This document provides an orientation on gender and development (GAD) mandates for the education sector in the Philippines. It discusses national and international mandates that require promoting GAD, including allocating at least 5% of agency budgets to GAD programs. Schools often reinforce gender stereotypes, so targeted interventions are needed. Key gender issues in Philippine education include boys' underperformance, discrimination against indigenous peoples, gender segregation in higher education, and lack of safe/responsive environments for girls. The document outlines GAD planning and budgeting requirements for the Department of Education, including establishing a GAD focal point system and conducting gender audits. It provides guidance on what types of programs and activities can and cannot be charged to GAD

1. Orientation on Gender and
Development (GAD) Basic
Guidelines and Mandates for the
Education Sector
Prepared by
Marita Castillo Pimentel,
National GAD Resource Pool
Philippine Commission on Women

2. Framework and Flow
GAD
MANDATES
Gender in
education
GENDER
SENSITIVITY
Gender and
Development
NATIONAL AND INTL
PERSONAL
SECTORAL
GUIDELINES AND
ISSUEANCES

3. Learning goals
•Understand national and international
mandates on Gender and
Development (GAD)
•Recognize the significance of GAD to
the goals of Philippine education

4. Partnership

5. Rationale for GAD
Compliance
Commitment
Obligation
• At least 5%
GAD Budget,
• COA AOM
• International :
• CEDAW,
• MDGs,
• National :
• PH Constitution
• Magna Carta of Women
• Philippine Development Plan
• PPGD
• Gender equality
• quality, equitable, culture-based,
and complete basic education
• Inclusive Growth,
• Good Governance
• National Development
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6. What is GAD
Theoretically
• An approach to or
paradigm of development
focusing on
• social, economic,
political and cultural
forces
• how differently women
and men participate in,
benefit from, and
control resources and
activities.
PH Operational
• The PH GAD program is
being implemented
through the GAD Plan
and Budget of all
government agencies
• GAD Budget of at least
5%

7. What emerged
•Schools in most cases reinforce the
existing gender ideology, stereotypes,
norms and expectations everywhere
•schools have the potential of playing a
transformative role in changing the
prevalent notions and unequal
relations, it does not necessarily happen
on its own, and requires specific and
targeted interventions in most cases.
Gender Equality in Education: the Role of Schools (2007)

8. Gender issues in PH education
Strategic gender issues to be addressed
1. Boys are underperforming in key education indicators
compared to girls
2. Indigenous people (IP) also fall behind in enrolment data
and experience discrimination
3. Higher education degrees manifest marked gender-
segregation
4. Gender biases and stereotypes remain, and are still
embedded in the curricula, instructional methods,
materials and learning media
5. Women and girls continue to be vulnerable to sexual
harassment and violence inside schools because of the lack
of safe and gender responsive teaching-learning
environment

9. GAD and DEPED
MANDATE

10. PCW MC 2011-01 PCW-NEDA-DBM
JMC 2012-01
COA CIRCULAR 2014
DEPED ORDER 27, 2013

12. HEAD OF AGENCY (Chair)
and
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
GFPS Technical
Working Group
Regional/ Bureaus/
Attached agencies
GAD Focal Point System
GFPS
Secretariat
Division/ Schools
GAD Coordinator
Mechanism:
GFPS

13. GPB
GAD
BUDGET
FRAMEWORK
AGENCY
PLANS
• PHILIPPINE
DEVELOPMENT
PLAN
• MFO/OO
• OPIF
• PIB

14. Essentials in GAD Plan and
Budget
1. Creation and/or Strengthening of the GAD
Focal Point System
2. Capability Building on Gender and
Development
3. Conduct of Gender Audit
4. Institutionalizing GAD Database/Sex-
disaggregated Data

15. GAD PLANNING AND
BUDGETING
PLANNING
• GAD in the Annual
Work and Financial
Plan, Procurement
Plan, School
Improvement Plan,
Regional Education
Development Plan
BUDGET
• AT LEAST 5% OF GAA
• Within annual budget
cycle

16. Columns 1-6 PLAN
Columns 7-8 BUDGET
Columns 4 and 6
Must be in aligned with your
WORKPLANS
Columns 7-8 must be
reflected in your
ANNUAL
PROCUREMENT PLAN
Parts of the GAD PLAN AND
BUDGET (GPB) TEMPLATE
Columns 1,2,3 and 5
Comprise the GAD agenda

17. What are the essential CONTENT of
the GPB
CLIENT FOCUSED
ORGANIZATION FOCUSED
GAD MANDATES
1. CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAM
2. GFPS ACTIVITIES
3. SEX DISAGGREGATED DATA AND
GAD INFORMATION
MANAGEMENT
4. GENDER MAINSTREAMING

18. • Those approved PPAs included in the PCW-endorsed and DBM
approved GAD Plan
• Capacity Development on GAD
• Activities related to the establishment of enabling mechanisms for
GAD, e.g. GAD Focal Point System, VAW/Women’s Desks
• Salary of agency personnel assigned to plan, implement and monitor
GAD PPAs on a full time basis, following rules and regulations in
hiring and creating positions. This provision does not apply to those
who were given extra assignment on GAD and are already regular
employees. Overtime work rendered in doing GAD PPAs may be
compensated through compensatory time off, following government
rules and regulations
What Can Be Charged to GAD
Budget?

19. What Can Be Charged to GAD
Budget?
• PPAs that address women’s practical and strategic needs, provided
these have been previously approved by the Central Office and the
PCW and are reflected in the GAD plan and budget
• Agency programs to address women’s practical and strategic
needs (e.g. daycare center, breastfeeding rooms, crisis or
counseling rooms for abused women, halfway houses for
trafficked women and children, gender-responsive family
planning program among others);
• Consultations conducted by agencies to gather inputs for
and/or to disseminate the GAD plan and budget;
• Payment of professional fees, honoraria and other services for
gender experts or gender specialists engaged by agencies for
GAD-related trainings and activities; and
• IEC activities (development, printing and dissemination) that
support the GAD PAPs and objectives of the agency.

20. What Can Be Charged to GAD
Budget?
• Consultation workshops to gather inputs for GAD plan and
other GAD mechanisms and processes
• Honoraria and professional fees of external GAD experts for
programs
• Development, printing and dissemination of information and
education campaign materials
• Women’s Month activities which are clearly aligned to the
yearly theme determined by PCW and GAD Board.

21. • PPAs not in the GAD Plan and not endorsed by PCW and approved by DBM
• Personal services and honoraria of GAD Focal Point and other employees
assigned to do GAD work
• Car-pooling, gas masks for traffic/ environment enforcers, among others;
• The following expenses may NOT be charged to the GAD budget UNLESS
they are justified as clearly addressing a specific gender issue:
• 6.1 Physical, mental and health fitness including purchase of equipment
and information dissemination materials;
• 6.2 Social, rest and recreation activities;
• 6.3 Religious activities and implementation of cultural projects; and
• 6.4 Construction expenses
• Purchase of supplies, materials, equipment and vehicles for the general
use of the agency.
What Cannot be Charged to GAD?

22. Gender Mainstreaming
GFPS
POLICIES
PEOPLE
ENABLING
MECHANISM
PROGRAMS,
PROJECTS,
ACTIVITIES
• GAD in student policies admission,
retention, completion
• GAD in human resource policies
• Teachers
• Staff
• Administrators
• GAD in representations and
participation
• GAD in the different stakeholders
• Parents
• LGUs
• Sponsors
• Etc.
• GAD Focal Point System
• GAD Capacity Development
and Capability Building
• GAD in Deped MFO- Basic Educ
Policies
• GAD in KRAs and PI
• GAD in the classroom

23. Vision-Mission

24. KRA,SO and OO

25. PI and Strategies

26. CONSERVATIVE/
FORMAL EQUALITY
PROGRESSIVE/
SUBSTANTIVE EQUALITY

27. Mirror Me
•Everyone is a reflection of
values
•Anyone can be catalyst of
actions
•All are bearers of gendered
messsages

28. Truth will set you free,
but first it will pissed you off.
Gloria Steinem