The municipality did not include the required gender assessment results with its annual gender and development report, so there is no evidence that its major programs and projects were actually gender-responsive.

Why It Matters

Recommended Actions

• Require the GAD Focal Point System to (a) exert efforts to come up with a database on sex-disaggregated data or perform gender analysis to ensure that allocation of funds on GAD-related PPAs are not based on incorrect assumptions and stereotypes
• (b) initiate the capacitation of key members of the GFPS on the use of HGDG tool to guarantee the integration of gender concerns in the design, management, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the agency programs and projects and to determine the efficiency and effectiveness of the LGU’s mainstreaming efforts
• And (c) create a Monitoring and Evaluation Team to evaluate the outcomes of the GAD PPAs.

Original Audit Finding Excerpt

"The GAD AR was not accompanied by results of HGDG test to assess the gender-responsiveness of its major programs and projects."

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