18.7 An examination of the GAD database against the minimum data requirements
outlined in Annex B of the JMC, along with the Programs, Projects and
Activities (PPAs) in the GAD Plan and Budget (GPB) for CY 2024 revealed
that the database lacks essential gender statistics and GAD-related information.
The Provincial Government allocated ₱175,517,764.00 for various sectoral
programs under the GPB, covering areas such as education, health, gender-
based violence and protection, media and film, and security in times of disasters,
calamities, and crises. However, the submitted database did not contain
complete data or statistics to highlight gender gaps and differences between
women and men.
18.8 For instance, under the education social subsector, the Provincial Government’s
PPAs include conducting hands-on skills training for out-of-school youth and
marginalized women, as well as providing educational assistance to 1,000
underprivileged but deserving students. Despite these initiatives, the GAD
database did not include the following essential sex-disaggregated data
requirements for gender analysis, which are crucial for justifying the
mainstreaming of these programs under the GAD Fund:
1. Simple literacy rate (10 years old and over)
2. Functional literacy rate (for individuals aged 10-64)
3. Ratio of girls to boys in primary, secondary, and tertiary education
4. Availability of functional literacy training programs for women
5. Distribution of the population aged 6 and over by highest educational
attainment (%):
a. No education
b. Some elementary
c. Completed elementary
d. Some high school
e. Completed high school
f. College or other higher education
6. Percentage of population age 6-24 by education level currently attended,
disaggregated by age group and by sex:
a. Not currently attending
b. Kinder/Preparatory/Nursery
c. Elementary
d. High school
e. Post-secondary
f. College
g. Postgraduate
7. Elementary and high school completion rates
8. Percentage of college graduates by program cluster
9. Number of Technical-Vocational Education and Training (TVET) graduates
18.9 As a development approach, GAD seeks to equalize the status, conditions, and
relationships between women and men by influencing the processes and
outcomes of policymaking, planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring,
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