RGADC preps for 2021 Search for Caraga’s Most Gender-Responsive Gov’t Agencies PCW’s GADtimpala,
to ensure that it will strategically upfront the gender-responsiveness of agencies’ programs or projects that contribute to gender equality and women’s empowerment, especially those that have made impacts on the lives of women,” said Bacang.
By Jennifer P. Gaitano
The Regional Development Council - Gender and Development Committee (RDC-RGADC) gears up preparation for the 2021 Search for Caraga’s Most Gender-Responsive Government Agencies, and now ready to facilitate interested entities for the requirements. RGADC chair and Commission on Human Rights (CHR) Caraga regional director Atty. Jerefe TubigonBacang, recalled that in the national level, the Philippine Commission on Women (PCW) has launched in 2013 the Gender and Development
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Transformation and Institutionalization through Mainstreaming of Programs, Agenda, Linkages and Advocacies (GADtimpala) as one integral component of its awards system in the recognition of deserving national government agencies for their outstanding achievement and performance in mainstreaming gender in the bureaucracy, upholding the rights of women and effective implementation of genderresponsive programs. “This Search shall also be patterned with modifications to the
Building on the success of the first phase of this threefold incentives and awards system, a three-year (20212023) and partnership agreement with the Philippine Commission on Women (PCW) operated by an annual work and financial plan, has been initiated and approved. These are positive actions of the RDC-RGADC to ensure the realization of its local initiatives. As to the scope, Bacang said that the 2021 Search for Caraga’s GenderResponsive Government Agencies shall cover national government agencies (NGAs), attached agencies and bureaus including government-owned and controlled corporations (GOCCs) and state Caraga INFOCUS
