Day 2CAPABILITY BUILDING SESSIONGender Mainstreaming: Installation of strategic mechanism and GAD Planning and Budgeting

Prepared by Marita Castillo Pimentel

National Gender Resource PoolPhilippine Commission on Women

through

The Childhood Learners and Readers Publications, Inc.

From gender issues to GAD Issues• Boys will be boys• Girls should do

domestic workGender stereotypes

• Working mothers• Earning houswivesMultiple

burden

• Fulltime wives• Professional

partners• Primary income

earners

Violence Against Women Children

Economic Marginalization

Political subordination

GAD in Education

GAD Capacity Develop-

ment

GFPS as GAD Mechanism

Gender MAINSTREA

MING

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Rationale for GAD( Mandates)

Compliance

Commitment

Obligation

• 5% GAD Budget,• COA Audit Observation

Memo (AOM)

• International :• CEDAW, • MDGs• EFA

• National :• PH Constitution• Philippine Development Plan• Phil. Plan for Gender Responsive

Development (1995-2025)• Women’s EDGE Plan (2013-2016)• Magna Carta of Women

• Gender equality• quality, equitable, culture-

based, and complete basic education

• Inclusive Growth,• Good Governance• National Development

Gender in PH educationStrategic gender issues to be addressed

1. Boys are underperforming in key education indicators compared to girls

2. Indigenous people (IP) also fall behind in enrolment data and experience discrimination

3. Higher education degrees manifest marked gender-segregation

4. Gender biases and stereotypes remain, and are still embedded in the curricula, instructional methods, materials and learning media

5. Women and girls continue to be vulnerable to sexual harassment and violence inside schools because of the lack of safe and gender responsive teaching-learning environment

The Mechanism:GAD Focal Point System (GFPS)

1. is an interacting and interdependent group of people in all 2. government instrumentalities 3. tasked to catalyze and accelerate gender mainstreaming. 4. It is a mechanism established to ensure and advocate for,

guide, coordinate, and monitor the 5. development, implementation, review and updating of

their 6. GAD plans and GAD-related programs, activities and

projects (PAPs);

PCW MC 2011-01 PCW-NEDA-DBM JMC 2012-01

COA CIRCULAR 2014

DEPED ORDER 27, 2013

GAD PLANNING AND BUDGETING

PLANNING

• GAD in the Annual Work and Financial Plan, Procurement Plan, School Improvement Plan, Regional Education Development Plan

BUDGET

• AT LEAST 5% OF GAA• Within annual budget

cycle

Columns 1-6 PLAN

Columns 7-8 BUDGETColumns 4 and 6Must be in aligned with your

WORKPLANSColumns 7-8 must be reflected in yourANNUAL PROCUREMENT PLAN

Parts of the GAD PLAN AND BUDGET (GPB) TEMPLATE

Columns 1,2,3 and 5Comprise the GAD agenda

What are the essential CONTENT of the GPB

CLIENT FOCUSED

ORGANIZATION FOCUSED

GAD MANDATES

1. CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

2. GFPS ACTIVITIES3. SEX DISAGGREGATED DATA AND

GAD INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

4. GENDER MAINSTREAMING

GAD PLAN and BUDGET

Column 1 Gender Issues

• lack of knowledge and skills of the management and/or employees on GAD,

• low participation of women or men employees in human resource development undertakings,

• decision-making structures and processes within the agency,

• sexual harassment and multiple burdens of women employees

Column 2 Cause of Gender Issues

• No GAD Orientation yet

• Lack of sex disaggregated data to identify factors of low participation rate among women/men

• lack of training opportunities for women employees to qualify for third level posts

• No mechanism to addressprioritize in the agency’s succeeding GAD plan and budget (GPB) recurring gender issues

GAD PLAN and BUDGET

Column 3 GAD Result/ Objectives• increased awareness of women

workers on social protection services and welfare programs of the government

• increased knowledge and skills of the technical staff on GAD planning and budgeting

• improved provision of gender-responsive PAPs for the clients of the organization

Column 5 GAD Activity

• Forum on RA 9710 (Magna Carta of Women)

• Seminar on GAD Laws• Capacity building seminar

on GAD• GAD Orientation• Gender Sensitivity Training

Must specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time-bound

Agencies shall give priority to client-focused GAD activities. However, agencies who are in the early stages of gender mainstreaming shall give premium in capacitating the employees on GAD concepts and principles (e.g. Gender Sensitivity Trainings (GSTs), orientation seminars on GAD-related laws, institutionalization of GAD in the organization through policies, establishment/strengthening of the GFPS).

GAD PLAN and BUDGET

Column 4 Relevant MFO/PAPs• Teacher/Staff Development

program• Education services i.e. Adopt a

school Program• HRD programs or services of the

agency.

Column 6 : Performance Indicators

• 2 CAPDEV conducted for the Division GFPS within the year

• # of IEC materials on GAD distributed to the supervisor/classroom teachers

• one year planning, indicators are at the output level to measure the direct results of implementing the GAD activities. • Quantitative indicators (i.e. number, frequency, percentile, and ratio.) • Qualitative indicators (i.e. the client’s opinion of the timeliness of service- feedback

system)

GAD PLAN and BUDGET

Column 7 GAD Budget• board and lodging (if

training is live-in) • food for x number of persons

for x number of days, • professional fee for resource

persons, • supplies and materials, • travel expenses, • communication costs for

coordinating the training,

Column 8: Source of Budget• General Appropriations Act (GAA)

of the agency; • Priority Development Assistance

Fund (PDAF) of legislators; • Complementation with LGUs and

other government offices; • Official Development Assistance

(ODA); • Corporate Operating Budget

(COB); and • Partnership with private sector,

NGOs, and CSOs, among others.

GAD PLAN and BUDGET/AR

COLUM 9: REPONSIBLE UNIT• GFPS• SCHOOL• HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICE

COLUMN 10: VARIANCE• deviation from the

identified results, activities and targets.

• reasons for the deviation as well as the factors that have facilitated or hindered the implementation of the agency's PCW- endorsed GPB

Examples of expenses that CAN be charged to the GAD budget:

1. PAPs included in the PCW-endorsed GAD plan, including relevant expenses such as supplies, travel, food, board and lodging, professional fees among others;

2. Capacity development on GAD; 3. Activities related to the establishment and strengthening of enabling mechanisms that support

the GAD efforts of agencies (e.g. GAD Focal Point System, VAW desks, among others); 4. Salaries of agency personnel assigned to plan, implement and monitor GAD PAPs on a full-time

basis, following government rules in hiring and creating positions; 5. Agencies may cost the time spent by GFPS members and of agency personnel doing GAD

related work (e.g. auditors doing audit of GAD funds) and charge this to the GAD budget. Overtime work rendered in doing GAD related PAPs may be compensated through a compensatory time off (CTO), following government accounting and auditing rules and regulations;

6. Salaries of police women and men assigned to women’s desks; 7. Agency programs to address women’s practical and strategic needs (e.g. daycare center,

breastfeeding rooms, crisis or counseling rooms for abused women, halfway houses for trafficked women and children, gender-responsive family planning program among others);

8. Consultations conducted by agencies to gather inputs for and/or to disseminate the GAD plan and budget;

9. Payment of professional fees, honoraria and other services for gender experts or gender specialists engaged by agencies for GAD-related trainings and activities; and

10. IEC activities (development, printing and dissemination) that support the GAD PAPs and objectives of the agency.

Examples of expenses that CANNOT be charged to the GAD budget:

1. PAPs that are not in the agency’s PCW-endorsed GAD plan; 2. Personal services of women employees UNLESS they are working full time or part

time on GAD PAPs; 3. Honoraria for agency GAD Focal Point System members or other employees

working on their agency GAD-programs and activities; 4. Salaries of casual or emergency employees UNLESS they are hired to assist in

GAD related PAPs; 5. Provision for contingency funds or "other services" of PAPs; 6. Car-pooling, gas masks for traffic/ environment enforcers, among others; 7. The following expenses may NOT be charged to the GAD budget UNLESS they are

justified as clearly addressing a specific gender issue: – 6.1 Physical, mental and health fitness including purchase of equipment and information

dissemination materials; – 6.2 Social, rest and recreation activities; – 6.3 Religious activities and implementation of cultural projects; and – 6.4 Construction expenses

8. Purchase of supplies, materials, equipment and vehicles for the general use of the agency.

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Gender Mainstreaming

–An organizational strategy to bring a gender perspective to all aspects of an institution’s policy and activities, –through building gender capacity

and accountability

PAPs

MFO

Org Outcome

Sectoral outcome

PresidentialPriority Areas

Societal Goals

• quality, equitable, culture-based, and complete basic education

• Lesson• Curriculum• Programs• SBM

• Policy services• Basic Educ

Services• Dev Services for

Private Schools

• Quality Education for

• Productivity, • Global

Competi-tiveness and

• Sustainability

Socio-EconomicDevelopment

• Inclusive Growth

• National Development

• Gender Equality

Policy

Enabling Mechanism

s

PeoplePrograms, projects & activities

ENTRY POINTS OF GENDER MAINSTREAMING

Sponsor - with power to legitimize change;Change agent- actually making the change, eg. Focal points; Target-people in the bureaucracy, field workers, clientsAdvocate- wants to achieve change but lacks power to sanction it

Flagship programs are strategic entry points

Systems and mechanisms installed, including the funds allocated for GAD activities

Official statements in support for GM, e.g., E.O.s, memoranda, specific guidelines

Areas of Planning

PEOPLEClient focusedOrganizational focused

POLICIESRevisitReviewRevise

Enabling MechanismsCapacity developmentCapability Building

Programs-Activities-Projects

Mainstreaming Strategies

GAD TO LOG FRAME

Meron o Wala1. I know someone who is a mom.2. I know someone who is brother.3. I know someone who is a father.4. I know a person who is gay/lesbian.5. I know someone who is a battered woman.6. I know someone who is a houseband.7. I know someone who is a single parent.8. I know someone who has been harassed/rape.9. I know someone who is unemployed husband.10. I know someone who is a working mother.

Closing points• Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is

a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance. (Kofi Annan )

• Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer--into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — My Two Countries (1923) by Nancy Astor, American/British politician, 1879-1964; first woman to sit in British House of Commons; Lord Mayor of Plymouth; leader of women's and children's rights

Maraming salamat po