QuestionsQuestions (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 273)
EO No. 273 approves and adopts the “Philippine Plan for Gender-Responsive Development, 1995 to 2025,” intended to mainstream gender concerns in development and to implement national commitments arising from the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.
Section 14, Article II of the Philippine Constitution, which recognizes the role of women in nation-building and ensures the fundamental equality before the law of women and men.
Republic Act No. 7192. It calls for a successor plan after the expiration of the Philippine Development Plan for Women (PDPW) 1989–1992, to provide direction for mainstreaming gender concerns in development.
Executive Order No. 348 (series of 1989), approving and adopting the Philippine Development Plan for Women (PDPW) for 1989–1992.
To take appropriate steps to ensure the full implementation of the policies/strategies and programs/projects outlined in the Plan.
Gender and Development (GAD) efforts by incorporating GAD concerns, as spelled out in the Plan, into their planning, programming, and budgeting processes.
In the formulation, assessment, and updating of their annual agency plans.
In the formulation, assessment, and updating of their inputs to the medium/long-term development plans.
In the preparation of their inputs to sectoral performance assessment reports, public investment plans, and other similar documents.
Agencies must include key results areas for GAD in agency performance commitments contracts and reflect GAD concerns in their annual agency performance report to the President.
Agencies must incorporate and reflect GAD concerns in their annual agency budget proposals and work and financial plans.
The National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women (NCRFW), coordinating with the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), monitors implementation by various government agencies.
Every six years, or upon every change in national leadership.
Authorized, in consultation with the President and concerned government agencies, to issue orders and circulars of guidelines necessary for implementation, coordination, monitoring, assessment, and updating of the Plan, and may constitute inter-agency committees.
The heads of concerned agencies and their respective offices, with assistance of their Women in Development (WID)/GAD Focal Points, if any.
The initial amount necessary is charged against appropriations of government agencies authorized under Republic Act No. 7845, including sources from bilateral/multilateral agencies/organizations or official development assistance (ODA) pursuant to Republic Act No. 7192.
Budgetary requirements for succeeding years must be incorporated in the General Appropriations Bills submitted to Congress.
It takes effect immediately.
It operationalizes the mainstreaming of gender concerns by making GAD integration a requirement across the agency lifecycle—plan formulation, medium/long-term inputs, performance assessment/reporting, and budgeting—thus institutionalizing GAD as part of government governance.