The GAD Plan
The GAD Plan is a set of interventions designed to make the agency's and LGU's regular programs, projects, and activities, both for the clientele and its own staff, gender-responsive. Interventions contained in the GAD Plans must address the twin concerns of GAD mainstreaming, namely:
Building capacities of the agency/LGU to address the gender issues and women concerns in all aspects of its work;
Making its own development plans, policies, budgets, and programs, projects and services gender-responsive, so that these lead to women's empowerment, gender equity and equality.
Agencies have to develop both a medium-term GAD Plan covering a period of four to six years, and an annual GAD Plan which is a yearly slice of the medium-term plan. Both of these should be consistent with the agency/LGU mandate and must take their directions from the PPGD or its medium-term implementation framework of its agenda for women empowerment.
The GAD Budget Policy
The GAD budget is a measure mandating agencies and LGUs to provide resources necessary for implementing programs, projects and activities designed to address gender issues and promote women's empowerment and gender equality as identified in their GAD plan. The cost of implementing the GAD plan should at least be 5% of their total budget.
The 5% GAD Budget endeavors to directly influence the remaining 95% of agency/LGU budget toward gender-responsiveness.
Gender-responsive organization : to make these regular programs and projects gender-sensitive to meet the differential needs of women and men who are working within the agency.
Gender-responsive development planning : to ensure that gender-responsive plans and programs tackle the gender issues and concerns for women empowerment of the agency constituency and external client.