the provision of services, such as psychosocial support, livelihood support, education, and
comprehensivehealth services, including protection during pregnancy.
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Thenational, regional and local disaster coordinating councils shall ensure the participation
of womenin the development of a gender—responsive disaster management, including
preparedness,mitigation,risk reduction and adaptation.
In disasters, calamities and other crises, LGUs and agencies concernedin all phases of
relief, recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts shall develop and implement a
gender-responsive and rights-based work and financial plan that include:
1. Active participation of established inter-agency and multi-sectoral humanitarian
cluster mechanismsthat will help ensure a more coordinated and gender-sensitive
responsein all stages of the emergency;
2. Improved collection and use of age and sex-disaggregated data and reproductive
health indicators in rapid and comprehensive assessments for strategic gender
analysis and programming of humanitarian response;
3. Timely, adequate and culturally-appropriate provision of relief goods and services
suchas food, water, sanitary packs, psychosocial support,livelihood, education and
comprehensivehealth services including implementation of the MISP for sexual and
reproductive health at the early stageofthecrisis;
4. Proactive adoption of measures by camp managers to prevent sexual violence in
evacuation centers and relocation sites which include: (a) security and safety of
women and children as key criteria for the selection of evacuation sites, (b) separate
functional and well-lit latrines for men and womenwithlocks, (c) bathing facilities
with privacy, (d) regular security patrols preferably by female police officers; and (e)
prohibition of alcohol, drugs and gambling, among others; and
5. Active involvement of women in the various camp committees organized for food
and water distribution, nutrition, sanitation and hygiene, shelter, health, education,
protection and security and safety especially in the decision-making processes.
Participation and Representation — The State shall undertake temporary special
measures to accelerate the participation and equitable representation of women
in all spheres of society particularly in the decision-making and policy-making processes
in governmentand privateentities to fully realize their role as agents and beneficiaries of
development. The State shall institute the following affirmative action mechanisms so that
women can participate meaningfully in the formulation, implementation and evaluation of
policies, plans and programsfor national, regional and local development:
A.
All agencies shall take proactive steps to capacitate women employees to strengthen
their qualifications and performance to compete for third-level positions. Given equal
qualifications between men and women,appointing authorities shall appoint womenin
thirdlevel positions.
Further:
1. The CSC andthe Career Executive Service Board (CESB) shall establish and maintain a
roster of womeneligible for managerial executive positions in government, indicating
the positions they presently occupy whetherin the private or public sector. The CSC
and CESB,taking into consideration appropriate training, experience and education
required or desirable for the position, shall furnish these data to the appointing and
recommendingauthorities, including the Office of the President (OP); and
2. AIlNGAs, and wheneverapplicable the LGUs, shall submit to the CESB, every end of the
semester, the list of women whowere appointedto third-level positions. The CESB shall
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