Davao City s GAD Awards

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1 Davao City s GAD Awards 2004 Galing Pook Awardee as: Top Ten Outstanding Program Special Citation as Most Gender-Responsive LGU 2005 NCRFW 30th Pearl Anniversary Awardee on LGUs with Best Practices on GAD 2009 Most VAW Responsive LGU

2 Evolution of GAD Mainstreaming in Davao City 2003 present Sustaining Gains & Benchmarking Landmark Legislation & Institutionalization 1980s Nicaragua of Asia Women s Force Creation of Women Against Rape (WAR) Formation of AID (Nairobi) Critical collaboration of NGO & GO women 1986 Empowering Women Luz Ilagan & Cora Malanyaon - 1st women councilors of 9th SP Women s Rights as Human Rights grassroots women organizing para-legal training WID/WAD perspective 1990s The Women s Agenda Formulation of women s legislative and electoral agenda Sectoral Representative Study group on the Women Code Research and Data Gathering More women elected in the City Council Drafting of the Women Code Institutionalization of WOMENET The passage of the WDC into law Constitution of Gender Ad Hoc Committee (GAC) Organization of Barangay Council for Women Annual Women Summit Creation of the Integrated Gender and Development Division Organizational strengthening of IGDD Organization of Attached Units Development of Training Modules Transferring knowledge and skills to barangays and other LGUs Initiating Pilot Projects More aggressive advocacy campaigns 100 % Compliance of GAD Planning and Budgeting Galing Pook Awards 2004 Recognition

3 Landmark Legislation First ever in the entire Philippines The local government of Davao City made a groundbreaking innovation in GAD mainstreaming with its landmark legislation -- the Women Development Code. The Code is a comprehensive instrument to mainstream gender and development (GAD) in program planning, implementation, budget allocation, monitoring and evaluation in the LGU of Davao City.

4 Davao City Women Code: A More Comprehensive Approach Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) - (United Nations) Beijing Platform of Action (1995) (Global NGO Forum) Women in Nation Building Act (RA 7192) (National) Women Development Code (1997) (Davao City) Right of women to prevention and protection from violence Women & poverty Women and economic equality Violence Against Women Economic rights Women & education Women and development Labor and Employment Reproductive rights Women & health Women and education Women s Health Rights Education rights Violence against women Women and the law Education right Nutrition and health Women and armed conflict Socio-economic benefits for women Humane living condition Women and economic equality Rural women s rights Labor and employment Women and politics Differently-abled women Public and political sphere National machinery on women Elderly women Equality before the law Women and human rights Women & children support system Nurture their personhood Women and media Political& Public sphere of women Women and the environment Cultural identity of women The girl child Special Sectoral Concerns Gender and Development

5 Highlights of the Women Development Code Mainstreaming gender-sensitivity through legislation; Adoption of gender-responsive development policies in all local government departments & agencies, including the review & revision of all existing regulations to remove gender biases; Allocation of 30 % of Official Dev t. Assistance funds & 6 % of Davao City s ADF for women & gender- sensitive development projects; Creation of the Integrated Gender and Development Office (IGDO) to be the coordinative, regulatory and monitoring body responsible in the implementation of the Code; and Creation of the Councils for Women at the District Level, from among Barangay level women organizations, to become the consultative assembly of IGDO

6 Penalties as Provided for in the Women Development Code VIOLATIONS Fine Imprison ment Cancellation of Business Permit Suspension of Business Permit Administrative Sanctions Soliciting Women s services for sexual purposes Other forms of trafficking in women Sex trade Hotels, beach resorts, sauna baths and other related establishments as conducts of sex tours Beauty contests & other fund raising initiatives Depriving women of basic services in armed conflict areas Keeping women or girl children in police / military quarters for purposes of comfort Forced marriage Failure to conduct conscious surveillance of entertainment establishments Denying Moro and Indigenous women enrollment and employment opportunities Depriving women of job training and promotion Violation of minimum wage law and benefits for women employees Failure of employers to provide facilities and support systems for women employees Failure of big companies and labor intensive establishments to provide reproductive health services to women employees regardless of civil status

7 Penalties as Provided for in the Women Development Code VIOLATIONS Fine Imprison ment Cancellation of Business Permit Suspension of Business Permit Administrative Sanctions Failure to conduct orientations on sexual harassment Violation of maternity leave benefits as incentives for breastfeeding mothers Failure of Barangay Council to conduct gender-sensitivity training for househelp and househelp employers Violation of minimum wage provision and job contract of women in the entertainment industry Police brutality in raids in entertainment establishments Denying women living below the poverty line of reproductive health services Non-compliance of socialized lending for women provision Acting as agents of inorganic fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides Failure to formulate barangay-level sanction on cases of harassment against differently-abled women Violation of agreements or settlements arrived at the Lupong Tagapamayapa Non-compliance of provision requiring all schools, offices, establishments or companies, departments and agencies to initiate gender sensitivity orientations and trainings