RDC XI HOLDS 1ST REGIONAL GAD PLAN AND BUDGET FORMULATION WORKSHOP
The Regional Development Council XI – Regional Gender and Development Coordinating Committee (RGADCC) XI breaks ground as it conducts the first ever regional workshop for the formulation of Gender and Development (GAD) Plan and Budget on 08 April 2010 at the NEDA-RDC XI Center, Bangkal, Davao City.
The undertaking is pursuant to RA 7192 or the Women in Development and Nation Building Act and the recent RA 9710 or the Magna Carta of Women, both of which affirm the Philippines’ commitment to the Millennium Development Goal of Promoting Gender Equality and Empowering Women. It is also in consonance with the DBM-NEDA-NCRFW Joint Memorandum Circular 2004-1 and the General Appropriations Act, which requires all departments, agencies, state universities and colleges, and other offices of the national government, and government-owned and -controlled corporations to prepare an annual GAD Plan and Budget, and to allocate 5% of their proposed budget for GAD. A total of 38 government entities represented by 80 participants prepared their initial GAD Plan and Budget for 2011 by the end of the workshop.
RDC XI Vice-Chair and NEDA XI Regional Director Maria Lourdes D. Lim informed that the activity is the first of the three stages espoused under the Operational Framework for Mainstreaming GAD in Regional Budgeting. Director Lim added that the Regional GAD Operational Framework is the very first that has been developed in the country to provide a step-by-step approach in mainstreaming GAD in regional planning, budgeting, and monitoring and evaluation.
Philippine Commission on Women Executive Director Emmeline Versoza commended the RDC XI for being the first to conduct a regional workshop for GAD Plan and Budget formulation, and the first to develop an operational framework for mainstreaming GAD at the regional level. She also congratulated the RGADCC XI, headed by Ms. Rosena D. Sanchez, for making concrete developments in advocating GAD since the NCRFW’s early undertakings in Davao Region in the 90s.
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