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Partnership and Synergy Towards A GREATer Philippines
Ruby A and B Function Room, Crowne Plaza Galleria Manila, Ortigas Center, Pasig City PARALLEL SESSION A: Sharing of Good Practices to Create the National and Local Enabling Environment for Women’s Economic Empowerment
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| PARALLEL SESSION A-1.1: Mainstreaming and Sustaining WEE Efforts | 1. Iloilo Province
Mr. Mario Nillos
PPDO and Co-Chair, PTWG for GWP-Iloilo
| Gender Mainstreaming in Programs and Projects of Iloilo Provincial Government Capacity development on gender analysis under the GREAT Women Project enabled Iloilo to appreciate the importance of gender mainstreaming in local programs and projects. This sharing demonstrates how a rural waterworks and sanitation project is made more responsive through gender analysis and how learning from this experience prompted the province to issue an executive order to institutionalize the integration of gender concerns in all stages of project development and implementation. | 2. Department of Science
and Technology (DOST)
Ms. Blesshe Querijero
Assistant Scientist and DOST GAD Mainstreaming Program Coordinator
| Pursuing Gender Responsive Science and Technology
This presentation discusses the effort of DOST to assess the gender responsiveness of technologies used by MSMEs assisted by the agency. Assessment covers human resource, machinery, equipment, tools and accessories, and raw materials used in production. The paper also includes recommendations to further strengthen and sustain agency efforts on gender mainstreaming. This experience highlights how gender mainstreaming can happen in a highly technical organization like DOST.
| 3. Quezon Province
Ms. Ofelia Palayan
Head, PGAD and Chairperson, PTWG for GWP
| Emerging Good Practices in Creating the Local Enabling Environment for Women Micro-Entrepreneurs: The Quezon Province Experience
Quezon Province is replicating GREAT Women Project initiatives in 8 other municipalities that are not partners of the project. The presentation explains how and why replication was decided and also describes the cost- and resource-sharing arrangements between the province, the 8 municipalities, the pilot municipalities and the GREAT Women Project. This paper is an example of sustaining and spreading the benefits of an enabling environment for women’s economic empowerment. | | 4. Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA)
Ms. Ma. Clara B. Ignacio
Center Chief, TESDA Women's Center
| Institutionalizing Gender in TVET
This presentation highlights the process of mainstreaming gender and entrepreneurship in the TVET curriculum through the development of standard training modules.The integration of two training modules hopes to stimulate the tech-vocpreneurship capabilities of women, thus increasing their opportunities to be economically productive. | A-1.2: Innovations in Policy and Planning for Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE)
| 5. Infanta, Quezon
Ms. Armida Marquez
HRMO IV and Focal Person for GWP
| When WEE See through the Lens Infanta’s GAD Code models excellent provisions that appropriately respond to women’s economic empowerment. The presentation will also share how the GAD code is being operationalized and integrated in the municipality’s comprehensive development plan, in the Infanta Sustainable Agriculture and Fishery Program and in its Annual Investment Plan. Infanta will also share its ongoing effort to review and enhance its revenue code to make it more friendly to women micro-entrepreneurs. | 6. Buenavista, Bohol
Mr. Efren Logronio
PDC and Focal Person for GWP
| Integrating WEE in the AIP and Allocating Funds Therefor: The GREAT Women Project Experience in Buenavista, Bohol With the implementation of the GREAT Women Project, the municipality started the participatory process and instituted changes in the focus of the annual investment plan (AIP) and comprehensive development plan. Their AIP is not about infrastructure and other routinary expenses alone but it now has provisions and budget for programs that support capacity development and women’s economic empowerment. Their GAD plan is now more properly formulated with gender analysis and corresponding budget. The challenge is how to follow through or monitor and sustain these initiatives. | PARALLEL SESSION A-2.1: Providing Convergent and Comprehensive Services for Women Micro-Entrepreneurs (WMEs) | | 7. Jagna, Bohol
Ms. Nimfa LLoren
President, LCW and Chairperson, TWG for GWP in Jagna, Bohol
| Orchestrating Change: Managing Multi-stakeholder Partnership
in Advancing Gender and Development Jagna, Bohol is known for its calamay, a local delicacy made from glutinous rice. The producers of calamay are mostly women who prepare calamay in their homes. Like most home-based enterprises, the women lack technical know how to enable them to improve their product, market and capital support. Under the GREAT Women Project, the local government of Jagna orchestrated a convergence of national and local government partners assist calamay producers enhance their organization, improve their technology and market prospects. This model is expected to pave the way for a more sustained and comprehensive support to other microentrepreneurs in the locality. | | 8. MNDC
Mr. Reuel Oliver
Executive Director, MNDC
| One-Stop Women Enterprise Development Desks: Spurring LGU-Led Gender-Responsive Enterprise Development With the implementation of GREAT, a more systematic LGU-based support mechanism is being put in place to serve as a focal point for delivery of comprehensive services for women micro-entrepreneurs by LGUs, NGAs and other partners. OSWEDD (One-stop women enterprise development desk) is a concept applicable to other municipalities. NGAs and other partners involved in enterprise development programs are more adept in reviewing the responsiveness of their programs and to synchronize their efforts to maximize resources use and their impact. | | A.2.2: Showcasing NGO-LGU-NGA Partnerships in Promoting WEE | | 9. Barugo, Leyte
Mayor Alden Avestruz
Barugo, Leyte
Ms. Pauline Lawsin Nayra
Executive Director, Runggiyan Social Development Foundation | Barugo and Runggiyan: Working together for WEE The presentation of Barugo showcases the collaboration between an NGO and an LGU in working for women’s economic empowerment. Runggiyan Social Development Foundation, an NGO based in Barugo has been supporting the municipality through various interventions since 2004, such that gender responsiveness has gained acceptance in the LGU. The receptiveness of the LGU to gender-related interventions facilitated the entry and internalization of the GREAT project. Runggiyan assisted the municipality in capacity development of the LGU and of women micro-entrepreneurs, leading to significant results in terms of policies and programs supportive of women’s economic empowerment. The sharing highlights the importance of partnership and participatory approaches in light of limited resources in the LGU. | 10. Pavia, Iloilo
Mr. Baltazar Gumana
MPDC and Focal Person, GWP for Pavia, Iloilo
Ms. Joy Palmada
President, Eco-Savers Bank
| Pavia LGU – Cooperative Partnership and the Eco-Savers’ Bank
While this has been in place before the GREAT project, the experience of Pavia is a good example of LGU-NGO partnership in identifying income generating activities for women that have positive environmental impact. The sharing explains how the eco-savers’ bank started and how it is operated to provide livelihood for women and their families. | PARALLEL SESSION A-3: Environment and Social Management Framework
| PCW and DENR Ms. Teresita M. Salud
Deputy Director, PCW with Ms. Elenida del Rosario- Basug
Chief, Environmental Education and Information Division, EMB, DENR | Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF) for the Great Women Project
The session will provide an overview of the Philippines’ current environmental state and the role of the GREAT Women Project in advocating environmental sustainability and social accountability vis-à-vis women’s economic empowerment through the Environmental and Social Management Framework. Through small group discussions, it will solicit the comments and inputs of the partners, especially those from the local areas, on the ESMF.
The ESMF is a guide to PCW and implementing partners of GREAT in addressing environmental and social risks and impacts of sub-projects supported by the project. It describes 1) sources or factors or environmental and social risks and impacts; 2) the means for identifying and assessing the scope and extent of these risks and impacts; 3) delineates the governing principles and instruments for addressing them; and 4) the criteria and listing of projects that are ineligible for financing or other forms of support by the project DENR Presentations: |
PARALLEL SESSION B: Sharing of Resource Partners on their Programs and Services Related to Enterprise Development | Focus of Presentations and Discussions | | Presenter/s: Organization | Focus of Presentations and Discussions
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| PARALLEL SESSION B-1: Government Business Development and Support Services | 1. Ms. Marcelina Alcantara
DTI Provincial Director, Quezon | Breaking Barriers : DTI
The presentation focuses on DTI‘s programs and services for the micro, small and medium enterprises. Strategies and programs include the OTOP Flagship Projects, the SMEDSEP, the RuMEPP and the provision of technical assistance such as business counseling, skills and entrepreneurial training, product design and development, appropriate technologies and marketing. | 2. Director Tomas Brinas
Regional Director, DOST Region 5 | The Small Enterprises Technology Upgrading (SET-UP) Program
The SET-UP is a nationwide strategy to encourage and assist MSMEs to adopt technological innovations to improve their operations. This presentation explains the elements or components of the program, the benefits to MSMEs and the procedures and requirements to avail of the SET-UP assistance.
| 3. Ms. Gilda Salvacion A. Diaz
Senior Manager, International and Local Cooperation Dept.
PhilHealth | Integration and Promotion of Women Economic Empowerment in the National Health Insurance Program (NHIP)
Quezon Province is replicating GREAT Women Project initiatives in 8 other municipalities that are not partners of the project. The presentation explains how and why replication was decided and also describes the cost- and resource-sharing arrangements between the province, the 8 municipalities, the pilot municipalities and the GREAT Women Project. This paper is an example of sustaining and spreading the benefits of an enabling environment for women’s economic empowerment. | PARALLEL SESSION B-2: NGO Business Development and Support Services | 1. Ms. Ester Gamboa
Promotions Manager, APFTI | Markets Development for Fair Trade This features APFTI’s development initiatives, with particular focus on the “MaDe (Market Development) for Fair Trade Project”. It is a collaborative project that aims to establish a vibrant fair trade market in the Philippines for the benefit the poor and disadvantage producers. Components of the project include: consumer research/market study; producer competitiveness building; fair trade capacity building; building fair trade distribution channels; and, fair trade advocacy and marketing. | 2. Ms. Feri Lumampao
Executive Director, APPROTECH ASIA | Technology and Finance and the Entrepreneurial Poor This presents the current projects for the entrepreneurial poor in selected areas of the country. The projects are on technology transfer and financing for food enterprises which are women-dominated undertakings. | 3. Ms. Ma. Rocelyn Bernabe
Program Manager, PBSP-BAP
| Philippine Business for Social Progress: Reducing Poverty Thru Enterprise Development This presentation features the Poverty Reduction Programs of PBSP at the community level, focusing on enterprise development. The programs include the small and medium enterprise credit (SMEC) program, the business in development challenge (BiD) and the business advisory program. Guidelines and criteria for enrolment in these programs and its scheme for delivery of business advisory services are highlighted. | 4. Mr. Jerry Pacturan
Executive Director, PDAP-PRIME | Developing and Strengthening MSMEs Value Chain and Industry Cluster for Poverty Reduction
This discussion highlights the types of interventions at different levels of growth and development of rural enterprises that PDAP involves itself with. Examples of these interventions are collaborations and engagement among government, development and business sector, the PRIME Project and opportunities for marketing of natural and organic products.
| | 5. Ms. Josephine C. Parilla
National Coordinator for Networking from Rizal, PATAMABA | The PATAMABA Experience: Organizing, Advocacy and Enterprise Building – Issues of Informal Work, Social Protection, Poverty and Gender
This presentation shows how women in the informal economy are at the forefront of its interventions. PATAMABA shows through its five poverty reduction thrusts of social security, justice and protection of/at workplaces and protection from violence; human development services; asset reform; participation in governance; and employment in enterprises the services and opportunities that the women in the informal sector can access and utilize to realize decent work conditions. | | PARALLEL SESSION B-3: MFI Services | 1. Dr. Jaime Aristotle B. Alip
Founder and Managing Director, CARD-MRI | Microfinance: The CARD-MRI Experience
The discussion presents CARD’s Business Practices and business support initiatives such as the Citigroup Microentrepreneur of the Year awards and the HAPINOY project.
| | 2. Ms. Lalaine Joyas
Executive Director, MCPI Ms. Joy Palmada
President, Eco-Savers Bank | The Microfinance Council of the Philippines, Inc.
The presentation summarizes MCPI’s key programs and 10-year accomplishments. Its programs are geared toward advocacy, capacity building, social performance management, performance monitoring and benchmarking, knowledge and resource center operation and network strengthening. | 3. Ms. Mercedes Abad
Chairperson, ASHI | Promoting Social Protection for Women
This presentation discusses the different strategies, programs and reach of ASHI that benefit women and their families. The discussion further focuses on services and interventions under their Social Program Department and on their gender mainstreaming initiatives.
| 4. Ms. Emelina M. Santos
Group Head, Member Relations and Networking, NATCCO | Microfinance Innovations in Cooperatives
The presentation highlights the concept and strategies of Microfinance Innovations in Cooperatives Program (MICOOP).These include different partnership schemes such as BOAT, technical assistance, joint venture, and products and services under the program.
| 5. Ms. Lourdes T. Baua
Assistant Secretary
Department of Trade and Industries (DTI) | Harmonized DTI Projects on Gender Responsive Enterprise Development with Focus on Food and Marine Sector
| | 4. Occupational Safety and Health Center | Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) fpr Women Workers in Small Enterprises and Informal Economy |
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GREAT Women Project Partners' Forum
