NCRFW Institutional Strengthening Project (NCRFW ISP) Phase II
Project Description:
The NCRFW ISP II is the second phase of partnership between CIDA and NCRFW. The second phase of the project was re-oriented to focus on achieving an “institutionalized enabling environment in NCRFW and selected partners for gender responsive policy, planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring and evaluation”. Simply put, this means transforming government and its major processes to systematically respond to women’s needs and gender concerns. In the long-term, government programs should reach and benefit women equally with men and improve their lives. The strategy is called gender mainstreaming.
The project supports NCRFW itself and its work with a wide range of partners. These include agencies and broad responsibilities throughout government (four oversight agencies, three statistical agencies and the legislature) and selected other agencies (four line agencies, seven sub-national government units and training partners).
The project was scheduled to conclude by June 2001. Given that it took longer than anticipated to develop effective working relationships and good project proposals with partners, NCRFW has been granted two extensions, the first one up to March 2002 and a second extension up to March 2004
Project Goal:
To support the full participation and integration of women in all aspects of Philippine national development by enhancing the planning and implementation capacity of NCRFW and all other key units tasked to carry out gender mainstreaming in government.
Project Purpose:
To build leadership, systems, capacity and skills in NCRFW and its partners to lead and guide the operationalization of existing government policy on gender equality;
To mainstream gender in the structures, functions, processes and systems of key government institutions, priority line agencies, selected local government units and resource networks.