In general, a GAD Plan and Budget is a systematically designed set of programs, activities, and projects (PAPs) with corresponding budget carried out by government agencies departments, including their attached agencies, offices, bureaus, state universities and colleges, government-owned and controlled corporations, local government units and other government instrumentalities over a given period of time to address the gender issues and concerns in their respective sectors and constituents. It systematizes an agency’s approach to gender mainstreaming, women’s empowerment and gender equality.

GAD Attribution

GAD attribution is the process of identifying, estimating, and reporting the proportion of an agency’s regular programs, activities or projects, that directly or indirectly contribute to the gender and development goals. These contributions are considered part of the agency’s GAD budget. Section 36(a) of the MCW requires at least 5% of the agency’s total budget be allocated for GAD programs, activities, and projects.

The Harmonized Gender and Development Guidelines (HGDG) design checklists (HGDG tool) provides a checklist to score the project on its gender-responsiveness during planning, implementation, and monitoring. Based on the total score, a percentage of the project cost can be attributed to the GAD budget. The document can be accessed through:

https://library.pcw.gov.ph/harmonized-gender-and-development-guidelines-for-project-development-implementation-monitoring-and-evaluation-3rd-edition/