Committees on Women, Children and Family, and Appropriations, and representatives from the PNP's Women'sDesk, Indigenous Peoples(IPs), and Persons with Disabilities, private sectors, and other nongovernment organizations as members. The GFP TWG or secretariat shall be composedof, butnotlimited to, technical staff from the various departments and concerned Sanggunian committees. The GFP TWG Chair shall be elected from among the GFP TWG members. The secretariat shall be designated by the GFP TWGChair. The agency/LGU shall ensure thatall members of the GFP undergo capacity building programs on gender and development which shall include but not be limited to: gender sensitivity training (GST), gender analysis, GAD planning and budgeting, and genderaudit. 2. General Functions of the GAD Focal Point - The GFP shall ensure and sustain the agency's or LGU's critical consciousness and support on women and genderissues. The GFPshall take a leadrole in direction-setting, advocacy, planning, monitoring and evaluation, and technical advisory on mainstreaming GAD perspectivs in the agency/ LGU programs,projects, activities, and processes. In doing so, the GFP shall: a. Lead the assessment of the gender-responsiveness of policies, strategies, programs,activities, and projects of the agency/LGU based onthepriority needs and concerns ofits constituency, and the formulation of recommendations and ensuretheir implementation; b. Assist in the formulation of new policies such as the GAD Code in advancing women's status in the case of LGUs; c. Leadin setting up appropriate systems and mechanisms to ensure the generation, processing, review, and updating of sex-disaggregated data or GAD database to serve asbasis in performance-based gender-responsiveplanning; d. Coordinate efforts of different divisions/offices/units of the agency or LGU and advocatefor the integration of GADperspectivesin all their systems and processes; e. Spearhead the preparation of the agency or LGU annual performance-based GAD Plans, Programs, and Budgetin response to the womenand genderissues of their employees/constituencies, following the format and procedure prescribed by the PCW; f. Lead in monitoring the effective implementation of the GAD Code and any other GAD-relatedpolicies, and the annual GADPlans, Programs, and Budget; g. Lead the preparation of the annual agency/LGU GAD Accomplishment Report and other GAD reports that may be required underthe Act; h. Promote the participation of women and gender advocates, other civil society groupsandprivate organizations in the various stages of development planning cycle; and i. D. Ensure thatall personnel of the agency/LGU including the auditors are capacitated on GAD. The PCWshall issue guidelines to further assist the agencies, LGUs, and other governmentinstrumentalities in creating and strengthening their GFP System. GAD Database — All departments, including their attached agencies, offices, bureaus, SUCs, GOCCs,LGUs,and other governmentinstrumentalities shall develop and maintain a GADdatabasecontaining GADinformation to include genderstatistics and age- and sex- disaggregated data that have been systematically produced/gathered,regularly updated to serve asinputs or basesfor planning, programing,and policy formulation. The National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB), upon the recommendation of the Inter- Agency Committee on GenderStatistics (IACGS), shall issue statistical policies on the generation 83