Ra 7192

Republic Act 7192
Women in Development and Nation Building Act

AN ACT PROMOTING THE INTEGRATION OF WOMEN AS FULL AND EQUAL PARTNERS OF MEN IN
DEVELOPMENT AND NATION BUILDING AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
Section 1. Title. This Act shall be cited as the "Women in Development and Nation Building Act."
Sec. 2. Declaration of Policy. The State recognizes the role of women in nation building and shall ensure the
fundamental equality before the law of women and men. The State shall provided women rights and opportunities equal to
that of men.
To attain the foregoing policy:
(1) A substantial portion of official development assistance funds received from foreign governments and multilateral
agencies and organizations shall be set aside and utilized by the agencies concerned to support programs and activities for
women;
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(2) All government departments shall ensure that women benefit equally and participate directly in the development
programs and projects of said department, specifically those funded under official foreign development assistance, to
ensure the full participation and involvement of women in the development process; and
(3) All government departments and agencies shall review and revise all their regulations, circulars, issuances and
procedures to remove gender bias therein.
Sec. 3. Responsible Agency. The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) shall primarily be
responsible for ensuring the participation of women as recipients in foreign aid, grants and loans. It shall determine and
recommend the amount to be allocated for the development activity involving women.
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Sec. 4. Mandate. The NEDA, with the assistance of the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women, shall
ensure that the different government departments, including its agencies and instrumentalities which, directly or indirectly,
affect the participation of women in national development and their integration therein:
(1) Formulate and prioritize rural or countryside development programs or projects, provide income and employment
opportunities to women in the rural areas and thus, prevent their heavy migration from rural to urban or foreign countries;
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(2) Include an assessment of the extent to which their programs and/or projects integrate women in the development
process and of the impact of said programs or projects on women, including their implications in enhancing the self-reliance
of women in improving their income;
(3) Ensure the active participation of women and women's organizations in the development programs and/or projects
including their involvement in the planning, design, implementation, management, monitoring and evaluation thereof;
(4) Collect sex-disaggregated data and include such data in its program/project paper, proposal or strategy;
(5) Ensure that programs and/or projects are designed so that the percentage of women who receive assistance is
approximately proportionate to either their traditional participation in the targeted activities or their proportion of the
population, whichever is higher. Otherwise, the following should be stated in the program/project paper, proposal or
strategy;
(a) The obstacle in achieving the goal;
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(b) The steps being taken to overcome those obstacles; and
(c) To the extent that steps are not being taken to overcome those obstacles, why they are not being taken.
(6) Assist women in activities that are of critical significance to their self-reliance and development.
Sec. 5. Equality in Capacity to Act. Women of legal age, regardless of civil status, shall have the capacity to act and
enter into contracts which shall in every respect be equal to that of men under similar circumstances.
In all contractual situations where married men have the capacity to act, married women shall have equal rights.
To this end:
(1) Women shall have the capacity to borrow and obtain loans and execute security and credit arrangement under the
same conditions as men;
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(2) Women shall have equal access to all government and private sector programs granting agricultural credit, loans and
non-material resources and shall enjoy equal treatment in agrarian reform and land resettlement programs;
(3) Women shall have equal rights to act as incorporators and enter into insurance contracts; and
(4) Married women shall have rights equal to those of married men in applying for passport, secure visas and other travel
documents, without need to secure the consent of their spouses.
In all other similar contractual relations, women shall enjoy equal rights and shall have the capacity to act which shall in
every respect be equal to those of men under similar circumstances.
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Sec. 6. Equal Membership in Clubs. Women shall enjoy equal access to membership in all social, civic and
recreational clubs, committees, associations and similar other organizations devoted to public purpose. They shall be
entitled to the same rights and privileges accorded to their spouses if they belong to the same organization.
Sec. 7. Admission to Military Schools. Any provision of the law to the contrary notwithstanding, consistent with the
needs of the services, women shall be accorded equal opportunities for appointment, admission, training, graduation and
commissioning in all military or similar schools of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police not
later than the fourth academic year following the approval of this Act in accordance with the standards required for men
except for those minimum essential adjustments required by physiological differences between sexes.
Sec. 8. Voluntary Pag-IBIG, GSIS and SSS Coverage. Married persons who devote full time to managing the
household and family affairs shall, upon the working spouse's consent, be entitled to voluntary Pag-IBIG (Pagtutulungan
Ikaw, Bangko, Industriya at Gobyerno), Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) or Social Security System (SSS)
coverage to the extent of one-half (1/2) of the salary and compensation of the working spouse. The contributions due
thereon shall be deducted from the salary of the working spouse.
The GSIS or the SSS, as the case may be, shall issue rules and regulations necessary to effectively implement the
provisions of this section.
Sec. 9. Implementing Rules. The NEDA, in consultation with the different government agencies concerned, shall issue
rules and regulations as may be necessary for the effective implementation of Sections 2, 3 and 4, of this Act within six (6)
months from its effectivity.
Sec. 10. Compliance Report. Within six (6) months from the effectivity of this Act and every six (6) months thereafter,
all government departments, including its agencies and instrumentalities, shall submit a report to Congress on their
compliance with this Act.
Sec. 11. Separability Clause. If for any reason any section or provision of this Act 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.
Sec. 12. Repealing Clause. The provisions of Republic Act No. 386, otherwise known as the Civil Code of the
Philippines, as amended, and of Executive Order No. 209, otherwise known as the Family Code of the Philippines, and all
laws, decrees, executive orders, proclamations, rules and regulations, or parts thereof, inconsistent herewith are hereby
repealed.
Sec. 13. Effectivity Clause. The rights of women and all the provisions of this Act shall take effect immediately upon its
publication in the Official Gazette or in two (2) newspapers of general circulation.

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