Gender Mainstreaming in KALAHI–CIDSS National Community-Driven Development Program: An Assessment

By Asian Development Bank

This publication examines the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan---Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services National Community-Driven Development Program, which promotes women's participation and empowerment in the Philippines. The challenges and constraints observed in the program serve as lessons to enhance gender mainstreaming initiatives in community-driven development projects and programs.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Asian Development Bank
• Release date: Dec 1, 2018
• ISBN: 9789292614355

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GENDER MAINSTREAMING IN THE KALAHI–CIDSS NATIONAL COMMUNITY-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

An Assessment

DECEMBER 2018

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ISBN 978-92-9261-434-8 (print), 978-92-9261-435-5 (electronic)

Publication Stock No. TIM189716-2

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22617/TIM189716-2

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Cover photo: Women at work. A road marker underscores women’s labor participation as Tita Limbudan Sam (right), a volunteer of Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services-National Community-Driven Development Program, leads fellow volunteers in the concreting of a 240-linear meter barangay road in Centro Barangay Little Baguio, Malita, Davao Occidental, Philippines.

The program created more opportunities for women’s participation in livelihood and community development. As of 30 August 2018, 464,329 of 787,149 total laborers in community subprojects are women who received 610 million in wages (photo by Julie Ace B. Ramos, Department of Social Welfare and Development).

CONTENTS

List of Figures and Case Studies

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This study was prepared under the Asian Development Bank’s Technical Assistance on Enhancing Capacities for the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan–Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services National Community-Driven Development Project (KC–NCDDP), financed by the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction. Rikard Elfving, senior social sector specialist, Human and Social Development Division (SEHS), Southeast Asia Department; Karin Schelzig, principal social sector specialist (now at East Asia Department); and Yukiko Ito, senior social development specialist, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department, provided guidance on the conduct of the study in close coordination with Joven Valenzuela, program evaluation specialist at the KC-NCDDP National Program Management Office (NPMO) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development.

Lourdes Cresencio-Turiano, gender and development consultant, with Melanie Sison, co-researcher, conducted the study and prepared this report. The NPMO Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Unit headed by Abigail