News Release Draft

Department of Labor and Employment

2 June 2014

Gender and Development practices and systems to be mainstreamed in ResultsBased GAD Action Plan for 2014-2016

Towards enhancing gender and development related programs and projects, Labor
and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz said that GAD practices and
systems at the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) shall be mainstreamed
into a Results-Based GAD Action Plan for 2014 to 2016 to ensure gender equality on
labor and employment.

In her speech during the National GAD Planning and Budgeting Conference in Baguio
City last week, Baldoz said that the Conference will ensure that proposed
recommendations should be mainstreamed into a Results-Based GAD Action Plan
2014-2016 as part of the programs, projects, and activities under the DOLE Planning
Tool, to include performance indicators to measure progress for gender and
development outcomes.

To improve in the GAD reporting and monitoring, Baldoz added that the Department
has also included the performance indicators to measure progress for gender and
development outcomes.

The Department plans to finalize and approve the GAD Action and Budget Plan on July.
The said GAD plan shall also be endorsed to the Philippine Commission on Women.

About 165 heads of agencies, regional offices, GAD focal and alternates attended the
National GAD Planning and Budgeting Conference which was aimed improving,
reorienting, and reforming the delivery and implementation of GAD programs ,
activities, and projects.

During the National GAD Planning and Budgeting Conference, the Departments GAD
focal persons and alternates, reviewed the previous and existing GAD programs,
projects, and activities; examined the issues and challenges which arose from the
implementation of DOKLE GAD PAPs; clarified questions on DOLA GAD policy
matters; and developed a GAD framework aligned with the National GAD Plan and
Framework.
Baldoz explained that the DOLE's GAD initiatives must conform to global and national
policy framework to include, among others, the UN Convention on the Elimination of all
Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW); Philippine Plan for Gender and
Development for 1995-2025; Beijing Platform for Action; Declaration on the Elimination
of Violence Against Women, the Millennium Development Goals, the WEDGE
(Womens Empowerment, Development and Gender Equity Plan, 2013-2016), and COA
Circular 2014-0011.
In her address, the labor chief also outlined the DOLE's accomplishments in response
to the recommendations in the ILO-supported 2011 Participatory Gender Audit by DOLE

which assessed the quality of gender mainstreaming in DOLE programs for its
personnel and clients.
Baldoz also summed up the activities undertaken by DOLE after the 2011 Participatory
Gender Audit which provided 12-point key recommendations on gender mainstreaming.
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