EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 12

AN ORDER ESTABLISHING THE GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT FOCAL POINT

FOR THE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT OF BUSTOS, BULACAN,

PRESCRIBING RULES THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the Beijing Platform for Action, the Republic Act 7192 (Women in Development and Nation-building Act), and the Millennium Development Goals, the Philippines has committed to pursue women's empowerment and gender equality in the country;

WHEREAS, in accordance with Executive Order (EO) No. 273

(Approving and Adopting the Philippine Plan for Gender-Responsive Development, 1995-2025), agencies are mandated to institutionalize Gender and Development (GAD) in government by incorporating the GAD concerns in their planning, programming and budgeting processes. EO No. 273 also mandates agencies to incorporate and reflect GAD concerns in their agency performance commitment contracts, annual budget proposals and work and financial plans;

WHEREAS, as declared by the United Nations, it shall be the policy of

this Municipal Government to treat women’s rights as human rights, and therefore will work towards the full protection and guarantee of the following:

1. Women have the right to prevention of and protection from all forms

of violence and coercion against their person, their freedom, their sexuality and their individuality;

2. Women have the right to freely and fully participate individually or collectively – in the political process prevalent in their communities and nations;

3. Women have the right to the knowledge and means necessary for the full exercise of their reproductive rights according to their beliefs and preferences;

4. Women have the right to the means of ensuring their economic welfare and security;

5. Women have the right to choose their spouses in accordance with their values and preferences, and obtain adequate support for the rearing and caring of their children;

6. Women have the right to an adequate, relevant and gender fair education throughout their lives, from childhood to adulthood;

7. Women have the right to adequate nutrition and proper health care.

8. Women have the right to humane living conditions;

9. Women have the right to nurture their personhood, collec tively and individually, to secure an image of themselves as whole and valuable human beings to build relationships based on respect, trust and mutuality; and

10. Women have the right to equality before the law in principle as well as in practice.

WHEREAS, in response to these, the Municipal Government of Bustos,

Bulacan aims to institutionalize gender-responsive programs to protect and promote women’s rights and uplift their welfare through the institutionalization of a Gender and Development (GAD) Focal Poi nt pursuant to DBM-NEDA-NCRFW Joint Circular No. 2004-01;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ARNEL F. MENDOZA, Municipal Mayor of the Municipality of Bustos, Province of Bulacan, by virtue of the powers vested upon me by law, do hereby order:

SECTION 1. INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF THE GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT

(GAD) FOCAL POINT. – There is hereby established a Gender and Development (GAD) Focal Point for the years 2010 to 2013, which shall be composed of the following:

Chairperson Mayor Arnel F. Mendoza Vice Chairperson The Honorable Aileen S. Principio, Chairperson, Sangguniang Bayan Committee on Women and Family Members All Department Heads PO1 Analiza Tabangcura WCPC Ms. Elvira Dionisio

Catholic Women’s League Mr. Edgardo Mendoza

PWDs Organization SECTION 2. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE GENDER AND

DEVELOPMENT (GAD) FOCAL POINT. – The GAD Focal Point shall: 1. Serve as catalyst for gender-responsive planning and programming; 2. Oversee and coordinate the planning and implementation of GAD

Programs; 3. Facilitate GAD-related activities and establish sex-disaggregated

data; 4. Serve a key informant on gender issues; and 5. Prepare the Annual GAD Plan and Budget Accomplishment Report.

SECTION 3. GAD PLAN AND BUDGETING. – (A) In response to Republic Act

No. 7192, otherwise known as the ―Women in Development and Nation-Building Act,‖ the Municipal Government, through the GAD Focal Point , shall prepare the GAD Plan following the procedures set forth under DBM-NEDA-NCRFW Joint Circular No. 2004-01 and such other rules and regulations that may be promulgated from time to time.

(B) To operationalize the Annual GAD Plan, the GAD Focal Point, with the assistance and advice of the Local Finance Committee, shall prepare the budget therefor which shall emanate from not more than five percent (5%) of the total annual appropriations.

SECTION 4. ANNUAL GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT ACCOMPLISHMENT

REPORT. – On December of every year, the GAD Focal Point — through the Municipal Social Welfare and Development Officer, the WCPC of the Bustos Police, and the Municipal Accountant — shall submit to the Office of the Municipal Mayor the Annual Gender and Development (GAD) Accomplishment Report.

SECTION 5. PROHIBITIONS ON GAD BUDGETING. – Pursuant to the

guidelines prescribed by the Department of the Interior and Local Government, it is hereby reiterated that the GAD Budget shall NOT be appropriated for the following:

1. Social and recreation activities; 2. Physical health and mental fitness programs; 3. Organization of employees’ groups and their projects; 4. Religious and cultural activities; 5. Meetings, workshops or consultations beyond the scope of women -

related concerns; 6. Skills training, entrepreneurial or livelihood projects for women

employees; 7. Construction for infrastructural projects that do not relate to ge nder

development issues; and 8. Payment of power and energy services and the like.

SECTION 6. EFFECTIVITY. – This Executive Order shall take effect upon

approval.

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Approved this 8 th day in September, in the year of our Lord two thousand and ten at Bustos, Bulacan.

ARNEL F. MENDOZA Municipal Mayor

By the Municipal Mayor: ARNOLD C. BELTRAN

Secretary