concerned agencies and media organizations, shall formulate
media guidelines to protect
women against discrimination in
media and film.
B. The Office of the Press Secretary (OPS) and its
attached agencies shall ensure the formulation of policies and
implementation of programs pursuant to the Act and these Rules
and Regulations. It shall also:
1. Provide over-all direction, guidance and monitoring
as lead agency of government mass media in the
implementation of the Act and these Rules and
Regulations;
2. Formulate and implement a national communication
plan and advocacy activities on the Act and these Rules
and Regulations and relevant gender issues/concerns;
and
3. Create a gender equality committee composed of
representatives from the OPS, PCW, various selfbodies
and
the
regulatory
National
Telecommunications Commission (NTC), Movie and
Television
Review
and
Classification
Board
(MTRCB), Film Academy of the Philippines (FAP),
Film
Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP)
Optical Media Board (OMB), National Commission for
Culture and the Arts
women's
media
mainstreaming,
(NCCA), representatives
NGOs
formulate
to
the
promote
gender
of
gender
gender
equality
guidelines and Code of Ethics for media, and monitor
and evaluate the
C. The NTC,
implementation thereof.
MTRCB, FAP,
FDCP, OMB,
shall ensure that the media and film
industries comply with
Act and these Rules and
NCCA
the
Regulations, including:
1.
Formulation of policies and
programs to raise
consciousness of the general public in recognizing the
dignity of women and the role and contribution of
women in all
spheres of private and public
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life;