DESIGNATING THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN OF THE PHILIPPINES (NCWP) AS ONE OF THE LEAD MONITORING ARM OF NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS (NGOs) FOR THE EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION O…

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WHEREAS, Section 23, Article II of the Constitution provides that the State
shall encourage non-governmental, community-based or sectoral organizations
that promote the welfare of the nation;

WHEREAS, the government is committed to women’s advancement and to gender
equality in all aspects and at all levels, as enshrined in the Philippine Plan
for Gender-Responsive Development (PPGD) and in conjunction with the Global
Platform for Action of the Beijing UN Conference on Women;

WHEREAS, the executive branch, through the National Commission on the Role
of Filipino Women (NCRFW), spearheaded the formulation of the national agenda
for the protection of women’s rights, improvement of their social and economic
conditions, promotion of their participation in political decision making and
the coordination and monitoring of the implementation of the government’s
policy on gender and development that are primarily undertaken by the Focal
Points;

WHEREAS, to realize these commitments, the NCRFW and the Women Focal Points
in the different governmental departments and bureaus have been mandated to
implement the policy of mainstreaming gender and development agenda through
various policy actions and executive programs;

WHEREAS, the government recognizes the vital roles that women
non-governmental organizations (NGOs) play in achieving complementation of
commitments for higher impact to women nationwide and across sectors and
affirms its partnership with NGOs in ensuring that the national agenda for
women’s advancement is implemented and accomplished;

WHEREAS, the National Council of Women of the Philippines (NCWP), now in its
50th year in operation as an umbrella women’s organization of 151 national
networks and 3,081 councils, continues to play its role as a constant and
dynamic NGO partner of the government in the forefront of national development
programs for women’s empowerment;

WHEREAS, the NCWP, since its founding by Francisca Tirona-Benitez, has been
implementing gender-focused policy action agenda and programs/projects in its
crusade to raise the status of Filipino women, protect their rights and welfare
and enhance their roles and capacities as vital change agents in
nation-building and development;

WHEREAS, the NCWP, with the continuing professional and technical assistance
of the Philippine Women’s University – Development Institute for Women in
Asia-Pacific (PWU-DIWA), is further committed to promote leadership education
of women for nation-building and foster increased awareness and participation
among women in achieving the goals of the Philippine Centennial Celebration;

WHEREAS, the NCWP has recently crafted a blueprint of action agenda on 31
issue-based areas of concern in order to complement the effective
implementation of the Global Platform for Action on Women and the Philippine
Plan for a Gender-Responsive Development among the NGOs at the national and
local levels, in close collaboration with the NCRFW and the Focal Points in
government, as well as other major non-governmental women’s networks and the
private sector;

WHEREAS, a corresponding non-governmental mechanism and system-wide
structures are necessary to coordinate, mobilize, and monitor the wide
participation among women organizations, educational institutions and the
private sector in implementing gender education and development.

NOW, THEREFORE, I FIDEL
V. RAMOS, President of the Republic of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order:

SECTION 1. The affirmation of partnership among the NCRFW/Women’s Focal Points
and other women’s networks with the National Council of Women of the
Philippines (NCWP) as one of the lead implementing and monitoring arm of NGOs
for non-governmental gender and development processes and initiative
nationwide, is hereby approved.

SEC. 2. The NCWP shall be one of the lead NGO in mobilizing wider
participation among interested women’s networks and organizations,
consolidating and promoting the issues of women in the country, working in
partnership with the government in the implementation of the Beijing Platform
for Action and the Philippine Plan for Gender-Responsive Development
nationwide, and subsequently in monitoring their effective implementation at
all levels and across sectors. The NCWP shall be assisted by the PWU-DIWA as
secretariat and technical arm in providing professional services, training and
continuing education for women and work in partnership with concerned women’s
networks and organizations, such as the Congressional Spouses Foundation,
Incorporated and the Philippine Centennial Commission-Women Sector.

SEC. 3. In line with the framework and objectives set for achieving the
foregoing development agenda, there shall be a monitoring system established
using gender-sensitive indicators and guidelines to be defined in consultation
with NCRFW and other interested and concerned women’s networks and
organizations.

SEC. 4. This Executive Order shall take effect immediately.

DONE, in the City of Manila, this 7th day of May in the year of Our
Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety Six.

(Sgd.) FIDEL
V. RAMOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) RUBEN D. TORRES
Executive Secretary

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