In general, the GAD Agenda is the agency’s strategic framework and plan on gender mainstreaming and achieving women’s empowerment and gender equality.
It serves as basis for identifying programs, activities, and projects to be undertaken to achieve the GAD goals and outcomes; provide the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework for assessing GAD results and outcomes.
The GAD Agenda consider the results from consultations with target women beneficiaries as well as women’s groups or organizations and other stakeholders, and the identified gaps resulting from the gender analysis.
The GAD Strategic Framework (GADSF) outlines the agency’s GAD Vision, Mission and Goals anchored on the mandate of the agency; while GAD Strategic Plan (GAD SP) defines the strategic interventions, indicators, and targets to be pursued to achieve GAD goals over a period of time.
The timeframe of the GAD Agenda for GOCCs is six years. Accordingly, the GADSP must be consistent with the agency’s Strategic Plan for the same period.
PCW Memorandum Circular (MC) No. 2018-04 dated May 4, 2018 provides the guidelines and procedures in the formulation, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the multi-year GAD Agenda as basis for the annual GAD Plans and Budgets of agencies.
Based on the PCW MC No. 2018-04, a review after three years and an end-term evaluation of the GADSF and GADSP shall be conducted by the GFPS and the reports shall be prepared and submitted to PCW.