Davao City Water District

People refers to the relevant stakeholders who assume the task of gender mainstreaming. Although policy frameworks, enabling mechanisms and gender-integrated projects and programs are critical components to successful linkages and mainstreaming efforts, without committed human resource, the goal of the organization towards gender mainstreaming will never be realized.

With this, the Davao City Water District (DCWD) ensures that the following are involved especially in ensuring a gender-responsive environment:

GAD champions among top management who actively support the gender mainstreaming program;
Recognition of GAD Focal Point System and staff members as GAD experts;
Internal and external clients who are able to participate in the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programs, activities and projects.

In order to capacitate them, DCWD, with the support of the top management, conducts various GAD related training and workshops especially to the selected GAD Focal Point Systems (GFPS) and key persons of each department to raise awareness and competence in Gender and Development (GAD). Moreover, DCWD maintains and continuously trains accredited Philippine Commission on Women (PCW) and Civil Service Commission (CSC) GAD Resource Persons who are not only committed to capacitate the members of our internal organization but also to our partner agencies and communities.

GAD CHAMPIONS/ADVOCATES AMONG TOP MANAGEMENT

The key to achieving gender equality at all levels of an organization is to make gender diversity and inclusion an agency initiative that is prioritized by the top management. This means that the latter should direct the implementation of the GAD Plans and Budget (GPB) in reference to PCW Memorandum Circular 2018-04 that states, "the head of agency or top management shall approve the GAD Agenda, and issue policies ensuring its implementation by the organization’s sub-units."

In DCWD, the top management is responsible for the approval and issuances of directive/s to integrate GAD perspective in the organization's PAPs and performance indicators. Since the very beginning of GAD in the organization, our leaders showed their constant support on gender-related advocacies especially during meeting such as giving their approvals to the GAD Agenda which was then became the basis of our GAD Plans and Budgets. They even participate to significant GAD activities and allow all key officials, GFPS members and staff to participate in those events.

To further intensify and raise their awareness and consciousness on GAD related policies and mandates, all top management officials were mandated to attend to basic GAD Orientation or Gender Sensitivity Training (GST).

Ma. Luisa V. Jacinto (top photo), a member of DCWD Board of Directors, and Engr. Edwin V. Regalado (bottom photo), DCWD General Manager, delivering their welcome address to the participants during the 1st GAD Summit for Local Water Districts (LWDs).

GAD EXPERTS

GAD Focal Point System (GFPS) is an interacting and interdependent group of people in all government instrumentality tasked to catalyze and accelerate gender mainstreaming. It is a mechanism established to ensure and advocate for, guide, coordinate, and monitor the development, implementation, review and updating of their GAD plans and GAD-related programs, activities and projects. (PCW MC No. 2011-01).

In DCWD, the GFPS has been established to lead the gender mainstreaming initiatives in the organization. Majority of the members occupy strategic positions in the organization. To date, we have thirty-eight (38) members of GFPS and is in the frontline integrating GAD perspectives to different departmental PAPs/PIPs.

To aid the GFPS in their GAD efforts, the GAD Unit was established to harmonize all GAD efforts of the organization. Series of community consultations and deepening sessions within and outside the organization were done to ensure that gender mainstreaming is intensified to internal and external clients.

INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CLIENTS

Internal and external clients refer to the intended beneficiaries of GAD Programs, Activities, and Projects (PAPs) of the organization. In the definition given by PCW, the term "Target" means "the individual or group who must actually change or those who will benefit from development." These individuals are the focus of the change endeavor and play a critical role in an organization's gender mainstreaming activities' short and long-term success.

To equip them with GAD, series of gender-related capacity programs and events were given to both internal and external clients. This enables them to participate in all levels of the development planning cycle, implementation and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of DCWD's GAD PAPs.

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