RA 7192

WOMEN
IN DEVELOPMENT
AND NATION-BUILDING
ACT OF 1992

IMPLEMENTING RULES
AND REGULATIONS
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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7192

Women in Development and

Nation-Building Act

IMPLEMENTING RULES
AND REGULATIONS
 Table of Content
Republic Act No. 7192

An Act Promoting the Integration of Women

as Full and Equal Partners of Men in Development
and Nation-Building and for Other Purposes ----------------------------------------- 1

NEDA Board Resolution No. 35

Approving the Implementing Rules and Regulations

of Republic Act No. 7192 ----------------------------------------------------------- 7

Implementing Rules and Regulations

for Sections 2, 3 and 4 of Republic Act No. 7192 ----------------------------------- 8

Annexes

Annex A. Social Development Committee

Resolution No. 5, Series of 1992 ----------------------------------------- 25

Annex B.Glossary of Terms -------------------------------------------------------- 27

 Republic of the Philippines
Congress of the Philippines
Metro Manila

Fifth Regular Session

Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-second day of July,
nineteen hundred and ninety-one.

[REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7192]

AN ACT PROMOTING THE INTEGRATION OF WOMEN AS FULL

AND EQUAL PARTNERS OF MEN IN DEVELOPMENT AND
NATION BUILDING AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the

Philippines in Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. Title -- This Act shall be cited as the "Women in

Development and Nation Building Act."

SECTION 2. Declaration of Policy. -- The State recognizes the role

of women in nation building and shall ensure the fundamental equality before the
law of women and men. The State shall provide women rights and opportunities
equal to that of men.

To attain the foregoing policy:

(1) A substantial portion of official development assistance funds received

from foreign governments and multilateral agencies and organizations shall be set
aside and utilized by the agencies concerned to support programs and activities
for women;

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 (2) All government departments shall ensure that women benefit equally
and participate directly in the development programs and projects of said
department, specifically those funded under official foreign development assistance,
to ensure the full participation and involvement of women in the development
process; and

(3) All government departments and agencies shall review and revise all
their regulations, circulars, issuances and procedures to remove gender bias therein.

SECTION 3. Responsible Agency - The National Economic and

Development Authority (NEDA) shall primarily be responsible for ensuring the
participation of women as recipients in foreign aid, grants and loans. It shall
determine and recommend the amount to be allocated for the development activity
involving women.

SECTION 4. Mandate - The NEDA, with the assistance of the National

Commission on the Role of Filipino Women, shall ensure that the different
government departments, including its agencies and instrumentalities which, directly
or indirectly, affect the participation of women in national development and their
integrtation therein;

(1) Formulate and prioritize rural or countryside development programs

or projects, provide income and employment opportunities to women in the rural
areas and thus, prevent their heavy migration from rural to urban or foreign countries;

(2) Include an assessment of the extent to which their programs and/or

projects integrate women in the development process and of the impact of said
programs or projects on women, including their implications on enhancing the
self-reliance of women in improving their income;

(3) Ensure the active participation of women and women’s organizations

in the development programs and/or projects including their involvement in the
planning, design, implementation, management, monitoring and evaluation thereof;

(4) Collect sex-disaggregated data and include such data in its program/
project paper, proposal or strategy;
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 (5) Ensure that programs and/or projects are designed so that the
percentage of women who receive assistance is approximately proportionate
to either their traditional participation in the targeted activities or their proportion
of the population, whichever is higher. Otherwise, the following should be
stated in the program/project paper, proposal or strategy:

(a) The obstacles in achieving the goal;

(b) The steps being taken to overcome those obstacles; and

(c) To the extent that steps are not being taken to overcome those
obstacles, why they are not being taken.

(6) Assist women in activities that are of critical significance to their self-
reliance and development.

SECTION 5. Equality in Capacity to Act - Women of legal age,

regardless of civil status, shall have the capacity to act and enter into contracts
which shall in every respect be equal to that of men under similar circumstances.

In all contractual situations where married men have the capacity to act,
married women shall have equal rights.

To this end:

(1) Women shall have the capacity to borrow and obtain loans and
execute security and credit arrangements under the same conditions as men;

(2) Women shall have equal access to all government and private sector
programs granting agricultural credit, loans and nomaterial resources and shall
enjoy equal treatment in agrarian reform and land resettlement programs;

(3) Women shall have equal rights to act as incorporators and enter into
insurance contracts; and

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 (4) Married women shall have rights equal to those of married men in
applying for passports, secure visas and other travel documents, without need to
secure the consent of their spouses.

In all other similar contractual relations, women shall enjoy equal rights
and shall have the capacity to act which shall in every respect be equal too those
of men under similar circumstances.

SECTION 6. Equal Membership in Clubs - Women shall enjoy equal

access to membership in all social, civic and recreational clubs, committees,
associations and similar other organizations devoted to public purpose. They shall
be entitled to the same rights and privileges accorded to their spouses if they
belong to the same organization.

SECTION 7. Admission to Military Schools - Any provision of the

law to the contrary notwithstanding, consistent with the needs of the services,
women shall be accorded equal opportunities for appointment, admission,
training, graduation, and commissioning in all military or similar schools of the
Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police not later
than the fourth academic year following the approval of this Act in accordance
with the standards required for men except for those minimum essential
adjustments required by physiological differences between sexes.

SECTION 8. Voluntary PAG-IBIG, GSIS and SSS Coverage - Married

persons who devote full time to managing the household and family affairs shall,
upon the working spouse’s consent, be entitled to voluntary PAG-IBIG
(Pagtutulungan - Ikaw, Bangko, Industriya at Gobyerno), Government Service
Insurance System (GSIS) or Social Security System (SSS) coverage to the extent
of one-half (½) of the salary and compensation of the working spouse. The
contributions due thereon shall be deducted from the salary of the working spouse.

The GSIS or the SSS, as the case may be, shall issue rules and regulations
necessary to effectively implement the provisions of this section.

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 SECTION 9. Implementing Rules - The NEDA in consultation with the
different government agencies concerned shall issue rules and regulations as may
be necessary for the effective implementation of Section 2, 3, and 4 of this Act
within six (6) months from its effectivity.

SECTION 10. Compliance Report - Within six (6) months from the
effectivity of this Act and every six (6) months thereafter, all government depart-
ments, including its agencies and instrumentalities, shall submit a report to Con-
gress on their compliance with this Act.

SECTION 11. Separability Clause - If for any reason any section or

provision of this Act is declared unconstitutional or invalid, the other sections or
provisions hereof which are not affected thereby shall continue to be in full force
and effect.

SECTION 12. Repealing Clause - The provisions of Republic Act No.

386, otherwise known as the Civil Code of the Philippines, as amended, and of
Executive Order No. 209, otherwise known as the Family Code of the Philip-
pines, and all laws, decrees, executive orders, proclamations, rules and regula-
tions, or parts thereof, inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

SECTION 13. Effectivity Clause - The rights of women and all the
provisions of this Act shall take effect immediately upon its publication in the Offi-
cial Gazette or in two (2) newspaper of general circulation.

Approved,

NEPTALI A. GONZALES RAMON V. MITRA

President of the Senate Speaker of the House of Representatives

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 This Act which is a consolidation of House Bill No. 22466 and Senate Bill
No. 1200 was finally passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on
December 11, 1991.

LORENZO E. LEYNES, JR. CAMILO L. SABIO

Acting Secretary of the Senate Secretary General
House of Representatives

Approved: February 12, 1992

CORAZON C. AQUINO
President of the Philippines

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 REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
NATIONAL ECONOMIC AND DEVELOPMENT
AUTHORITY
NEDA sa Pasig, Amber Avenue, Pasig, Metro Manila

NEDA BOARD RESOLUTION

NO. 35 (s. 1992)

APPROVING THE IMPLEMENTING RULES

AND REGULATIONS OF R.A. 7192

On motion duly seconded,

BE IT RESOLVED, as it is hereby resolved, to approve as it is hereby

approved, the Implementing Rules and Regulations for Section 2, 3, and 4 of
Republic Act 7192 entitled, "An Act Promoting the Integration of Women
as Full and Equal Partners of Men in Development and Nation Building
and for Other Purposes".

UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED, November 18, 1992.

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 IMPLEMENTING RULES AND REGULATIONS (IRR)
FOR SECTIONS 2, 3, AND 4 OF
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7192

The following rules and regulations are hereby issued pursuant to Section 9 of
R.A. 7192, otherwise known as the “Women in Development and Nation
Building Act.”

RULE 1
POLICY AND APPLICATION

SECTION 1. Purpose - These rules and regulations provide guidance

and measures that will mobilize and substantially enhance the participation of women
in the development process in ways equal to that of men.

SECTION 2. Declaration of Policies - The State recognizes the role of

women in nation building and shall ensure the fundamental equality before the law
of women and men. The State shall provide women rights and opportunities equal
to that of men.

To attain the foregoing policy, the following provisions shall be strictly

observed:

(a) A substantial portion of the official development assistance funds

received from foreign governments and multi-lateral agencies and organizations
shall be set aside and utilized by the agencies concerned to support programs and
activities for women.

(b) All government departments shall ensure that women benefit equally
and participate directly in the development programs and projects of said
department, especially those funded under official foreign development assistance
to ensure the full participation and involvement of women in the development
process.

(c) All government departments and agencies shall review and revise all
their regulations, circulars, issuances and procedures to remove gender bias therein.

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 SECTION 3. Mandate and Responsible Agency —

(a) The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) shall

primarily be responsible for ensuring the participation of women as recipients in
foreign aid, grants and loans. It shall determine and recommend the amount to be
allocated for the development activity involving women.

(b) The NEDA and the National Commission on the Role of Filipino
Women (NCRFW) shall ensure that the different government departments,
including its agencies and instrumentalities which directly or indirectly affect the
participation of women in national development and their integration therein;

(1) Formulate and prioritize rural or countryside developmenmt

programs or projects, provide income and employment
opportunities to women in the rural areas and thus, prevent their
heavy migration from rural to urban or foreign countries;

(2) Include an assessment of the extent to which their programs

and/or projects integrate women in the development process
and of the impact of said programs or projects on women,
including their implications on enhancing the self-reliance of
women in improving their income;

(3) Ensure the active participation of women and women’s

organizations in the development programs and/or projects
incuding their involvement in the planning, design, implementation,
management, monitoring and evaluation thereof;

(4) Collect sex-disaggregated data and include such data in its

program/project paper, proposal or strategy;

(5) Ensure that programs and/or projects are designed so that the
percentage of women who receive assistance is approximately
proportionate to either their traditional participation in the targeted
activities or their proportion of the population, whichever is higher.
Otherwise, the following should be stated in the program/project

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 paper, proposal or strategy:

(i) The obstacles in achieving the goal;

(ii) The steps being taken to overcome those obstacles; and

(iii) To the extent that steps are not being taken to overcome
those obstacles, why they are not being taken.

(6) Assist women in activities that are of critical significance to their

self-reliance and development.

SECTION 4. Coverage — These rules shall apply to the following:

(a) NEDA Secretariat of the NEDA Board and the NEDA Regional
Offices (NROs) serving as Secretariats to the various Regional Development
Councils (RDCs);

(b) Sub-regional Planning Development Offices serving as the Technical

Secretariats of the various Local Development Councils and the Local Government
Executives;

(c) NCRFW, the Governmental’s National Machinery on Women;

(d) All Government agencies and instrumentalities including Local

Governments to the extent provided for in the Republic Act; and

(e) The Agency Women in Development (WID) Focal Points.

SECTION 5. Guidelines on Implementation — In the implementation
of the provisions of R.A. 7192 and its IRR, the following shall be considered:

(a) Gender Responsive Planning is a new development concept being

operationalized within the government bureaucracy. As such, the first two (2) years
of its implementation shall be devoted to the evaluation, development and revision/
refinements of systems, tools and procedures to be utilized by concerned agencies
in the discharge of their functions.

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 (b) As the tools for facilitating the integration of gender concerns are being
developed, concerned government officials/staffs of the various agencies, who have
undergone gender sensitizing and skills training programs, shall immediately
undertake specific measures to implement the tasks expected of them under the Act
and the IRR.

(c) NEDA, NCRFW and the Agency Focal Points shall ensure that the
necessary basic tools and guidelines shall be available not later than the first six-
twelve months from the date of effectivity of the IRR.

(d) More specific guidelines have to be drawn vis-a-vis the requirements

of the Local Government Code (LGC). In this regard, the NROs and concerned
sub-national development offices, (Provincial Planning Development Offices -
PPDOs and Municipal/City Planning Development Offices - M/CPDOs may have
to further translate these into more operational terms, whenever necessary, for the
adequate implementation of the R.A. at the field levels.

More specifically, these guidelines shall be consistent with the Clearing

and Monitoring System for the LGUs’ ODA grant-assisted programs and projects.
This System, which was approved by the President, is aimed at coordinating and
systematizing the direct accessing of grants from external/foreign donors, as
provided for by the LGC.

(e) NEDA and NCRFW in consultation with concerned agencies shall, in

the course of implementing these guidelines make the necessary amendments in
response to emerging developments.

RULE II
RESOURCE MOBILIZATION

SECTION 6. Resource Mobilization for Gender Concerns and

Women’s Activities

(a) In support of the full benefits of gender responsive planning, external and
domestic resources shall be increasingly mobilized for utilization by national and local
government agencies to support programs and projects for women.

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 (b) In the implementation of the provisions of this Section, the following
considerations shall be strictly observed:

(1) The concept of mainstreaming gender concerns in the

development process shall be strongly pursued at all times. This
standpoint is essential in ensuring the expedient participation in
development and nation building of women as a distinct human
resource of society.

(2) The line/implementing agencies shall ensure that in the first year
of implementation (1993), at least 5 percent of funds received
from foreign governments and multi-lateral agencies/
organizations are in support of programs/projects that
mainstream/include gender concerns in development. In the
subsequent years, this shall be increased from 5 percent to 10-
30 percent as the various line/implementing agencies and LGUs
shall be increased opportunities to incorporate gender concerns
in their on-going and new programs and projects.

(3) The application of the required percentage allocation shall be on a

cumulative basis, and not on a project to project basis. Cognizant,
however, that some sectors such as transport, public works and
other hard infrastructure have projects benefitting the entire
population regardless of gender, the compliance to the above-
mentioned shall not be strictly enforced. Concerned departments
shall, however, make explicit in their program/project proposals
their recognition of women/women’s organizations as beneficiaries,
as groups to consult, as direct participants/managers, as
development agents/catalysts, and as conduits, whenever feasible.

(4) NEDA shall endeavor to sustain if not increase this allocation to

enable the concerned agencies to promptly and adequately
meet the needs of the women sector.

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 RULE III
CLASSIFICATION OF PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS

SECTION 7. Programs and projects for women may take the following
forms:

(a) “Integrated programs/projects”

In support of development programs/projects where women’s roles,

contributions, benefits are appropriately integrated and taken into account as early
as project conceptualization.

The processes involved in the design of such projects is expected to have

considered the peculiarities of each gender as early as the project development
phase, and shall have corrected any imbalances that traditional projects usually
commit.

Such projects demonstrate higher forms of mainstreaming/including gender/

women concerns in development efforts where there are no built-in barriers to the
participation of either gender. On-going projects and completed project proposals
may be reviewed accordingly for inclusion of gender-fair project approaches, and
minimum but coherent description of the concerns in the over-all project objectives,
design and strategies.

(b) “Women’s Components” - in support of women’s components within

larger general projects focusing on activities designed to harness the potentials of
the women sector, without necessarily altering the original character of the project.
This can be pushed through for pipeline projects that are in the design stage where
detailed replanning of components can be undertaken.

(c) “For Women Only” - in support of studies and technical assistance

requirements to further promote the integration of women in development policies
and programs/projects. These are special support interventions in aid of policy
formulation and program/project development among others.

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 RULE IV
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

SECTION 8. NEDA and NCRFW

(a) Development Planning/Advocacy

(1) NEDA, in consultation with NCRFW, shall come up with

relevant planning/updating framework to the various Planning
Sub-committees that will appropriately ensure the integration of
gender concerns in the development plans.

NEDA and NCRFW shall provide technical assistance to the

Sectoral Planning Sub-committees. The NROs, on the other
hand, shall do the same to the regional and sub-national planning
bodies/committees.

(2) NCRFW shall provide the line/implementing agencies and the

LGUs through the Department of Interior and Local
Government (DILG) prior to the Planning Exercise, relevant
guidelines which they can consider in drafting their respective
inputs to the formulation of the Medium-Term Philippine
Development Plan, the Regional/Local Development Plans, the
Philippine Development Reports and related reports. These
guidelines shall be updated to respond to emerging
developments.

(3) NCRFW shall continue to spearhead the formulation and

updating of the Philippine Perspective Plan for Gender and
Development and related documents.

(4) NCRFW and NEDA shall devise appropriate measures to

build and strengthen linkages with the concerned Legislative
Sub-committees for the purpose of ensuring complementation
in policy directions and recommending appropriate legislative
agenda.

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 (5) NEDA, in consultation with NCRFW, shall ensure the
continuing participation of Non-Government Organizations
(NGOs)/People’s Organizations (POs) who are able to
articulate gender concerns in relevant sub-committees and
working groups for policy formulation and development
planning.

(6) NCRFW shall network and conduct periodic consultations with

NGOs/POs, especially women groups, to generate their
involvement in the development process. Concerned NEDA staffs
shall actively participate in these consultations.

(b) Programming

(1) NEDA shall review project proposal forms and guidelines,

revise them accordingly, and ensure that sex-disaggregated
data are adequately reflected in the program/project’s
situationers and made as basis for the identification of strategies
and activities.

These forms shall be disseminated to the concerned agencies as

soon as possible in order that project proposals to be submitted
to NEDA for processing for external assistance already reflect
the desire reorientation.

(2) NEDA and NCRFW shall jointly develop a set of viable

criteria for guidance of project evaluators in assessing the
extent of responsiveness of gender concerns in relevant
aspects of the project proposals. The active involvement of
the agencies shall be sought in the undertaking.

Criteria and guidelines to be developed may be considered in the

next updating of the NEDA Project Development Manual.

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 (3) NEDA shall evaluate programs/projects from a gender
perspective and recommend viable measures on further
integrating gender concerns in those that are found to be
technically sound and feasible.

(4) NEDA shall prioritize well-packaged, technically sound and

feasible programs/projects that are found to increase the access
of women to income and employment opportunities in the rural
areas, including those that would equip women with decision-
making and management skills.

(5) NCRFW shall assist agencies, LGUs and NGOs/POs in

developing and packaging programs/projects that integrate
gender perspectives in various sectoral concerns.

(6) NCRFW shall make a regular inventory of the pipeline

programs/projects for ODA funding following the above-
mentioned classifications.
(7) NEDA shall provide a regular update on ODA resources
actually committed for gender concerns.

(8) NEDA and NCRFW shall actively advocate the donors’

community to sustain their priorities towards assisting/funding
innovative gender responsive programs/projects. As a more
crucial activity, they shall increasingly mobilize line/
implementing agencies, specifically their department heads/
management officials, to give high priority to efforts that will
strengthen existing mechanisms and structures towards the
integration of gender concerns in their planning, programming,
monitoring, and evaluating functions.

(9) NCRFW and NEDA shall mobilize agencies through periodic

consultations and memorandum circulars to review their
pipeline programs/projects and accordingly integrate gender
concerns.

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(c) Monitoring and Evaluation

(1) NEDA shall provide where appropriate, guidelines for the

monitoring and evaluation of projects to determine the extent to
which gender concerns have been addressed to and have been
mainstreamed.

(2) NCRFW shall make available a gender responsive monitoring/

evaluation and impact assessment framework which can readily
be adopted by concerned agencies.

(3) NEDA, in its regular conduct of impact studies or post-

implementation evaluations, shall include an assessment of the
extent to which selected major development programs/projects
are able to integrate gender concerns in actual implementation.

(4) NCRFW, on the basis of its review and evaluation functions,

shall also undertake selective impact assessments of women’s
programs/projects.

Moreover, NEDA and NCRFW could jointly conduct impact

assessments as may be deemed necessary.

(5) NEDA, NCRFW, line/implementing agencies and the LGUs

shall utilize existing coordination and monitoring systems and
procedures in evaluating the extent of compliance of the
concerned agencies with the IRR.

(6) NEDA and NCRFW shall mobilize specifically the Planning

offices/units and concerned bureaus of the various agencies
such as the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS-Department
of Agriculture), Bureau of Labor and Employment Statistics
(BLES-Department of Labor and Employment) in identifying
and making available crucial sex-disaggregated data
requirements vis-a-vis their specific purposes (planning,
programming, delivery of services, resource allocation, etc.).

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 Data that are beyond the agencies’ capacity to generate shall be
referred to the data generating agencies such as the National
Statistics Office (NSO), among others, for appropriate action.

These specialized data producing agencies shall provide the

necessary technical assistance to concerned entities by virtue of
their mandates and specifically by the R.A. provisions. As
among those government agencies mandated by this R.A., they
shall be expected to initiate pro-activate measures towards
ensuring the timely and adequate collection of sex-
disaggregated data for planning and programming purposes.

Specifically, the NSCB shall ensure that gender concerns are

integrated into the sectoral plans and programs of the Philippine
Statistical Development Plan (PSDP) and that appropriate
mechanisms are adopted to implement the gender-based
statistical activities of the concerned agencies at both the central
and sub-national levels.

(7) NCRFW shall ensure that all governmental agencies/

instrumentalities, particularly of the critical sectors and sub-
national offices including LGUs, have set up and reactivated
their respective Focal Points and periodically assess their
performance/progress vis-a-vis their functions and the
implementation of the R.A.’s provisions.

SECTION 9. Sectoral WID Focal Points

(a) At the agency level, the WID Focal Points shall be strengthened to
institute the necessary changes in order that the guidelines set forth in pursuit of the
R.A.’s objectives shall be effectively and efficiently implemented. In this regard, the
NCRFW Memorandum Circular No. 89-1 shall be revised to specifically denote
that the WID Focal Point shall not be lower than an Undersecretary or its equivalent
rank in the case of Central Offices and not lower than the rank of an Assistant
Directory or its equivalent position at the sub-national levels. The revised Circular
shall explicitly state that the WID Focal Point shall not be limited to women officials.

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To ensure sustained efforts, Planning Offices of the various government
departments/agencies and instrumentalities or their equivalent/appropriate strategic
units, shall be designated as the technical secretariat of the WID Focal Points.

(b) The WID Focal Points shall serve as the catalysts for gender
responsive planning/programming in their respective agencies. They shall ensure
that disseminated guidelines are appropriately utilized and revised to suit emerging
developments. They shall ensure the conduct by appropriate staffs/units of periodic
assessments of policies, programs/projects, procedures and circulars which are
deemed discriminatory to gender concerns.

(c) Their functions relative to three primary sub-sectors namely, the internal
management; the women constituency; and the women employees of their
respective agencies shall remain to take effect, and in fact, are deemed highly
relevant to the implementation of the R.A. and its IRR.

(d) Relative to the highest official of the agency, they shall serve as an
advisory body on matters concerning gender issues and women in development,
conduct appropriate interventions that shall ensure and sustain their Management’s
critical consciousness and support, including their regular rendering of reports on
the progress of their activities within and outside the agency.

(e) Relative to their women constituency, they shall coordinate the

conduct of detailed assessments of the agency’s current policies, strategies and
programs with reference to the identified priority needs or concerns of women in
their respective sectors. They shall, likewise, initiate the evaluation of the current
set of statistics and indicators on women in the sector and accordingly, coordinate
the formulation of a comprehensive plan for gender responsive data management
system.

They shall also be expected to spearhead an assessment of the agency’s

performance relative to their targets. Moreover, they shall ensure that the required
inputs to the policy formulation and plan formulation, programs/projects and other
related outputs have adequately integrated gender concerns.

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 (f) Relative to the agencies’ women employees, the WID Focal Points
shall generate adequate and relevant statistics, illustrating the status of women in
their respective agencies. They shall also, in coordination with the Civil Service
Commission (CSC), initiate the evaluation of the impact on women of their agency’s
policies, rules and practices on hiring, promotion, training, administration of
benefits, etc. Also in partnership with CSC, they shall spearhead the development
of career pathing program and initiate the setting up of appropriate mechanism and
support systems. They shall also identify qualified employees within their agencies
who shall work with the CSC Equality Advocates to assist women employees who
are encountering problems of sexual harassment and discrimination.

(g) They shall ensure that their respective agencies have strong linkages and
partnerships with NGOs/POs who have integrated gender concerns in their
respective institutions, and promote their participation in various stages of the
planning cycle. They shall be tasked to coordinate and monitor the
operationalizaton of the guidelines and related undertakings at the sub-national and
field levels.

(h) They shall directly liaise with NEDA and NCRFW in matters
pertaining to the R.A. and the IRR.

RULE V
SUPPORT SYSTEMS AND REPORTING

SECTION 10. Support Systems and Capability Building Interventions

— The NCRFW shall continue to conduct training programs on Gender Sensitivity
and Gender Responsive Development Planning, and related programs in support
of the various entities tasked to primarily attend to the implementation of the R.A.’s
provisions.

(a) As a general rule, the NCRFW shall train key agency personnel who
can later become the agency’s pool of trainers.

(b) Gender Sensitivity and Consciousness Raising shall be undertaken for

selected policy makers at various levels, inclusive of the Local Government
Executives.

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 (c) Skills training programs on Gender Responsive Development Planning
shall be provided to the agencies’ Focal Points and selected key planners, programs
implementors and extension/field workers of critical or priority sectors.

(d) In aid of their critical responsibilities under this Act, key staffs of
NEDA, NCRFW, DILG and selected local government technical personnel shall
undergo intensive gender related technical courses and to the extent possible,
hands-on training activities.

(e) NCRFW shall explore with the Women’s Studies’ Consortia and
professional women’s groups the possibility of developing and implementing capability
building programs for selected NGOs/POs to facilitate their participation in the
development process, and more specifically in the implementation of the IRR.

(f) The regular holding of the Focal Point Assemblies shall be utilized as
venues for the upgrading of their technical competencies by inviting experts to speak
on topics related to Gender and Development.

(g) NCRFW shall assist concerned agencies in identifying experts,

resource persons and consultants who shall provide them more focused and sector-
specific interventions.

(h) In line with the integration objectives, agencies shall tap their regular
training budget for the dissemination of gender and development concepts and
skills’ development, initially to critical sectors within the agencies and across
positions and geographical levels. NCRFW shall also source out external
resources for the conduct of highly specialized training programs on Gender and
Development.

(i) In coordination with the NSCB, NSO and other data-producing agencies,
the NCRFW shall pursue the development and continuous refinement of a gender-
responsive data base and indicator system which shall assist agencies in all phases of the
development process from planning to monitoring and evaluation.

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 SECTION 11. Reporting Mechanisms and Procedures

(a) Existing monitoring and reporting systems shall be utilized to the extent
that these shall facilitate generation of the relevant information and required
documentation necessary for the compliance report to the Office of the President
and the Legislature.

(b) All government departments including their agencies and instrumentalities

shall submit their compliance report to Congress every six months upon effectivity of
the IRR. These government departments shall also furnish copies of the compliance
reports to NCRFW as inputs to the consolidated Special Cabinet Report on Women
to the Office of the President, and to the NEDA as inputs to the Philippine
Development Report (PDR). These reports shall reflect activities at both the central
and field offices.

(c) The government departments shall be given one month and a half to
generate the reports from their field offices. The first semestral report shall be due
on or before the third week of August and the second semestral report on or before
the third week of February.

(d) The first report for the year shall essentially cover the following points:

(1) analytical situationer on the status of gender responsive

planning/programming (highlighting on the current vis-a-vis
desired situation);

(2) agency’s thrusts on gender and development;

(3) policies/procedures and circulars for review/modification for

the year;

(4) agency’s budgetary (domestic sources) estimates and activities

earmarked for the year;

(5) estimated ODA funds earmarked for gender-related/women

activities; and

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 (6) status/progress of activities.

(e) The second report shall cover the actual implementation of policies,
plans, programs and projects during the year.

(f) These above-mentioned agency reports shall be made available to other

Government Offices (GOs), NGOs/POs and other groups who shall indicate their
interests.

RULE VI
BUDGET AND FINAL PROVISIONS

SECTION 12. Budgetary Support

The activities embodied in this IRR shall be implemented using the regular
budget of the government departments/agencies. In cases where some critical
activities can not be funded from the regular budgets, the concerned government
departments/agencies, and the LGUs shall be advised to source these from supple-
mental budgetary requests.

SECTION 13. Effectivity

These rules and regulations shall take effect immediately upon approval.

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 Annexes

A - Social Development Committee

Resolution No. 5 (Series of 1992)

B- Glossary of Terms

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 Annex A

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

RESOLUTION NO. 5 (Series of 1992)

A RESOLUTION APPROVING
THE IMPLEMENTING RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR
SECTIONS 2, 3, 4 OF REPUBLIC ACT 7192

WHEREAS, Republic Act (RA) 7192, otherwise known as An Act

Promoting the Integration of Women as Full and Equal Partners of Men in
Development and Nation Building and For Other Purposes, mandates the National
Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) the task of ensuring the participation
of women as recipients of foreign aid, grants and loans in pursuance to the said
R.A.;

WHEREAS, the same R.A. provides that NEDA with the assistance of the
National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women (NCRFW) shall coordinate
the implementation of theAct’s provisions which, among others, mandates the different
government departments, including its agencies and instrumentalities to integrate the
participation of women in national development;

WHEREAS, after consultations with the different government departments

and agencies through the Women in Development (WID) Focal Points and selected
non-government organizations, NEDA has formulated the Implementing Rules and
Regulations of Section 2, 3, and 4 of the said Act;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, as it is hereby resolved, by

the Chairman and the members of the Social Development Committee (SDC) to
approve as it is hereby approved the Implementing Rules and Regulations of Section
2, 3, and 4 of R.A. 7192.

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 Hon. NIEVES R. CONFESOR
Secretary, Department of Labor & Employment
Chairman, Social Development Committee

Hon. CIELITO F. HABITO

Secretary, Socio-economic Planning
Co-Chairman, Social Development Committee

Hon. ROBERTO S. SEBASTIAN Hon. JUAN M. FLAVIER

Secretary Secretary
Department of Agriculture Department of Health

Hon. ERNESTO D. GARILAO Hon. ARMANDO V. FABELLA

Secretary Secretary
Department of Agrarian Reform Department of Education,
Culture & Sports

Hon. RAFAEL M. ALUNAN III Hon. CORAZON ALMA DE LEON

Secretary Acting Secretary
Department of Interior Department of Social Welfare
and Local Government and Development

Hon. EDELMIRO AMANTE

Executive Secretary

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 Annex B

GLOSSARY OF TERMS

1. Women in Development (WID) - A development framework/approach

which gives recognitiion to the distinct needs and capacities of women with
considerable focus on developing strategies and action programs that will
facilitate their participation in the productive sector.

The application of the WID approach has tended to result into the
development and implementationof income-generating activities where
women undergo skills' trainings and are organized into marketing
cooperatives or similar productive groups. As women are taught
productive skills, they are simultaneously given continuing interventions
in the areas of hygiene, literacy, childcare, and other related traditional
concerns.

2. Gender and Development (GAD) - A more recent framework/approach

which reflects a change in outlook from that of women's lack of participation
in the productive sector to that which recognizes the disparities of women and
men in al aspects/sectors of development.

GAD proceeds from the premise that culturally defined roles of women and
men have reinforced the unequal gender relations, resulting in the
marginalization of both sexes in varying circumstances and magnitude. As
such, their respective needs have to be simultaneously addessed to, whenver
feasible, in order that the women shal fully benefit from and maximize the full
merits of development programs/projects.

The GAD approach seeks not only to full integrate women into the
development process but also to continually search for new and
innovative initiatives that will help transform unequal social/gender
relations into creative opportunities that would equally benefit both
women and men.

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 While development workers and academicians do not discount the
usefulness of WID approaches in addressing the needs of women, there
is a worldwide shift to adopt the GAD framework as a more realistic tool
for analysis to help determine the extent of the benefits derived by both
men and women from development programs/projects. To the extent
possible, all plans and programs/projects must be able to address the
needs of both men and women.

3. Gender-Responsive Development Planning (GRDP) - Also

known as Gender Responsive Planning, GRDP is simply the
operationalization and integration of the GAD framework into the entire
development planning cycle. It rests on the premise that introducing
gender considerations makes development planning/programming
more "people oriented or people focused". Gender is one source of
heterogeneity along with education, ethnicity, class and other socio-
deographic variables, all of which determine to a large extent the
manner by which development plans and programs/projects impact on
different groups of people.

4. Mainstreaming Gender Concerns in Development - This essentially

means enabling the participation of women in the development agenda/
process by purposively and deliberately incorporating/counting in their
concerns in the development programs/projects of implementing agencies.

Marginalization - A term used to denote the negative connotation associated

with certain development approaches which tend to focus on traditional
programs/projects to operationalize women's participation in the development
process. These interventions are those related with maternal and child care,
day-care centers and nutrition activities, among others. With these perspective,
women's concerns remain limited to these traditional areas. Their needs and
potentials in the other areas, particularly in the economic sectors remain
unrecognized, hence, their full development as a distinct resource of society is
not achieved.

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