress Report on MDGs. Aside from the MDG indicators, it also used the Gender and Development Index (GDI) and Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) to augment analysis of achievements in Goal 3 — Promoting Gender Equality. A remaining challenge is that of generating data disaggregated by sex and by province which is critical in monitoring imbalances in distribution of resources and the prioritization of development activities across the country. The NSCB’s Philippine Statistical Development Plan (PSDP) 2005-2010 includes a separate chapter on Social Needs and GAD. Considered a major breakthrough in addressing gender data gaps of Core GAD, FPW, MDGs and CEDAW, the chapter contains provisions on the problems and plans for the collection of sex-disaggregated data and statistics on priority gender issues, which shall be addressed by the government in the next five years. The PSDP serves as a companion document addressing the statistical requirements of the MTPDP. The NSCB also continuously disseminates gender statistics at the local level through its production of annual fact sheets and Handbook on Women and Men by its regional offices. The data serves as inputs to the regional development planning processes spearheaded by the Regional Development Coordinating Councils with NEDA regional offices as secretariat. Efforts at localizing the development of gender statistics are underway through inter-agency initiatives among international development agencies, government agencies as well as nongovernment organizations. Under the CIDA-funded Institutional Strengthening Project II (ISP-II), a self-assessment tool (GeRL) Ka Ba? or “Are you a Gender-Responsive Local Government Unit (LGU)? was developed to determine the current capacity levels of local government units to make their respective localities gender-responsive. This tool shall serve as an appraisal instrument for the gender mainstreaming strategy of the NCRFW at the local level. As part of the UNFPA Project on Strengthening Government Mechanisms to Mainstream Gender in the Reproductive Health, Population and Anti-Violence Against Women Programs, the Commission on Population committed to improve the Situational Analysis and Socio-Economic Profile of the Population Development Guide by requiring sex-disaggregated data and gender indicators in the local development plans. UNFPA is likewise currently supporting the Development of a VAW Documentation System to enable government to determine the extent of VAW and monitor delivery of services to VAW victims by various agencies such as the police and the Social Welfare Department (DSWD). The Local Government Department (DILG) is currently enhancing the indicators in the Local Governance Performance Management System (LGPMS) and the Community-based Monitoring System (CBPMS) to make them more gender sensitive by including sex-disaggregated data and other gender indicators. The Core Local Poverty Indicators (CLPIs) were approved by National Anti Poverty Commission (NAPC) En Banc Resolution 7 in March 2003, for local poverty monitoring and institutionalized at the local level through DILG MC 2003-92 providing for the adoption of the CLPI in local planning. The CLPIs are the minimum set of fourteen (14) carefully selected human development and income-based indicators for poverty diagnosis and planning which includes a maternal mortality indicator. 5