Why a Framework Plan for Women?

• Need for more concrete basis for agency planning and budgeting on GAD

• Need to focus on outcomes and impacts desired

• Need for clearer directions to guide agencies in developing capacities for gender mainstreaming

What is it all about?

• It is a time-slice of the Philippine Plan for Gender - Responsive Development (PPGD), 1995-2025 and is a practical tool for operationalizing it.

• It is a three-year directional plan. It sets realistic directions for program interventions for agencies and is a tool for planning and budgeting.

• It is the major instrument that address to the directive issued by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for NCRFW during the celebration of National Women’s Day, March 8, 2001, to formulate the FPW along with three thrusts: promoting woman’s economic environment, advanced and protecting women’s human rights and promoting gender responsive governance.

What it contains?

• Concrete gender issues that need to be addressed

• Targets and indicators

• Illustrative responses or program enhancements

• Implementation plan

• Mechanisms and tools for monitoring and evaluation

EMERGING THRUSTS AND PRIORITIES:

What should be done immediately?

1. Promoting Economic Empowerment of Women

• Reviewieng of existing economic programs for women towards consolidating these programs for greater impact

• Identifying and reviewing existing key economic programs for women and enhancing women’s access to economic resources such as capital, technology, information, market and training

• Addressing the negative impacts of globalization of women

2. Advancing and Protecting Women’s Human Rights

• Ensuring effective delivery of health services throughout the women’s life cycle

• Ensuring the responsiveness of government programs on women, particularly on VAW, including access to justice and crisis interventions

• Assisting women in difficult circumstances (refugee women, women in conflict and disaster areas, prostituted women, etc.)

3. Promoting Gender - Responsive Governance

• Promoting and supporting women’s leadership towards good governance (competence, commitment, transparency and accountability)

• Promoting full participation of women in political processes and governance in the international and national local levels

• Strengthening gender sensitive and inclusive programs and mechanisms with civil society