Understanding violence against women : core messages for services, training,education,and advocacy
This booklet serves as a practical, relevant and handy reference on the nature of VAW, how it affects women and men's lives, why it happens and some guidance for those who help victims/ survivors and offenders. It is intended for use of the different frontline agencies addressing issues on VAW like the PNP, DSWD, DOH, DOJ, DILG, etc.
Barangay Protection Order : a primer
This publication is intended as a concise reference material for use of baranggay officials in dealing with VAW cases as stipulated in RA 9262 or the "Anti-Violence Against Women and Their Children Act of 2005." It provides answers to a list of commonly asked questions regarding the law and how to implement it.
Gender-responsive governance at work
The case studies document the experiences of LGUs in different regions and in different levels of local governance. They are regarded as good practices in gender mainstreaming and were compiled to stress the importance of addressing gender issues in relation to development. The case studies provide important information and insights regarding the implementation of the GAD budget policy at the local level, strategies for and future outcomes of gender mainstreaming, and areas for future action. The compilation intends to provide guidance for other LGUs in the implementation of their gender and development activities.
CEDAW Fact sheets
A compilation of Philippine statistical data covering the areas of concerns stipulated in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Violence Against Women (CEDAW) namely health and nutrition, education and training, population, families and households, politics and governance, labor and employment, violence against women, and overseas employment.
Gender budgeting in the Philippines : issues
This appraisal report analyzes the issues and challenges the Philippine government faced in mainstreaming gender and in implementing the GAD Budget policy. This report also provides recommendations on how to improve or further engender budgeting systems and processes.
Republic Act 9262 - Anti-Violence Against Women and Their Children Act of 2004 and Implementing Rules and Regulations
Republic Act 9208 - Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003 and Implementing Rules and Regulations
FOR SALE PUBLICATIONS
Ways to Gender Responsive Organizations: Tools and Guides for Sowing Gender Responsiveness in Government Organizations
National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women
Manila: Canadian International Development Agency, 2002
118 p.
This tool has for its target users those involved in human resources management and development as well as members of the gender and development focal points in the various agencies.
180.00 Php.
Mainstreaming Gender in Development Planning: Framework and Guidelines
National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women
National Economic and Development Authority
Manila: Canadian International Development Agency, 2002
83 p.
This manual aims to guide development planners on ways of mainstreaming gender in every phase of the development planning process, namely: (a) identification of issues and challenges, goals and objectives, targets, policies and strategies, programs and projects, implementation mechanism; and (b) monitoring and evaluation.
150.00 Php.
Guidebook in Using Statistics for Gender-Responsive Local Development Planning
National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women
Manila: Canadian International Development Agency, 2002
171 p.
This guidebook is aimed not only to contribute to the development and strengthening of gender-responsive databases at the local level but also to provide a guide for producing gender statistics necessary in formulating, implementing and monitoring a gender-responsive plan. It is designed mainly to benefit the LGUs, specifically the municipal and provincial planning development offices. It should also be useful for members of Regional Statistical Coordination Committees, researchers in the field of GAD, statisticians and academicians.
150.00 Php.
A Guidebook on Gender Mainstreaming: How Far Have We Gone?
National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women
Manila: Canadian International Development Agency, 2002
This guidebook is aimed primarily to help the agencies' Gender and Development (GAD) Focal Points, members of their technical working groups and other related GAD committees do their mainstreaming work. It presents the gender mainstreaming evaluation framework (GMEF) which can be used to track their progress and provides them with a holistic view of the gender mainstreaming process. It is most useful to technical people (e.g. planners, monitors, evaluators and analysts) who have a basic knowledge of GAD concepts.
200.00 Php.
Laws on Women
Atty. Myrna S. Feliciano and Atty. Flordeliza C. Vargas-Trinidad
Manila: National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women, 2000
63 p.
This set of publication covers laws enacted from 1900 to 2000, and provide a gender analysis of about 14,958 statutes. It serves as an essential tool for legislators, gender and development advocates and lay readers in the struggle for gender responsive legislation towards women's empowerment.
Vol. I - contains the annotated list of laws.
Vol. II - contains the full text of the laws
450.00 Php.
Guidelines for Integrating Gender Concerns in the Development Processes: A Manual for the Philippine Development Plan for Women Implementation in Northern Mindanao
National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women
National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), Region X, 1994
Manila: Canadian International Development Agency
107 p., reprinted 1998
The manual is a product of a one-year pilot testing project on the required processes and mechanisms for the Philippine Development Plan for Women in the effort to implement R.A. 7192 in Northern Mindanao (Region X). Applicable to both spatial and socio-economic gender-responsive planning, programming, and monitoring, these guidelines will not supplant but enhance the effectiveness of existing development guidelines at the regional and local levels. Each chapter is independent of one another; hence, development planners can use this in any phase of the development process.
250.00 Php.
Philippine Plan for Gender-Responsive Development (1995-2025)
National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women
Manila: NCRFW, 1995
448 p.
The PPGD lays out development goals and strategies that will make gender equity innate in public programs and policies. This 30-year perspective plan ensures that women-friendly policies can take root and flourish despite the barriers posed by traditional attitudes and stereotyping.
475.00 Php.
Gender and Development: Making the Bureaucracy Gender-Responsive: A Sourcebook for Advocates, Planners, and Implementors
Torres, Amaryllis T., Ph.D. and Prof. Rosario S. del Rosario with the assistance of Prof. Rosalinda Pineda
Ofreneo for UNIFEM and NCRFW
Manila: United Nations Fund for Women, 1994.
162 p.
This sourcebook embodies the results of the original assessments undertaken in six government departments. It elaborates a theory and methodology for identifying gender concerns, including the use of gender analysis. It places importance on the human dimension of the planning process, which necessitates the use of participatory strategies. This sourcebook is for the use of anyone in the line agencies concerned with developing strategies for mainstreaming gender, be it in the internal organization, in programs and projects at the level of the central agency or in the localities they serve, or for the development of gender-responsive policies and departmental objectives.
250.00 Php.
Toward a Gender-Responsive Legislation
Developed by Aida F. Santos, Eleanor C. Conda & Maria Dulce F. Natividad for the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women, 1999
Toward a Gender-Responsive Legislation aims to assist legislators in making legislative systems and processes gender-responsive. Acknowledging the key role of legislation in promoting gender and development, the NCRFW embarked on a two-year project which now finds expression in this 2-volume publication.
Volume 1 :
concentrates on the basic concepts on gender and development
(100.00 Php.)
Volume 2 :
translates these concepts for practical application in actual legislative
work
(200.00 Php.)
COMPLIMENTARY PUBLICATION
Moving Forward with GAD: A Handbook on Gender and Development for the Sanggunian Committee on Women and Family
Department of Interior and Local Government
National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women
Women in Nation Building
United Nations Children's Fund
Manila: NCRFW, 2003
This guide aims to provide a structured approach to inculcating gender-responsiveness in local governments. It initially defines gender and development, the issues affecting women and families, and the role and mandate of the Sanggunian. It then discusses how the committee members can push the GAD agenda through policy making, planning and budgeting and cites the success of similar LGUs. Finally, it stresses the importance of network building as a source strength and support.
Directory of Non-Government Organizations Working on Women
National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women
Manila: NCRFW, 2003
The Directory contains basic information on existing women NGOs including other development organizations and institutions with projects and programs for women. It serves not only as a networking tool among women GOs, NGOs, the academe, and other institutions but also as a medium of referral to the general public.
Making LGUs Gender Responsive: A Primer for Local Chief Executives
National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women
Manila: NCRFW, 2002
67 p.
This Primer serves as an advocacy material for local chief executives in understanding and appreciating gender and development. It provides basic information on how the LCEs can initiate the process to respond to the gender issues of their women constituents.
Barangay to the Rescue: Handbook for Handling Cases of Domestic Violence in the Barangay
Alexandra Pura
Manila : DILG-NCRFW-CIDA, 2002
68p.
This handbook provides the basic procedural guide for barangay officials in preventing domestic violence and protecting survivors.
Gender-Responsive Local Planning and Budgeting: A Guidebook for Beginners
Ermelita V. Valdeavilla
Manila : DILG-NCRFW, 2002
122 p.
A DILG-NCRFW publication, this guidebook provides the guidelines for preparing gender-responsive plan and utilizing the GAD budget of local government units. It also presents the major development plans being developed by LGUs and discusses how gender could be mainstreamed in each of them.
Making Financing Projects Work for Women
National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women
Manila : United Nations Development Programme, 2000
45 p.
This handbook will serve as a ready reference for practitioners, planners and implementors and advocates alike,in their efforts to address gender concerns in cooperatives and other self-help institutions which speak of a large number of female memberships, yet males occupy leadership positions.
Women and Gender-Responsive Initiatives in Selected Regions: A Rapid Field Appraisal
National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women
Manila: Canadian International Development Agency, 1999
101 p.
This report represents the result of the rapid field appraisal (RFA) of women and gender-responsive initiatives in four selected regions, namely, Regions VI, XII, XIII (or CARAGA) and ARMM. It also contains analytical profiles of gender-responsive and GAD-related initiatives and inventory of GAD-related resources.
Transforming the Mainstream: Building a Gender-Responsive Bureaucracy in the Philippines 1975-1998
Jurgette A. Honculada and Rosalinda Pineda-Ofreneo
Manila: United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2000
214 p.
This book traces the long and varied history of the NCRFW from its early days as a rather traditional women's organization to its pioneering work in envisioning gender mainstreaming and striving to put that vision into concrete practice. UNIFEM support to NCRFW over much of its history and for the writing of this monograph stems from a shared sense of mission in weaving both women and gender perspectives into the heart of the development and decision making processes.
Handbook of Gender Responsive Participatory Tools for Community-Based Forest Management
Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Canadian International Development Agency and
National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women
Manila: DENR, CIDA, NCRFW, 1999
146 p.
This handbook contains tools for mainstreaming gender and development in Community-Based Forest Management. It supports the development principle that real development happens in people, and must therefore include a process of engaging the active participation of people as change agents themselves.
Filipino Women: Issues and Trends
National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women
Manila: NCRFW, 1995
168 p.
This book contains a compilation of statistics on women in population, families and households, labor and employment, education, health and public life. It includes a trend analysis as well as a set of statistical tables on the overall topics.
Plan Framework of the Philippine Plan for Gender-Responsive Development 1995-2025
National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women
Manila: NCRFW, 1996
37 p.
This is a reprint of the first two chapters of the Philippine Plan for Gender-Responsive Development (1995-2025). It outlines the macro context and the basic socio-cultural, economic, political and legal framework. In macro context, the PPGD rests on a vision of development that is equitable, sustainable, free from violence, respectful of human rights, supportive of self-determination and the actualization of human potentials and participatory and empowering. In basic framework, a plan is only as good as its implementation and its implementation, on the other hand, is only as good as the will, the resources, and the people who choose to undertake the plan in its concrete form.
How to be a Gender-Responsive Legislator
Aileen Gianan-Villareal
Manila: NCRFW, 2001
This handbook provides legislators with fundamental information on gender and development in the context of lawmaking.
Transforming Women's Lives: The Philippine Experience (Country Report, June 2000)
National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women
Manila: NCRFW, 2000
This discusses how the Philippine government translated the BPA commitments into concrete measures and initiatives for women five years after Beijing.
PUBLICATIONS DEVELOPED IN COLLABORATION WITH PARTNERS
Sexual Harassment Cases: A Compendium
Civil Service Commission
Quezon City : CSC, 2003
117 p.
A CSC-NCRFW publication, this compendium covers cases of sexual harassment decided by the Civil Service Commission, the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court from 1994 to 2000. The reader is provided with an insight into how things stand in administrative and judicial tribunals relative to sexual harassment. In a sense, this compendium provides us a picture of how the fight against sexual harassment is going. It will also tell us what to do to win.
Fighting Sexual Harassment in the Bureaucracy: A Manual
Civil Service Commission
National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women
Quezon City: CSC-NCRFW, 2002
105 p.
A CSC-NCRFW publication, this manual provides the general principles to be followed when resolving sexual harassment cases and presents step-by-step procedure in handling complaints.
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Gender Mainstreaming and Institutionalization in the Budgeting Process: A Primer
Department of Budget and Management
Manila: NCRFW, 2002
35 p.
A DBM-NCRFW publication, this primer provides budget analysts and local budget officers the mechanics on how to evaluate and review the various GAD budget proposals submitted by NGAs, GOCCs and LGUs.
Refinement of the Existing Gender and Development Indicator System
National Statistical Coordination Board
Manila: NCRFW-CIDA, 2001
26 p.
This publication by NSCB and NCRFW presents core GAD along the Beijing Platform for Action Areas of Concerns, together with data sources and estimation methodology.
Glossary on Violence Against Women and other related concepts (for statistical purposes)
National Statistical Coordination Board
Manila: NCRFW-CIDA, 2001
22 p.
This glossary developed by NSCB and NCRFW contains basic concepts related to the generation of statistics on violence against women and children. It hopes to promote a common understanding and interpretation of statistics on VAWC.
2001 Statistical Handbook on Violence Against Women and Children
National Statistical Coordination Board
Manila: NCRFW-CIDA, 2001
119 p.
This publication presents the 2001 statistics on the prevalence of violence against women and children based on data gathered from administrative in-take forms used by various government and non-government agencies in handling cases of VAWC.