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Development of a Gender-Disaggregated Database System, 1993

Ideally, gender-disaggregated data should influence overall national planning processes. To facilitate this, ADB provided technical assistance to the Philippines for the development of a gender-disaggregated database system (1993). The technical assistance grant was provided to the government's focal point on women, the National Council on the Role of Filipino Women (NCRFW), to establish, and more importantly, to sustain, a gender-disaggregated socioeconomic database in NCRFW. The database is being used to carefully monitor, assess, and update the government's National Development Plan for Women, including measurement of how well government policies and programs are adequately addressing gender concerns and existing gender inequalities. The database is serving a dual purpose: it is measuring the impact of efforts made during the decade 1985-1995, and also providing a benchmark for setting targets and evaluating achievements over the next ten years. Four major publications have already resulted from the project: Filipino Women: Issues and Trends; Filipino Women: Facts and Figures; Trends in Women's Employment in the Regions, 1991-1994; and Filipino Women Migrants: a Statistical Fact Book.

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