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Republic of the Philippines

Province of Aklan
Municipality of Balete

EXCERPTS FROM THE MINUTES OF THE 84th REGULAR SESSION (10th for the
Year 2006) OF THE SANGGUNIANG BAYAN (for the period 2004-2007) OF THE
MUNICIPALITY OF BALETE, AKLAN HELD ON THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 2006
AT THE SESSION HALL
Present:
HON. RIZAL G. RODRIGUEZ, JR. Vice Mayor /Presiding
HON. EVELYN V. VILLANUEVA SB Member
HON. ROMAN R. VILLARUEL SB Member
HON. CIPRIANO L. LACHICA SB Member
HON. INOCENTES F. BANTIGUE, JR. SB Member
HON. ELVIS S. REQUIRO SB Member
HON. PETER C. RECIDORO SB Member
HON. PAULINO P. BALLEZA, JR. SB Member
HON. MANUEL V. CUATERNO Pres., Liga ng mga Barangay
HON. ELDA B. FELIPE SK Federation President
Absent:
HON. APOLINAR C. CLEOPE SB Member
Also Present:
HON. TEODORO V. CALIZO, JR. Municipal Mayor
DR. REYNALDO L. TAD-Y, PH.D. Applicant

ORDINANCE NO. 002-2006

AN ORDINANCE ENACTING THE GENDER AND

DEVELOPMENT (GAD) CODE OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF
BALETE AND MANDATING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A
COMPREHENSIVE AND SUSTAINABLE GAD PROGRAM

Be it ordained by the Sangguniang Bayan, that,

CHAPTER I – GENERAL PROVISIONS

ARTICLE 1
TITLE, DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES AND POLICIES AND
DEFINITIONS OF TERMS

Section 1. Title. This ordinance shall be known and cited as the “Gender and
Development Code of the Municipality of Balete” hereinafter referred to as the Code.

Section 2. Declaration of Principles and Policies. It shall be the policy of the

Local Government of the Municipality of Balete to uphold the rights of women, believe
in their worth, and protect their dignity as human beings; Women shall be recognized as
full and equal partners of men in the development of our nation, sharing equality in their
responsibilities and enjoying equally in the fruits thereof.
The Local Government of the Municipality of Balete, in its commitment to the
establishment of a national and international order based on sustainable and equitable
growth undertakes to facilitate the full development of women’s potentials towards the
improvement of the quality of their lives, their families and that of their communities.
The Local Government of the Municipality of Balete, fully cognizant of women’s
efforts towards empowerment and self determination, shall vigorously pursue and
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implement gender-responsive development policies, design an integrated gender and

development support systems, and implement measures to protect and promote their
rights.
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TO ATTAIN THE FOREGOING POLICY

1. A reasonable amount from the official development assistance received from foreign
governments and multilateral agencies and organizations shall be set aside to support
programs and activities for women in accordance with the provisions of RA 7192,
otherwise known as the Women in Development and Nation Building Act, by the Local
Government of the Municipality of Balete provided that it shall conform with the
requirement and conditions set forth by the funding agencies.
2. The local government of the municipality of Balete shall ensure that women benefit
equally and participate directly in the government programs and projects of said agencies
specifically those funded under foreign development assistance to ensure in the
development process pursuant to RA 7192.
3. All government project proposals shall ascertain the inclusion of gender responsive
indicators and guidelines focusing on roots of women’s oppression, pursuant to the
United Nations Declarations of which the Philippine Government is a signatory.
4. All local governments departments and agencies in the municipality of Balete shall
review and revise all their regulations, circulars, issuances and procedures to remove
gender biases herein and shall complete the same within two years.
5. The Gender and Development Inter-Agency Committee of the Municipality of Balete
shall be actively consulted in matters dealing with official development assistance or
foreign aid so as to determine gender biases and implications on women.

SECTION 3. Related Principles. To facilitate the development of the full

potentials of women, the following rights defined and declared under the United Nations
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
(CEDAW) are hereby declared under this ordinance.
3.1 Women have the right to the prevention of, and protection from all forms of
violence and coercion against their person, their freedom, their sexuality, and their
individuality;
3.2 Women have the right to freely and duly participate, individually or
collectively in the political processes of their communities and nation;
3.3 Women have the right to the means for assuring their economic welfare and
security;
3.4 Women have the right to the necessary knowledge and means for the full
exercise of their reproductive choice with the constitution and their beliefs and
preferences;
3.5 Women have the right to choose a spouse in accordance with their values and
preferences, maintain equality in marriage or its dissolution, and receive adequate
support for rearing and caring of their children;
3.6 Women have the right to an adequate, relevant and gender-fair education
throughout their lives, from childhood to adulthood;
3.7 Women have the right to adequate nutrition, proper health care and humane
living conditions;
3.8 Women have the right to nurture their personhood, collectively and
individually, to secure an image of themselves as whole and valuable beings, to
build relationships based on respect, trust and mutuality;
3.9 Women have the right to equality before the law, in principle and in practice.
However, it is unfortunate that as of the moment a macho image of our society
still exists as it continues to view women as the “weaker sex,” men are
traditionally the heads of the households and in most organizations. Aside from
ramp modeling and beauty contests, women today do not share the power and
prestige, status and societal positions as men. They rather play supportive roles to
men and tend to live to the idea that major decisions are made prerogatives.
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Oftentimes, women are exploited in media, commercials, impressing upon the

public that without their attractive and pleasing features, products would be less
appealing. But in reality, women should not be viewed as second class to men but
as partners of men in development.
In the light of these historical gender biases, inequalities and inequities,
this piece of local legislation will provide the Municipal Government a policy
direction to formulate programs and strategies, among others, that will:
1. Mainstream gender concerns in sectoral development plans, policies
and program.
2. Intensify awareness campaign on gender issues and concerns.
3. Strengthen GO-PO-NGO partnership to maximize the effectiveness of
programs and services addressing Gender and Development (GAD) concerns.
4. Encourage, support and expand the participation of grassroots women in
the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development
programs and projects.
5. Recommend appropriate curricula academic that are gender-sensitive.
6. Provide gender-responsive relief and rehabilitation programs with
special focus on women and children’s needs.
7. Involve men in family planning programs, health and child care and
nutrition concerns and engage them in projects that enhance the well-being of the
family.
8. Set-up crisis intervention centers and shelters in the Municipality of
Balete for survivors of violence against women and children and other social
conflicts.
9. Promote gender sensitivity in local media and advertising agencies.
10. Increase the members of women in decision and policy making posts
in the locality through implementation of capability building programs.

Section 4. Definition of Terms. The following terms or phrases used in this Code
shall mean as follows:
1. Battering – a series of physical, emotional and psychological abuse. It is repeated and
habitual cyclic patterns as means of intimidation and imposition of the batterer’s will and
control over the survivor’s life. It constitutes the following kind of behavior but is not
limited to:
a. Sexual battering – this includes physical attacks on the woman’s breast, genital
or forced sexual activity;
b. Psychological battering – this includes threats of suicide, violence against
women or her family, punching holes in the walls, threatening to take the children
away, threatening deportation of wives with foreign citizenship, threatening to
kidnap children or take them to a country and forcing the victim to do degrading
things. It may also include controlling the victim’s lawful or usual activities, the
use of foul words or statements and threats or abandonment and expulsion such as
forcing the wife to leave the conjugal dwelling. This provision shall likewise
apply to common-law relations but does not include adulterous ones as
contemplated in the Revised Penal Code.
c. Economic battering – this includes deprivation of women of economic
resources, their generation and mobilization so as to create dependency and
submissiveness to men and to any established structures of domination.
d. Premeditated and intentional destruction of property and pets usually the
victim’s favorite.
2. Benefit Dance/ Disco – refers to a dance in the locality where women are
commoditized for fund raising purposes.
3. Collateral relatives – next of kin who are not in direct line or inheritance such as
cousin
4. Commoditization of Women – is a practice which puts women in a subordinated
situation, which results in the treatment of women as both consumers and objects of
consumption, as consumers women are allured to buy beauty products to enhance their
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physical attractiveness, as objects of consumption women are reduced to a sexual

commodity for manipulation and utilization for one’s sexual desire or interest, usually in
exchange of money or goods so that women have no power or control to reject such
utilization or manipulation.
5. Development – the improvement of the quality of life of all regardless of age, sex,
gender, tribe, race, creed and religion. It is characterized by sustained and equitable
growth in a balanced ecology
6. Differently-abled Persons – are survivors of physical impairments that have
differentiated needs and potentials.
7. Discrimination against women – any distraction, exclusion or restriction made on the
basis of sex which has the effect or purpose of impairing or nullifying the recognition,
enjoyment or exercise by women of their rights irrespective of their marital status.
8. Equity is a concept of distributive justice which is remedial and is intended to
overcome bias, favoritism and inequalities.
9. Empowerment - refers to a process by which women are mobilized to understand,
identify and overcome gender discrimination.
10. Feminization of Poverty – a condition when the gap between the rich and the poor
widens and grassroots women bear the brunt as in economic instability and unequal
distribution of wealth. Such gap reinforces non-response to both practical and strategic
needs of grassroots women.
11. Fund Raising Initiatives – refers to any activity, whether in whole or in part
integrated in any raffle draw, benefit or disclosure, premier showing of movies, or any
similar fund raising undertaking where women are used as donor prize, substitute for cash
prizes won, a companion package for an award prize or recognition or any manner,
activity, come-on display or exhibits which depicts a woman as central, partial or special
focus in order to raise funds.
12. Gender refers to the differentiated social roles, behavior, capacities and intellectuals,
emotional and social characteristic attributed by a given culture to women and men, in
short all differences besides the strictly biological. There are two kinds of gender:
masculine ascribed to the male sex and feminine ascribed to the female.
13. Gender and Development- shall refer to a development perspective which promotes
greater focus on people both as development agents and participant. It encourages the
equal contributions of women and men in all aspects/sectors of development. Such a
perspective involves the process of searching for new and innovative initiatives which
help transform unequal gender relations into opportunities where equality in both men
and women exists. It recognizes that the unequal relation between women and men is a
major deterrent to social and economics progress. It acknowledges that the difficulties
encountered by women have to be addressed to ensure their effective participation in
development. It envisions a future society where women and men equally contribute to
and benefit from development.
14. Gender Equality – is the role required by or expected of women and men as
prescribed by society. As a key to development, gender equality means the equal
empowerment and participation of women, men and other subgroups of society, i.e.
homosexuals, in all spheres of public and private life.
15. Gender Mainstreaming – refers to the strategy of integrating gender and
development concerns and issues at all levels.
16. Gender Perspective – way of viewing issues and problems that take into
consideration the different realities of women’s and men’s lives and recognizing that
there is an unequal relationship between the two.
17. Gender planning – means taking account of gender issues in planning. In
development planning, it means that gender issues are recognized in the identification of
problems and addressed in development objectives.
18. Gender sensitive/responsive – having an understanding of the marginalized position
of women and consciously challenging the attitudes and behavior that reinforce women’s
subordinate status.
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19. Gender sensitization – is an experimental and critical process of learning and

unlearning of an individual female or male of the causes and effects of the culturally
determined roles of women and men.
20. Gender sensitivity training - means providing people with formal learning experience
in order to increase their awareness. The overall purpose of the training is to provide the
knowledge and skills necessary to recognize and address gender issues in the
programming process. At the center of the learning process is the conscientization,
involving the ability to recognize the underlying issues of gender inequality which form a
pervasive obstacle to program progress. 21. Indecent shows – are shows which include
nude or other provocative gestures which further project and exhibit men and women as
sex-objects.
22. Indigenous people – a group of people who have continuously lived as organized
community or communally bounded and defined territory, and who have, under claims of
ownership since time immemorial, occupied, possessed and utilized such territories
sharing common bonds of language, customs, traditions and other distinctive cultural
traits. They are regarded as indigenous on account of their decent from the populations
who inhabited the country at the time of conquest or colonialization and who retain some
or all of their own social, economic, cultural and political institution and have been
displaced from their traditional domains or who may have remitted outside their ancestral
domain.
23. Minors – refers to persons below 18 years of age and unable to take care of
themselves from abuse, neglect, cruelty, exploitation or discrimination.
24. Land-based projects – are projects designed systematically in order to provide
women the opportunity to have full-access and control over the maximum utilization of
land and other indigenous resources.
25. Mail Order Bride – is a practice where a woman establishes personal relationships
with a male foreign national via mail or similar means upon recruitment by an agency
operating for the purpose.
26. Other places of Amusement – include all other places of amusement not specifically
enumerated or otherwise provided for in this code, included but not limited to night clubs
or day clubs, cocktail lounges, super or family clubs, disco houses , minus-one or sing-
along houses, bars or beerhouses gardens, fast food center showing sports competitions,
replay videocassette films/movies and other places of amusement where one seeks
admission to entertain oneself by seeing or viewing or by direct participation.
27. Places of amusement – includes theaters, cinemas, concert halls, circuses and other
places of amusements when one seeks admission to entertain oneself by seeing viewing
the show or performances.
28. Pornography Scenes, Pictures, Publications – written or graphic or other forms of
communications intended to entertain lascivious feelings.
29. Prostitution – is the sale, purchase and exchange of women and minors for sexual
exploitation for each project or other economic considerations by an individual including
but not limited to pimp, procurer of the service parents, owners of establishments such as
hotels and restaurants and any other persons who uses various schemes to prostitute
women and minors. It is the act as defined under the Revised Penal Code of the
Philippines and shall be recognized as a violation of human rights and exploitation of
women who have no real choices for survival.
30. Reproductive Health – is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being
and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity, in all matters relating to the
reproductive system and to its function and process. It constitutes 10 elements namely:
a. Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition
b. Family Planning
c. Prevention and Treatment of Reproductive Tract Infection (RT) including STD,
HIV and AIDS
d. Prevention and Management of Abortion Complication
e. Education and Counseling on Sexuality and Sexual Health
f. Breast and Reproductive Tract Cancers and other Gynecological Situation
g. Prevention and Treatment of Infertility and Sexual Disorders
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h. Men’s Reproductive Health

i. Violence Against Women and Children
j. Adolescent Reproductive Health

ARTICLE II
GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

Section 5. Integrated Gender and Development Program

5.1 The Local Government of the Municipality of Balete shall ensure the
integration of Gender and Development (GAD) in the local planning and budgeting
system through the formulation of GAD plans as stipulated in DILG-DBM-NCRFW
Joint Memorandum Circular No. 2001-01 “GUIDELINES FOR INTEGRATING
GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT (GAD) IN THE LOCAL PLANNING SYSTEM
THROUGH THE FORMULATION OF GAD PLANS.”
5.2 The Local Government of the Municipality of Balete shall ensure that the
Philippine Plan for Gender and Responsive Development (PDGD) which was adopted
through Executive Order 273 is implemented for women in relation to the services
stipulated is Republic Act 7160 of the Local Government Code of 1991 particularly
Sections 16 and 17 and other related provisions.
5.3 The LGU of the Municipality of Balete shall ensure that all barangays under
its jurisdiction shall prepare a GAD plan addressing gender issues of their locality
following Sections 16 and 17 of the Local Government Code of 1991 and other related
provisions.
5.4 The LGU of the Municipality shall integrate gender concerns in the
formulation of the Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP), Comprehensive Land Use
Plan (CLUP) and Annual Investment Plan (AIP).
5.5 The formulation of the GAD plan shall follow the regular planning and budget
calendar and shall anchor on the existing CDP, CLUP and AIP
5.6 It is the responsibility of the Municipal Planning Development Coordinator to ensure
that GAD PPA’s are integrated in the local planning process.

Section 6. Support to Gender Studies. A sufficient amount shall be allotted to

gender-related documentation and researchers, which shall form part of Municipality of
Balete data based program

Section 7. Popularization of Gender-fair materials. There shall be an active

promotion and publication of gender-fair materials in popular forms in the Municipality
of Balete.

Section 8. Integrated Gender Sensitive and Environment – Friendly Zonification

Plan. An Integrated Gender-Sensitive and Environment-Friendly Zonification Plan for
the Municipality of Balete shall be established taking into consideration among others the
following:
a. Relocation of communities shall not deprive anyone of their sources of livelihood
b. Allocation sites shall not contribute to an increase in anyone’s burden in economic,
home and social production.
c. Housing and industrial project sites shall be those unproductive lands unsuitable for
agricultural purposes.

Section 9. Community-Based Environment Plans and Programs. Both men and

women shall participate in pollution control, zero waste technology development and
management, preservation of the forest, with due respect to indigenous people’s rights to
self-determination.

Section 10. Gender-Sensitive Natural Resources-Based Management Program.

The Local Government of the Municipality of Balete shall engage itself in gender-
sensitive natural resources-based management program.
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Section 11. Role of Women in Environment Impact Assessment Project. The

Municipal Government shall promote the active role of women in environmental impact
assessment projects.

Section 12. Promotion of Alternative Technology. The Municipal government shall

actively promote alternative technology that is appropriate and safe for everybody’s well-
being.

Section 13. Sufficient Budget for Basic Social Services. An amount necessary to
underwrite basic social services for women and children in extremely difficult
circumstances shall be allocated from any available source of funds.

Section 14. Gender Sensitivity Training for the Lupong Tagapamayapa. A

special paralegal training for the Lupong Tagapamayapa shall be conducted along gender
questions and related matters.

Section 15. Gender Sensitivity Training for Barangay Tanods. There shall be a
gender sensitivity training for Barangay Tanods.

Section 16. Training on Non-Traditional Occupation. Women shall be given

opportunity to acquire training on non-traditional occupations such as those related to
science and technology.

ARTICLE III
HEALTH

Section 17. Statement of Policy. No woman shall be denied basic health and
services such as those declared by World Health Organization as necessary to respond to
basic health needs especially those that relate to maternal health care on purely financial
grounds or lack of access thereto.

Section 18. Budget for Women’s Health. A substantial portion of the health
budget of the municipal government shall be allocated for women’s health and services

Section 19. Women’s Right Over Their Bodies. Women’s decision to prevent
and control pregnancy without necessarily resulting to abortion shall be given appropriate
support and guidance by all health, professionals, private and public at very minimal cost.

Section 20. Access to Safe Water in the Municipality. The Municipal

Government shall provide easy access to safe water supply. Appropriate water systems
shall be installed to ease women’s workload brought about by the lack of this facility.

Section 21. Gender Fair Health Care Delivery Service. The Municipal Health
Officer shall ensure that health care services are not discriminating on account of gender,
age, religion or political affiliation.

Section 22. Reproductive Health Care – The Municipality shall adopt the
Reproductive Health Care approach at the levels of health care delivery. Such approach
shall integrate many issues not previously considered central to population such as
sexuality, reproductive tract infection and gender relations and shall not be limited to
family planning and child bearing.

Section 23. Reproductive Health Services. No hospital or medical facility

operating within the territorial jurisdiction of the Municipality of Balete shall deny
reproductive health services to any woman by reason of the latter’s poverty.
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Section 24. Information Education on Women’s Health. The Municipal Health

Officer in collaboration of the Municipal Health Board shall endeavor to improve the
implementation of education/information campaign on women’s health. In connection
with this, the Municipal Government shall facilitate the celebration of the International
Day of Action for the Women’s Health every May 28 of each year where issues and
concerns relative to the protection of and promotion of women’s health shall be
examined, deliberated, projected and government action sought.

Section 25. Protection Against Drug Abuse. A special task force shall be
created and sustained by the municipality for the protection against drug abuse and
proliferation of illicit drugs.

ARTICLE IV
EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Section 26. Statement of Policy. The municipal government shall endeavor to

improve access of women to technology-based education and training program.

Section 27. Women Literacy and Adult Education. In cooperation with the
Department of Education, non-formal education classes for all shall be held in identified
schools in the municipality to facilitate working persons’ access to education. Anyone
desiring to engage in functional and practical education shall be enlisted in the adult
education program which shall be set-up in the municipality.

Section 28. Gender Fair Curricula. The municipality shall ensure that the
curricula in all schools at all levels in the municipality promote complementary roles
between women and men and provide gender-sensitive materials and gender sensitivity
orientation to every class.

Section 29. Special Education for Differently-Abled Women. The municipal

government shall ensure that all interested differently-abled women of the municipality
shall have access to special education programs.

Section 30. Sex Education. Sex education for the pre-puberty ages shall be
introduced in the right way, at the right place and by the right people. Understanding
human sexuality is an intimate and personal matter that is a concern not only of parents
but also of other institutions that have the competence to carry out such obligation of
molding children in the context of Godly life and love.

Section 31. Scholarship Program. The municipality shall institutionalize its

scholarship programs for poor but deserving students and shall not disqualify married
women and mothers with infants.

ARTICLE V
LABOR, EMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES

Section 32. Statement of Policy. The municipality shall ensure that all
departments and agencies shall engage in and expand their socio-economic programs to
include women as beneficiaries and implement programs and projects designed to further
capacitate women to empower them to access medium and large scale economic
opportunities.

Section 33. Equal Access to Employment and Training Program. No one shall
be denied of employment opportunity on account of gender, age, ethnicity, creed, religion
and civil status, as prescribed in the Labor Code as amended by RA 6725. Likewise, no
one shall be denied of training and promotion in employment.
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Section 34. Wage and Benefits. Every employee shall comply with the minimum
wage as prescribed by the Regional Wage Board and shall grant all benefits to all
employees such as maternity/paternity leave, sick and vacation leave, retirement
termination and other benefits provided by law.

Section 35. Facilities and Support System to Employees. The Municipal

Government shall ensure the safety and health of women in appropriate cases, provide
facilities such as:
a. separate toilet rooms and lavatories for men and women and at least a dressing
room for women; and
b. breastfeeding, child rearing and early childhood care centers/rooms for working
parents while on their respective jobs.

Section 36. Orientation on Sexual Harassment. All local offices, school

agencies and establishment or companies, government and private, operating in the
municipality shall conduct or sponsor orientation on sexual harassment to their respective
personnel.

Section 37. Organization and Functionalization of Local Councils for the

Protection of Women and Children. The municipality shall ensure the reactivation of
the Barangay Councils for the protection of women and children.

Section 38. Equal Access to Livelihood Assistance. All municipal departments

and agencies engaged in socio-economic programs shall increase their capital assistance
and or subsidy to women especially on land-based projects.

Section 39. Access to Science and Women Friendly Farming Technology

Education. The Municipal PESO officers shall work in collaboration with other related
line agencies of the Municipal Government, and the private sector to ensure access to
updated and women friendly technology to facilitate women’s under participation in the
economic activities of their respective barangays.

Section 40. Farmland for Women Headed Families. Portion of agricultural

lands, the ownership of which is transferred to the Municipal Government by legal fiat,
shall be distributed to landless and indigent families who are interested and committed to
till the land, giving priority to woman-headed household.

Section 41. Employment Opportunities to Differently-Abled Women. The

Municipal Government in partnership with appropriate national government agencies and
private groups and other entities shall develop creative employment opportunities to
differently-abled women recognizing their differentiated conditions and potentials as
human being.

Section 42. Healthy and Gender Fair Work Environment. The Municipal
Government shall ensure that the work place, private or public, actualizes the principle of
equality between women and men in all aspects of their employment. For this purpose,
employers are required to provide seats proper for women and permit them to use such
seats when they are free from each and during walking hours, provided they can perform
their duties in this position without detriment to efficiency and provide workers with the
necessary gear to guard against the detrimental effects of the nature of their functions
such as the special support stocking for female workers required to perform their
functions in standing position.

Section 43. Benefit for Post – Partum Women. Women with children 0-6
months old shall be entitled to a 30-day leave without pay to be availed of within the first
six months of child delivery, provided that this benefit is separate and distinct from any
existing maternity benefits provided for by existing laws, provided further that if the
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employer is already providing similar benefit over and above what is existing laws,
require, such benefit being provided shall be credited in compliance thereof.

Section 44. Gender-Sensitive Physical Plan. A physical plan appropriate for

gender-sensitive environment shall be adopted by all offices, agencies and establishment
or companies which will help prevent sexual harassment, sexual abuse and other forms of
maltreatment in the work place.

Section 45. Employment assistance Program. The Municipal Government in

cooperation with the Department of Labor and Employment shall endeavor to assist poor
students, the unemployed and underemployed in securing gainful employment.

Section 46. Municipal Based Registration of Helpers. The Municipality shall

come up with an Annual Survey of domestic helpers in the barangays to monitor cases of
sexual harassment, sexual abuse and other forms of maltreatment. Employees must
provide their househelps a recreational day-off at terms and conditions mutually agreed
by both parties.

Section 47. Spousal Support. Women and their children are by law entitled to
support from their spouses for this purpose. All agreements or settlements arrived at the
barangay level relative to the support of the family shall be final and executory.
Innovations of the agreement shall be allowed only if the same is advantageous to the
children.

ARTICLE VI
POLITICAL AND PUBLIC SPHERE OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN

Section 48. Statement of Policy .The Municipality shall ensure the fundamental
equality before the law of men and women open as an arena for their active participatory
role in the development process.

Section 49. Declaration of March 8 as a Women’s Day. As declared by the

United Nations, March 8 shall be observed as Women’s Day through an issuance of an
Executive Order by the Municipal Mayor. There shall be a municipal level set of articles,
for women to increase their level of awareness and critical consciousness on the issues
affecting them.

Section 50. Municipal Self Organization of Women. The municipal

government through the Gender and Development Inter-agency committee shall
encourage and support the formation of community-based organizations, and facilitate
their accreditation with the Sangguniang Bayan.

Section 51. National Children’s Month. Pursuant to Presidential Proclamation

No. 267, dated September 30, 1993, the Municipality shall observe the month of October
as National Children’s Month and undertake projects in the observance thereafter

Section 52. Participation of Women in Local Governance. To widen and

enhance participation of women in local government decision-making and administration,
the Municipal Government shall ensure the participation of women to the Sangguniang
Bayan and all Local Special Bodies in the municipality. These women representatives
shall be elected among the accredited women’s organizations in the municipality as a
concrete manifestation of women place in local governance and in accordance to RA
7160.
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Section 53. Creation of the Municipal Gender and Development Inter-

Agency Committee. The Municipal Gender and Development Inter-Agency Committee
(GAD-IAC) is hereby created and shall serve as the Focal Point of GAD programs.
53.1. The GAD-IAC shall be composed of the following:
Chairperson - Municipal Mayor
Co-Chairperson - SB Chairperson of the Committee on Women and
Family
Members - Vice Mayor
Members of the Committee on Women & Family
MSWDO Women & Children Protection Desk
Municipal Agriculturist
MARO
DILG/MLGOO
Municipal Information Officer
Municipal Budget Officer
Liga ng mga Barangay President
SK Federation President
HRMO
Department of Education
Municipal Planning and Development Coordinator
Women Representative from NGO’s, PO’s
PNP Women and Children’s Desk
Municipal Community Development Officer
Population Officer
NGO-Religious Sector
Municipal Health Officer
Representative from Business Sector
Representative from Labor Sector
53.2 The GAD-Inter- Agency Committee shall be tasked with the following:
a. Catalyze, coordinate, provide direction, monitor and serve as technical
adviser on programs/projects on women/gender and development concerns
within the municipality.
b. Review the mandated tasks of the LGU as per RA 7192 and other
Presidential directives on the course of action to be taken
c. Conduct a Gender-Responsive Planning Workshop
d. Make a Comprehensive and Integrated Plan and Program for women in the
municipality and ensure the implementation thereof
e. Establish a data bank unit
f. Facilitate a Trainers’ Training on GAD
g. Ensure that GAD Activities of the LGU are replicated at the barangay level
h. Assess the performance of the committee and learn from the experience of
others by attending Annual Focal Point Assemblies and
i. Establish linkage with the NCRFW.
53.3 The Human Resource Management Officer of the LGU shall act as Focal Point
Officer of the Municipality and shall have the following functions:
a. see to it that Gender and Development concerns especially for women and
children are reflected in the Annual both short and long term and that
implementation are made thereto;
b. ensure that plans & programs of the GAD-IAC members are reflected in
their performance evaluation reports, their targets and accomplishments;
c. ensure that GAD plans & programs of other agencies operating within the
municipality are consolidated in the Annual Development Plan;
d. prepare the Annual GAD reports to be submitted to the NEDA for
monitoring & evaluation which could be the basis for other financial
funding and support;
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e. ensure that observance of the month of March as “Women and Children’s

Month be given importance and shall be celebrated to give important to
motivate women of their role in nation building.
53.4 The Secretariat of the GAD-IAC shall have the following functions:
a. document matters taken up in the GAD-IAC during seminars,
workshops and meetings; and
b. prepare and furnish the official minutes of meetings of the GAD-IAC
signed by the Presiding Officer.
53.5 For the purpose of institutionalizing the Gender and Development Inter-
Agency Committee, certain amount shall be appropriated and taken from the 20%
AIP of the municipality.
a. All formulated plans & programs on Gender Development approved by
the Local Chief executive including women and children will be
funded from the 20% Annual Development Fund pursuant to Section
12 Rule V of RA 7192;
b. In cases where some critical activities cannot be funded from the
regular budgets, concerned government department/agencies shall be
advised to source these from supplemental budgetary requests and or
seek financial assistance in both local & foreign.

Section 54. Creation of Municipal Local Councils of Women. The Municipal

Local Council of Women shall be organized in the municipality which shall be composed
of accredited women’s organizations existing in the municipality

Section 55. Organization of Differently Abled Women. The Municipal

Government through the Municipal Social Welfare Development Officer shall encourage
and support the organization of differently-abled women in the municipality to give focus
on and facilitate response to their special needs

Section 56. Organization of Elderly Women. The Municipal Government’s

Office of the Senior Citizen’s Affair shall encourage and support the organization of
elderly women in collaboration with the Municipal Senior Citizen’s Federation to give
special focus on and facilitate response to their special needs

Section 57. Women’s Summit. The municipal government through the

Municipal Local Council of Women shall hold and convene a Municipal Women’s
Summit at least once every year to renew women’s development in all aspects of
community life and make appropriate recommendations for actions thereon.

ARTICLE VII
SUPPORT SERVICES

Section 58. Support Programs to Survivors of Violence. The Municipal

Government of Balete shall provide immediate support services to survivors of violence.
Support services shall consist of the following but not limited to legal, medical,
psychosocial, shelter and other forms of support services. These services shall be
provided by the Municipal Social and Development Office in coordination with the
Gender and Development Office and other involved agencies in accordance with the
provisions of the Implementing Rules and Regulations of this Code.

Section 59. Psychological Program. Women and children who are survivors of
all forms of violence shall be registered in psychosocial programs which shall be carried
out by the Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office, Municipal Gender and
Development Office, Municipal Health Office, and other related agencies as provided in
Implementing Rules and Regulations of the Code.
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Section 60. Survivors’ Support Group. There shall be an organized group to

whom survivors of violence voluntarily agrees to establish a professional helping process.
All investigations/hearing involving rape cases and other forms of violence against
women and children conducted in the police stations, prosecutors office and trial courts
shall recognize and allow the survivors’ support group to be present in the courtroom as
observers and to provide moral support to the survivors who are subject of litigation as
expressly allowed or requested by the offended party to the extent allowed by existing
laws or the rules of court.

Section 61. Women’s and Children’s Desk (WCD’s). The Municipality shall
establish and maintain the women and children’s desks handled by women police officers
and duly trained GAD personnel. The municipal police station shall have a separate
WCD room.

Section 62. Role of Female Police Officer. Complaints of battering and other
forms of abuse against women and children shall be handled by female officers in the
local police who shall undergo special courses on handling cases affecting abused
women, and whose character and credibility do not violate the accepted ethical standards
in handling such cases.

Section 63. Crisis Intervention Center. A crisis intervention center is hereby

established to serve as a temporary shelter with appropriate support services for women
and children in crisis under the management and supervision of the Municipal Social
Welfare Development and Gender and Development Office.

Section 64. Support Services for Women in the Entertainment Industry. The
Municipal Government shall provide socio-economic support services for women in the
entertainment industry in its desire to concretely respond to their practical needs. The
MSWDO and the PESO shall make available alternate sources of income and livelihood
to women engaged in entertainment industry or places of amusement.

Section 65. Medical Routine Check-up. Medical routine check-up and

medicines if needed at socialized rates shall be afforded to women in the entertainment
industry and those engaged in places of amusement by the Municipal Health Office.

Section 66. Continuing Education against Sexual Harassment. To foster a

culture against sexual harassment, all government or private agencies and offices within
the jurisdiction of the Municipality shall conduct a continuing education against sexual
harassment. For this purpose the Municipal Social Council for Women and the Municipal
Labor-Management Council shall work together to ensure that:
66.1 At least one (1) activity designed to equip workers and employees with the
critical and practical knowledge on gender issues and concerns is conducted each
year in these offices/establishments or workplace.
66.2 The provisions of RA 7877 otherwise known as the Anti-Sexual Harassment
Law and other provisions of the Labor Code affecting women are faithfully
implemented, especially the formulation of the necessary policies and procedures
in resolving complaints for sexual harassment.
66.3 Tools for Assessment and Strategies against gender bias are designed and
established.

Section 67. Support and Development of Day Care Centers. The Municipal
Government of Balete shall ensure that day care centers are set-up in all barangays. Day
care centers existing in the barangays shall be responsive to the need of the community to
provide childcare assistance to parents in order that they may be able to engage in
economically productive activities. For this purpose, day care centers shall give priority
to children aged 3-4 years old.
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Section 68. Legal Education and Counseling. The Municipal Government shall:
68.1 Undertake legal education and training for community leaders, Barangay
officials and members of the Lupong Tagapamayapa on legal counseling and
arbitration to capacitate community workers to facilitate resolution of cases and
family conflicts at the barangay level in coordination with the Municipal Social
Welfare and Development Office and concerned government organization
(NGOs).
68.2 Undertake a special para-legal training on gender issues and related matters
for members of the Lupong Tagapamayapa for all barangays in the municipality
in partnership with the Liga Ng Mga Barangay and other non-government
organizations.

Section 69. Medico Legal Desk for Women. The Municipal Health Officer shall
create a medico legal desk for women to attend to women’s special medical needs.

Section 70. Support Fund for the Senior Citizens Affairs. The Municipal
Government shall allocate funds for livelihood assistance, routine physical check-up,
social group work programs and other appropriate socio-economic activities for the
senior citizens.

Section 71. Support to Persons in Detention. The rights of all detainees shall be
protected as follows:
71.1 Speedy trial of the cases shall be ensured by all concerned;
71.2 An appropriate program shall be designed to respond to their specific needs
and problems as detainees;
71.3 Separate structure, space for detention and rehabilitation for women and men
shall be established.

CHAPTER II
MISCELLANEOUS AND PENAL PROVISIONS

ARTICLE I
PROTECTION AGAINST VIOLENCE AND DISCRIMINATION OR ABUSE

Section 72. Sexual Abuse. Sexual abuse shall include but is not limited to the
following *:
72.1 When a man inserts or attempts to insert his penis into the mouth or anus of a
woman against her will or under any of the following situations, through force,
threat or intimidation by means of abuse of authority or relationship when the
offended party is deprived of reason or otherwise unconscious.
72.2 When an offended party is below 12 years old even though none of the above
circumstances is present;
72.3 When a person inserts or attempt to insert part of his or her body other than
the sexual organ or introduces any object or instrument into the genital or anus of
a woman against her will or under any of the situations stated in paragraph
number 1 above.
72.4 When a person subjects another to have sexual intercourse with an animal
under any of the circumstances stated in the paragraph or through any abnormal,
unusual or ignominious sexual act.
72.5 Any intentional contact however slight of one’s penis to the genital, mouth,
breast or anus of a woman or intentional contact thereof, however slight, to any
part of her body other than her sexual organ, or the use of any instrument or
object which intentionally touches the genital, breast or anus of a woman.
72.6 Sexual Abuse in intimate marital relations. Forced sexual act committed
under intimate or marital relations shall form part of sexual abuse such as those
between man and woman, woman and woman, man and man relations married or
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unmarried legally separated or separated in fact. Any person found guilty of the
commission of this act shall suffer the penalty of imprisonment for a period of not
less than 6 month and a fine of 2,500 or both at the discretion of the court.

Section 73. Physical Violence. Any intentional act that causes physical harm or
hurt to the victim.

Section 74 . Psychological/Emotional Violence. Any intentional act that offered

or cause harm or hurt-in the feelings of the victim such as but not limited to the
following:
74.1 Threats of suicide if the victim will not give in to the demands of the
offender;
74.2 Threats of harm against the victim of her family;
74.3 Punching, breaking or defacing or otherwise destroying the house or any part
thereof or the personal belongings of the victims.
74.4 Threatening to kidnap the children or to take them to a foreign country
74.5 Threatening to take the victim’s children away
74.6 Threatening deportation of the victim with foreign citizenship
74.7 Forcing the victim to do things he/she considers as dehumanizing or
degrading.
74.8 Controlling the victims lawful or usual activities
74.9 Use of fault and insulting words, language, or statement against a woman
74.10 Threats of abandonment and expression such as forcing the woman to leave
the conjugal dwelling
74.11 Shouting invectives against the victims and other forms of verbal abuse.

Section 75. Economic Violence. This includes depriving the victim of economic
resources or their generation and mobilization so as to create forced dependence and
submissiveness to the offender.

Section 76. Battering. This refers to a series of sexual physical

psychological/emotional or economic abuse constituting a repeated cyclic pattern as
means of intimidation and imposition of the batterer’s will and control over another.

Section 77. Domestic Violence and Sex Trafficking. Any of the acts defined
under sections 72 to 76 above shall constitute domestic violence when the offender or
perpetrator is a member of the family of the victim or offender party within the fourth
civil degree of consanguinity or affinity; provided, however that in case the violence
committed is between persons living as husband and wife, parent and child or between
persons with common child/children whether living together or not, the violence
committed shall be deemed as domestic violence regardless of the legitimacy of the
relationship between them.
77.1 Sex Trafficking in Women. It is unlawful for any person, association cult,
religion or similar activities to commit the following acts: *
a. establish or carry on a business for the purpose of exploiting women for
purposes of sex, sex slavery, sex trade, sex tours and other immoral activities.
b. Advertise, publish, print or distribute or cause the advertisement, publication,
printing or distribution of any brochure, flyer or propaganda material
calculated to promote the above mentioned prohibited acts.
c. Solicit, enlist or attract/endorse any woman to join any club, association or
organization whose objective is to match women for marriage to foreigners
either on mail to order basis or through personal introduction or cyberspace or
any other forms which facilitate the commission of the following acts:
1. to buy or sell a woman, or any of her body parts.
2. to act as a procure of a sex worker
3. to threaten or force a woman to become a mail order bride
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Section 78. Solicitation. It is unlawful for any person to solicit a woman’s service
for sexual purposes regardless of whether the solicitor profits or not from such acts.
Penalty for the commission of these acts shall be dependent to the prevailing laws and
regulations.

Section 79. Other forms of Trafficking in Women. Any person or agency who
encourages, influences or recruits for work abroad or locally for a particular job on a
promise of a fee instead, forced and deceived to engage in prostitution domestic help or
other odd jobs shall be penalized by an imprisonment of 4 months or a fine of 2,500.00 or
both, at the discretion of the court. Persons liable thereof, may also be prosecuted and
penalized in accordance with RA 6955, an act which outlaws the practice of matching
Filipinos for marriage to foreign nationals on mail order basis.

Section 80. Sexual Harassment. Other than the acts defined as constitutive of sexual
harassment under RA 7877, the following shall constitute sexual harassment punishable
under this ordinance, some of which are covered by the Revised Penal code under acts of
Lasciviousness.
80.1 Persistent telling of offensive jokes or other analogous statements despite
having been previously requested to refrain from doing so;
80.2 Taunting a person with constant talk about sex and sexual innuendoes;
80.3 Displaying offensive or loud pictures and publications in the workplace;
80.4 Interrogating someone about their sexual activities or private life except on
physical or examination purposes;
80.5 Making offensive hand or body gestures at someone;
80.6 Repeatedly asking for dates despite verbal rejection
80.7 Staring or leering maliciously;
80.8 Touching, pinching or brushing up against someone’s body unnecessarily or
deliberately;
80.9 Kissing of embracing someone against her will;
80.10 Requesting sexual favors in exchange for a good grade obtaining a good job,
promotion;
80.11 Cursing, whistling, or calling a woman in public with words having dirty
connotations or implications which ridicules humiliates or embarrasses the woman,
such as “puta”, “peste”, “puñita”, etc.
80.12 Any other unnecessary acts during physical examinations;
80.13 Requiring a woman to wear suggestive or provocative attire during
interviews, such as on job hiring, promotions.

Commission of one of these acts shall be subjected to an imprisonment of one week or

a fine of P1,000.00 to P2,000.00 or both at the discretion of the Court as prescribed in RA
7879 otherwise known as Anti-Sexual Harassment Act.

Section 81. Other Prohibited Acts. The following acts are hereby declared
prohibited:
81.1 Pornographic Pictures and Publication. Printing, publication, display in any
place openly accessible to children or distribution of visual materials where women
appears scantily clad or otherwise depicting women as sex objects;
81.2 Indecent Shows. Public staging of indecent shows or shows offensive to the
sensibilities of the public or tends to corrupt the morality of the youth.

Section 82. Commoditization of Women. Any activity or form of beauty contest

which tends to commoditize, abuse, humiliate or treat women as sex objects shall be
strictly prohibited within the territorial jurisdiction of the Municipality of Balete. For this
purpose, the staging of beauty contests shall be permitted if it showcases not only the
physical beauty of a person but also her talents and abilities. For this purpose, the
Municipal Councils for the Protection of Women and Children are hereby mandated to
jointly draw up and promulgate the guidelines that shall be adhered to in the conduct of
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staging or shows, on beauty contests involving women and children. Organizers of beauty
contests violating these provisions shall be subject to a penalty such as the following:
a. For business organizations – cancellation of business permit or a fine of not less
than P1,000.00 but not more than P2,500 or as prescribe in the implementing rules
and regulations.
b. For representatives of agencies, departments or local government units –
suspension for one month without pay or a fine of not less than P1,000.00 but not
more than P2,000.00 or others as maybe prescribed in implementing rules and
c. For educational institution, charity or welfare organizations - a fine as maybe
prescribed in the implementing rules and regulations.

Section 83. Forced Marriage. No woman shall be forced to marry without her
consent. Any person committing fraudulent or coercive acts to effect a forced marriage
shall be held liable under this code by imprisonment of six months and a fine of
P1,000.00 or both at the discretion of the court. However, the customs and traditions of
the indigenous people shall be taken into consideration and duly respected.

Section 84. Husband and Wife Battering. Husband and wife battering shall be
punishable from one month to one year imprisonment or a fine of P1,000.00 to P2,000.00
or both subject to the discretion of the court. Other forms of battering as defined in this
code shall be covered by the same penalty.

Section 85. Fund Raising Initiatives. Fund raising initiatives refers to any
activity whether in whole or in part, integrated in any raffle draw, benefit or disco dance
or any similar fund raising undertaking where women are used as donor prize, substitute
for cash prizes won, a companion package for an award, prize or recognition or any
manner, activity come-on display or exhibit which depicts a woman as central, partial or
special focus in order to raise funds. Violations of this provision as defined in this code
shall cover the same penalty prescribed in Section (81-3) or subject to the discretion of
the court.

ARTICLE II
LABOR & EMPLOYMENT

Section 86. Equal Access to Job Training and Promotion. No woman shall be
deprived of job training and promotion on account of her gender, age, ethnicity, cruel
religion and cruel status. Violation by private employers shall constitute a fine of
P2,500.00 and cancellation of business permit or as prescribed by the Court. A
government unit or agency head of office that violates this provision shall be held liable
through a penalty of one month suspension or a fine of P1,000.00 or as prescribed by the
prevailing rules and regulation.

Section 87. Wage Benefits for Women. Employers shall comply with the
minimum wage requirement as stipulated by the Regional Wage Board or passed by the
Congress and shall grant all the benefits to all women employees as maternity leave,
retirement, termination and other benefits provided by law. Violation of this provisions
by private employers shall constitute a fine of P2,500.00 and cancellation of business
permit or as prescribed by the court. A government unit or agency head of office that
violates this provision shall be held liable through a penalty of one month suspension or a
fine of P1,000.00 or as prescribed by the Court.

Section 87. Facilities and Support System for Women. The Municipal
Government of Balete shall ensure the safety and health of women employees in
appropriate cases as defined in this code. Violation by private employers shall constitute
a fine of P2,500.00 and a cancellation of business permits or as prescribed by the court. A
government unit or head of office that violates this provisions shall be held liable through
a penalty of one month suspension and a fine of P1,000.00.
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Section 88. Reproductive Health Services. Establishments within the

municipality of Balete as well as Labor intensive establishment shall provide access to
reproductive health services to workers regardless of sex and civil status as a
manifestation of concerned for women’s role in social production. Cancellation of
business permit or license to operate shall be recommended for imposition by the LGU
concerned and or a fine of P2,500.00 shall constitute the penalty for violation of this
provision.

Section 89. Orientation on Sexual Harassment. All local offices, agencies and
establishments or companies both in government and private, within the Municipality
shall conduct orientations on sexual harassment. Failure to comply with this provision
shall mean payment of a fine of not more than P2,500.00.

Section 90. Gender-Sensitive Physical Plan. A physical plan appropriate for

gender sensitivity shall be adopted by all offices, agencies and establishment which shall
help prevent sexual harassment in the workplace. Failure to comply with this provision
shall constitute a fine of P2,500 and suspension of business permit or license for three
months.

ARTICLE III
WOMEN IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY

Section 91. Workers in Entertainment Industry. Women in the entertainment

industry shall be recognized as wage earners, and they shall receive minimum wages and
benefits afforded to workers and shall render services only in the place of work as
specified in the business permit of the establishment concerned. Violators shall be
subjected to a fine of P2,500.00 or cancellation of business permit or both at the
discretion of the court.

ARTICLE IV
HEALTH RIGHT

Section 92. Socialized Reproductive Health Services for all Hospitals. No

hospital in the Municipality of Balete shall deny a woman, living below the poverty line,
of reproductive health services. Certificates of Indigency shall be issued by the Barangay
Captain. In case of emergency, a social worker or any authorized personnel shall be
designated to conduct a rapid appraisal of the socio-economic status of the patient for
admission purposes. Non compliance to the administration of this provision shall be
penalized by a fine of not more than P2,500.00.

ARTICLE V
SOCIO ECONOMIC BENEFIT FOR WOMEN

Section 90. Banks, Financial Institution and Cooperative Support System. All
banks, financial institutions and cooperatives are encouraged to open special windows for
lending to women including young women who lack access to traditional sources of
collateral. This process ensures and protects the economic rights of women.

ARTICLE VI
SPECIAL GROUP OF PERSONS

Section 91. Municipal Local Sanction on Cases of Harassment Committed

Against Differently-Abled Persons. The Municipal Government shall formulate
sanctions on cases of harassment committed against differently-abled persons.

ARTICLE VII
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WOMEN AND CHILDREN

Section 92. Support to Women and Children. All governments or settlements

envisioned at the barangay level relative to the support of children shall be final and
executory. Violation of such agreements or settlements shall be subjected to a fine of
P2,000.00

ARTICLE VIII
PROMOTION OF ENVIRONMENT FRIENDLY TECHNOLOGIES

Section 93. No government agency shall act as an agent of agricultural chemicals.

Chemicals allowed are only those duly authorized by Herbicides and Pesticides
Authority. An administrative sanction shall be imposed on head of agencies found
violating this provision.

ARTICLE IX

Section 94. Gender and Development Orientation Training. All schools, office
establishment or companies, department and agencies including Municipal and Barangay
officials shall initiate gender sensitivity orientation and training which shall equip them
with theoretical and practical knowledge on gender issues and concerns. Likewise,
schools, colleges and universities shall develop assessment tools for gender-bias. Non-
compliance of this provision shall require the concerned party to pay a fine of P2,000 and
issuance of warming by the Municipality through the Gender and Development Council.

ARTICLE X
PROVISIONS FOR IMPLEMENTATION

Section 95. Creation of Gender and Development Desk. The GAD Desk shall
be created by virtue of this ordinance which shall be under the Special Project Division of
the Municipal Planning and Development Office. The GAD Desk shall be responsible for
the implementation of this ordinance in close coordination with the Gender and
Development Inter-agency Committee, a consultative assembly on the Municipal GAD
Program.

Section 96. Composition of the Municipal Gender and Development Desk.

The GAD Desk shall be composed of three personnel coming from the Municipal
Planning and Development Office under the Special Project Division.

Section 97. Functions of GAD Desk. The GAD Desk shall act as the lead
convenor and Secretariat to the GAD-IAC. For this purpose, it shall:
a. Coordinate with different NGAs, PGAs, LGUs and private sector
b. Provide administrative and technical assistance to the GAD-IAC
c. Mobilize various sectors for gender programs and projects
d. Design capability building programs in relation to GAD
e. Conduct advocacy program and trainings in relation to GAD
f. Provide assistance to women and children in especially difficult circumstance
g. Evaluate and monitor the GAD program of the municipality

Section 98. Rules and Regulations. The GAD-IAC shall promulgate the rules
and regulations to carry out the provisions of this ordinance. It shall be convened
periodically throughout the formulation of the Implementing Rules and Regulations
(IRR). Official representatives of the various agencies of the Municipal Government and
women NGO’s involved in the process of drafting of this Code shall be involved in the
formulation of the IRR. A Technical Working Committee shall be formed for effective
and efficient formulation of the Implementing Rules and Regulations. Such rules and
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regulations shall take effect upon their publication in two local newspapers of general
circulation.

Section 99. Funding. For the effective implementation of this ordinance, the
Municipal Government shall appropriate the amount necessary from the Special
Development Assistance as stipulated in RA 7192. It shall also appropriate five (5%)
from its Annual Development Fund. GAD Desk Coordinator GAD Monitoring Officer
Clerk

CHAPTER III
FINAL PROVISIONS

Section 100. Repealing Clause. All ordinances, resolutions, circulars,

memoranda, or rules, rules and regulations inconsistent with the provisions of this Code
are hereby repealed and modified accordingly.

Section 101. Separability Clause. If for any reason, any portion or provision of
this Code is declared unconstitutional or invalid, the other sections or provisions hereof
which are not affected thereby shall continue to be in full force and effect.

Section 102. Supplementary Clause. On matters not provided for in this Code,
any existing applicable laws and their corresponding Implementing Rules, Executive
Orders and relevant issuances issued therefore shall apply in a supplemental manner.

Section 103. Effectivity Clause. This code shall take effect upon compliance of
the mandatory posting and publication requirement prescribed under RA 7l60 otherwise
known as the Local Government Code of 1991.

Enacted: March 9, 2006.

Voting on the foregoing is as follows:
AYES: Hon’s. Evelyn V. Villanueva, Roman R. Villaruel, Cipriano L. Lachica,
Inocentes F. Bantigue, Jr., Elvis S. Requiro, Peter C. Recidoro, Paulino P. Balleza, Jr.,
Manuel V. Cuaterno and Elda B. Felipe.
NAYS: None
ABSTAINED: None
I HEREBY CERTIFY to the correctness of the foregoing ordinance.

(SGD)
AL F. DE LA CRUZ
Secretary to the Sanggunian

ATTESTED:
(SGD)
RIZAL G. RODRIGUEZ, JR.
Vice Mayor/Acting Presiding Officer

APPROVED:
(SGD)
TEODORO V. CALIZO, JR.
Municipal Mayor
Date of Approval: March 21, 2006