Philippine Plan for Gender-Responsive Development (PPGD) 1995-2025.
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This Philippine Plan for Gender-Responsive Development (PPGD) 1995-2025 is a nationwide multi-sectoral policy document. In the Plan, sectors on economic and industrial development include: Agriculture and Fisheries; Agrarian Reform; Environment and Natural Resources; and Industry, Trade and Tourism. The following primary objectives are highlighted in the sectoral plans: to promote and enhance the participation of women, both as agents and beneficiaries, in economic and industrial development; and to mainstream gender concerns in the development and management of the sub-sectors in agriculture, environment and natural resources, and industry, trade and tourism.
Rural women, who comprise 51 percent of all women in the country, deserve particular attention. While they perform various productive agricultural activities, they remain invisible farmers. They tend to be displaced by mechanization and have very limited access to credit, agricultural services, training and technology. The section of agricultural and fisheries of the Plan is mainly concerned with the provision of equal opportunities for both women and men to contribute to, and benefit from agricultural and fisheries development. It primarily aims to provide an environment that shall fully mainstream gender concerns in agricultural and fisheries development. Main policies and strategies to be pursued are: Sensitize the rural population to gender issues; Mainstream gender concerns In the sector's development policies and programs; Consider women's particular needs in implementing projects; Develop rural women's capabilities; Expand Income opportunities for women; Provide infrastructural support; Forge stronger GO-NGO linkages; etc. Consistent with the CARP goals of increasing farm production, improving household income and promoting sustainable agro-industrial development in the countryside, the Philippine Plan for Gender-Responsive Development (PPGD) agrarian reform sector's primary objective is to ensure the full participation of women and men agrarian reform beneficiaries in agrarian reform implementation and development and for them to have equal access and control of CARP benefits and resources.
The Plan recognize the issue of poor nutritional levels among women, pregnant and lactating women in particular. For the period 1995-2025, the Plan proposed health sector's objectives proposed in the Plan shall include: To enhance the fo11ification of foods with Vitamin A, iron and iodine; To promote breastfeeding as a means to enhance women's and children's health.
The Plan supports to make agriculture and fisheries more productive and sustainable. One of the activities proposed is to encourage women to form organizations, including cooperatives, where they could develop organizing, management and various social skills without feeling threatened or inhibited by men's presence, and where they could push for common concerns like getting credit for entrepneurial/ agricultural projects, assistance for projects on environmental protection. The Plan also seeks to promote environment and natural resource (ENR) management with the such objectives as: (a) To institutionalize the mainstreaming of gender concerns in the whole cycle of ENR development planning. (b) To promote and enhance the participation of women, both as agents and beneficiaries, in the development and management of natural resources and in the maintenance of a quality environment. (c) To ensure women's enjoyment of their equitable share of benefits from sustainable resource use and quality environment. (d) To improve the living conditions of women and their families in upland/ forest/mining areas. {e) To raise the level of awareness and skills of ENR development agents and beneficiaries on WID/GAD and ENR concerns.
The Plan promotes to reduce rural poverty. For the Plan period 1995-2025, the sector of social welfare and community development shall have the following objectives: (a) To improve the general health and nutritional status of women and girls throughout their life cycle, particularly adolescents. pregnant and lactating women and menopausal and elderly women. (b) To provide universal access to quality and efficient health care services for women, especially the marginalized groups and to improve the range and quality of these services. (c) To promote family planning as a means to improve women's health, promote safe motherhood and improve child survival. (d) To increase men's participation and share of responsibility in limiting family size/spacing births. (e) To enable the early detection of women's cancer through breast selfexamination and pap smear. (t) To prevent unwanted pregnancies and screen, detect and manage highrisk pregnancies. The Plan also promotes equal access of women to training and employment opportunities.
The Plan seeks to enable more inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems. It proposes the following activities: Target female farmers as participants of seminars/training activities where new technologies are introduced; ; establishment of women-friendly credit schemes such as the Grameen Bank project; organizing women into producers and traders unions to improve their production and marketing capabilities, and establishment of farmersfolk cooperatives to facilitate credit and the acquisition of information and farming/fishing inputs, as well as marketing of products; Encourage women's membership in farmers organizations and enable them to hold responsible/key positions; etc.
Rural women, who comprise 51 percent of all women in the country, deserve particular attention. While they perform various productive agricultural activities, they remain invisible farmers. They tend to be displaced by mechanization and have very limited access to credit, agricultural services, training and technology. The section of agricultural and fisheries of the Plan is mainly concerned with the provision of equal opportunities for both women and men to contribute to, and benefit from agricultural and fisheries development. It primarily aims to provide an environment that shall fully mainstream gender concerns in agricultural and fisheries development. Main policies and strategies to be pursued are: Sensitize the rural population to gender issues; Mainstream gender concerns In the sector's development policies and programs; Consider women's particular needs in implementing projects; Develop rural women's capabilities; Expand Income opportunities for women; Provide infrastructural support; Forge stronger GO-NGO linkages; etc. Consistent with the CARP goals of increasing farm production, improving household income and promoting sustainable agro-industrial development in the countryside, the Philippine Plan for Gender-Responsive Development (PPGD) agrarian reform sector's primary objective is to ensure the full participation of women and men agrarian reform beneficiaries in agrarian reform implementation and development and for them to have equal access and control of CARP benefits and resources.
The Plan recognize the issue of poor nutritional levels among women, pregnant and lactating women in particular. For the period 1995-2025, the Plan proposed health sector's objectives proposed in the Plan shall include: To enhance the fo11ification of foods with Vitamin A, iron and iodine; To promote breastfeeding as a means to enhance women's and children's health.
The Plan supports to make agriculture and fisheries more productive and sustainable. One of the activities proposed is to encourage women to form organizations, including cooperatives, where they could develop organizing, management and various social skills without feeling threatened or inhibited by men's presence, and where they could push for common concerns like getting credit for entrepneurial/ agricultural projects, assistance for projects on environmental protection. The Plan also seeks to promote environment and natural resource (ENR) management with the such objectives as: (a) To institutionalize the mainstreaming of gender concerns in the whole cycle of ENR development planning. (b) To promote and enhance the participation of women, both as agents and beneficiaries, in the development and management of natural resources and in the maintenance of a quality environment. (c) To ensure women's enjoyment of their equitable share of benefits from sustainable resource use and quality environment. (d) To improve the living conditions of women and their families in upland/ forest/mining areas. {e) To raise the level of awareness and skills of ENR development agents and beneficiaries on WID/GAD and ENR concerns.
The Plan promotes to reduce rural poverty. For the Plan period 1995-2025, the sector of social welfare and community development shall have the following objectives: (a) To improve the general health and nutritional status of women and girls throughout their life cycle, particularly adolescents. pregnant and lactating women and menopausal and elderly women. (b) To provide universal access to quality and efficient health care services for women, especially the marginalized groups and to improve the range and quality of these services. (c) To promote family planning as a means to improve women's health, promote safe motherhood and improve child survival. (d) To increase men's participation and share of responsibility in limiting family size/spacing births. (e) To enable the early detection of women's cancer through breast selfexamination and pap smear. (t) To prevent unwanted pregnancies and screen, detect and manage highrisk pregnancies. The Plan also promotes equal access of women to training and employment opportunities.
The Plan seeks to enable more inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems. It proposes the following activities: Target female farmers as participants of seminars/training activities where new technologies are introduced; ; establishment of women-friendly credit schemes such as the Grameen Bank project; organizing women into producers and traders unions to improve their production and marketing capabilities, and establishment of farmersfolk cooperatives to facilitate credit and the acquisition of information and farming/fishing inputs, as well as marketing of products; Encourage women's membership in farmers organizations and enable them to hold responsible/key positions; etc.
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