New Bilibid Prison: Gender and Development

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To commemorate this year’s National Women’s Month, the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) – Gender and Development spearheaded a seminar on “Gender Sensitivity with Lecture on VAWC and Magna Carta of Women”. This was participated by thirty-six (36) male and female NBP BuCor employees from different camps and offices last March 8 and 9, 2018 at the Medium Security Compound and New Conference Room respectively.
Together with its objective, the Gender Sensitivity Training program was designed to open up communications between the sexes to bring mutual understanding and respect to each other’s roles. Mr. Alvin Cloyd Dakis, a Gender Specialist from the Philippine Commission on Women (PCW), supplemented the participants with information regarding Anti-VAWC (RA 9262) and Magna Carta of Women (RA 9710).
The session facilitated discussions that highlight positive practices between men and women and expose areas that need improved understanding. Participants were given chance to share and relate their own personal role to open up the widest possible range of life options also to foster an environment of respect, dignity and understanding for both women and men.

BACKGROUND

The National Women’s Month Celebration every March is part of the worldwide observance of the International Women’s Day (IWD).

The following issuances serve as legal bases for the annual activity:

• Proclamation No. 224 s. 1988 declaring the first week of March each year as Women’s Week and March 8 as Women’s Rights and International Peace Day;

• Proclamation No. 227 s. 1988 providing for the observance of the Month of March as Women’s Role in History Month; and

• Republic Act (RA) 6949 s. 1990 declaring March 8 of every year as National Women’s Day.

2017-2022 THEME

In 2017, the PCW Board Members and Inter-Agency Technical Working Group identified the NWMC theme “We Make Change Work for Women”, which shall be used from 2017-2022. It highlights the empowerment of women as active contributors to and claimholders of development. This pursuit of development is also anchored on the commitment of “Malasakit at Pagbabago” or True Compassion and Real Change.


ELEMENTS OF THE THEME

• We stands for Women’ Empowerment – empowering women enables them to confidently and meaningfully engage with appropriate institutions to ensure that they contribute to and benefit from development and changes. Thus, women’s empowerment will make the change that we are espousing or any development effort responsive of women’s concerns.

• Make Change Work = MCW = Magna Carta of Women – making change work for women necessitates strengthening the implementation of the MCW at all levels. It means putting in place functional mechanisms as well as implementing and making known to citizens, programs and services that address strategic gender needs of women.

• Change – also means Compassionate and Harmonized Actions and Networks for Gender Equality.

• We / us or “kami / tayo” in Filipino – who is going to pave the way for an enabling environment for women to be empowered? Who is going to ensure that the MCW is implemented at all levels? Who is going to make change work for women? It all of us, in our various capacities whether as government officials and employees, members of the private sector, the academe, non-government organizations, or as private individuals can be partners for a change that is gender-responsive. It emphasizes our collective effort, collaboration and participation to ensure that women will not be left behind in the pursuit of change.

The theme emphasizes that women should be active drivers in bringing about positive changes, and that they should also reap from fruits of development efforts. This can be made possible by empowering women – enabling them to meaningfully engage with other development stakeholders, and by fully implementing the MCW.


OBJECTIVES

Consistent with Proclamation No. 227 s. 1988, the annual conduct of the National Women’s Month Celebration (NWMC) aims to give due recognition to the contributions of Filipino women in our society.

Specifically, 2018 celebration aims to:

1. inform and engage women as stakeholders of government programs and services – to promote citizen-centric governance and make “change” a conscious effort to know, understand, and provide what ALL citizens need;

2. create and facilitate platforms to discuss good practices, gaps, challenges , and commitments in pursuing gender and development (GAD) – to strengthen implementation of the Magna Carta of Women; and

3. inspire and empower women and girls to be agents of change – to contribute in promoting gender equality and the empowerment of all women

2018 National Women's Month Celebration
Theme : WE MAKE CHANGE
WORK FOR WOMEN
March 1-31, 2018

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Sa pamamagitan ng Proclamation No. 432, s. 1957, opisyal na idineklara ang ikatlong linggo ng Enero bilang National Mental Health Week. Dahil ang mental health ay isang bagay na dapat pinagtutuunan natin ng pansin, oras na para kamustahin natin ang mental health ng ating mga sarili at pati na rin ng ating mga mahal sa buhay. Pero ano nga ba talaga ang mental health at ano ang sanhi ng mga mental problems ni Juana at Juan?

Para linawin ang mga myths at misconceptions tungkol sa mental health at magbigay ng tips kung paano natin mapapangalagaan ang ating mental health, mapalad tayong makakasama ngayong hapon si DR. JOEL NATHAN BAGUIWET, Senior Resident Medical Officer III ng National Center for Mental Health.

Para sa mga katanungan hinggil sa mental health ng mga Juana at sa iba pang mga isyung may kinalaman sa mga kababaihan, tumawag lang sa 924-26- 20 at susubukan naming sagutin ang inyong mga katanungan. Dahil dito sa Tinig ng Kababaihan, mahalaga ang boses ninyo!

Today, January 7, is the 43rd founding anniversary of then National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women (NCRFW), now Philippine Commission on Women (PCW).

Established by virtue of Presidential Decree No. 633, PCW acts as an advisory body to the President and the Cabinet on policies and programs for the advancement of women.

Cheers to more years of advancing the rights of women and girls and pushing for gender equality!

Have you noticed these changes in the FY 2019 GAD Budget Call?

Visit http://pcw.gov.ph/law/preparation-and-online-submission-fy-2019-gender-and-development-gad-plans-and-budgets-and-fy-2017-gad-accomplishment-reports-and-other-matters to download your copy of PCW MC No. 2017-03 - Preparation and Online Submission of FY 2019 Gender and
Development (GAD) Plans and Budgets and FY 2017 GAD
Accomplishment Reports and Other Matters

Alam niyo ba kung ano-ano ang mga programa at serbisyo ng gobyerno para sa mga Kababaihan? Gusto niyo bang humingi ng payo tungkol sa mga karapatan at iba pang isyung may kinalaman sa ating mga Juana?

Tumawag sa 924-26-20 tuwing Huwebes mula 2:00 - 3:00 PM. Susubukan naming sagutin ang inyong mga katanungan kasama sina Ms. Janet Bayan at Atty. Butch Jamon. Dahil sa Tinig ng Kababaihan, mahalaga ang boses ninyo!

The GAD Budget submission is fast approaching.

Here's a quick reminder on expenses that CANNOT be charged against the Gender and Development (GAD) Budget of government agencies and LGUs per PCW-DILG-DBM-NEDA Joint Memorandum Circular 2013-01 and PCW-NEDA-DBM Joint Circular No. 2012-01.

Links:

JC 2012-01http://www.pcw.gov.ph/sites/default/files/documents/resources/pcw-neda-dbm-jc-2012-01.pdf

JMC 2013-01
http://www.pcw.gov.ph/law/pcw-dilg-dbm-neda-joint-memorandum-circular-2013-01

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