Philippine Gender-Responsive Development Plan

The Executive Order is grounded on Section 14, Article II of the 1987 Constitution, recognizing the role of women in nation-building and requiring the State to ensure the fundamental equality before the law of women and men.
The Executive Order recognizes Executive Order No. 348 (1989) as approving and adopting the Philippine Development Plan for Women (PDPW) for 1989-1992.
The Executive Order cites Republic Act No. 7192 (Women in Development and Nation-Building Act), enacted on February 12, 1992, as calling for a successor plan to mainstream gender concerns in development after the PDPW time frame.
The Executive Order references Republic Act No. 7845 as the basis for appropriations set aside for the purpose of implementing the Plan.

The Executive Order adopts the Plan as the national vehicle for implementing in the Philippines the action commitments from the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China.
The Executive Order establishes the Plan as the direction for mainstreaming gender concerns in development following the expiration of the PDPW.
The Executive Order sets a long-term goal of fully integrating GAD concerns into the whole development process.

The Executive Order directs all government agencies, departments, bureaus, offices, and instrumentalities, including government-owned and-controlled corporations, at national, sub-national, and local levels to implement the Plan.
The Executive Order requires government agencies to institutionalize Gender and Development (GAD) efforts in government through incorporation of GAD concerns in their planning, programming, and budgeting processes.
The Executive Order directs the NCRFW to monitor implementation in coordination with NEDA and to periodically assess and update the Plan.
The Executive Order urges non-governmental organizations and private entities to assist and support implementation, monitoring, assessment, and updating of the Plan.

Government agencies must ensure the full implementation of the policies/strategies and programs/projects outlined in the Plan (Section 1.1).
Government agencies must incorporate GAD concerns as spelled out in the Plan into planning, programming, and budgeting, including:
- Section 1.2(a): incorporation of GAD concerns in the formulation, assessment and updating of their annual agency plans.
- Section 1.2(b): incorporation of GAD concerns in the formulation, assessment and updating of their inputs to medium/long-term development plans.
- Section 1.2(c): incorporation of GAD concerns in the preparation of inputs to sectoral performance assessment reports, public investment plans, and other similar documents.
Government agencies must incorporate and reflect GAD concerns in:
- Section 1.2(a): agency performance commitments contracts indicating key results areas for GAD, and in their annual performance report to the President.
- Section 1.2(b): annual agency budget proposals and work and financial plans.
The mainstreaming of GAD across government agencies is the responsibility of the heads of concerned agencies, with assistance of their Women in Development (WID)/GAD Focal Points, if any, to ensure institutionalization (Section 4).

The NCRFW, in coordination with NEDA, must monitor the implementation of the Plan by various government agencies (Section 2.1).
The NCRFW, in coordination with NEDA, must conduct periodic assessment and updating of the Plan every six years or upon every change in national leadership (Section 2.2).
The NCRFW may call upon assistance of any government agency or instrumentality, including government-owned and-controlled corporations and existing inter-agency structures, as necessary (Section 2).
The Executive Order authorizes the NCRFW, in consultation with the President and concerned government agencies, to issue orders and circulars of guidelines as necessary for implementation, coordination, monitoring, assessment, and updating of the Plan, and for implementing the Executive Order’s provisions (Section 3).
The NCRFW may constitute appropriate inter-agency committees for these purposes (Section 3).

The initial amount necessary for implementing the Plan must be charged against the appropriations of government agencies authorized to be set aside for the purpose under Republic Act No. 7845 (Section 5).
The initial implementation funding may include sources from bilateral/multilateral agencies/organizations or from official development assistance (ODA) pursuant to Republic Act No. 7192 (Section 5).
For succeeding years, budgetary requirements must be incorporated in the General Appropriations Bills submitted to Congress (Section 5).

Government agencies must institutionalize GAD through integration into annual planning and assessment processes and into performance and budget instruments (Section 1.2).
GAD mainstreaming is carried out through agencies’ institutional structures and designated focal points where available (Section 4).
The NCRFW leads the orchestration of implementation, monitoring, and updating through guidelines, consultations, and inter-agency committees (Sections 2 and 3).