Unit 6: Staff and agencies working on gender issues
Selected agencies working on gender issues and the labour market
Philippines
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Bureau of Women and Young Workers
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Goals under the 1998 workplan of this organisation include intensification of gender mainstreaming, through;
It also plans to take up the needs of women migrant workers. |
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Employers' Confederation of the Philippines
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The ECOP Women's Committee has identified the following key result areas:
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Federation of Free Workers
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The FFW Women's network has the following goals for 1998:
It plans to conduct gender sensitivity and leadership training, form women's cooperatives in the TU and other sectors, and create a service center for migrant women workers. |
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Kanlungan Center Foundation, Inc.
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Kanlungan’s main function is to provide crisis intervention and other services to Filipino overseas contract workers and their families in distress. Such services include counselling, legal aid, airport and welfare assistance, information and advocacy, education and training, temporary shelter (women).
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National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women (NCRFW)
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The NCRFW is a government agency under the Office of the President. It advises the President and Cabinet in policy formulation and implementation for gender-responsive development, reviews and evaluates the extent of gender integration and gender equality in sectoral programs, and promotes fuller equality of men and women before the law. Its major programs include the establishment of gender focal points as an institutional mechanism for gender mainstreaming, training in gender and development, research and policy studies on issues such as violence against women, migration, prostitution, family, peace and the media, and development of a sex-disaggregated database on the Philippines. |
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PILIPINA-Women in Politics Institute (WPI)
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Scalabrini Migration Center (SMC)
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The SMC was set up in 1987 to encourage and facilitate the study of sociodemographic, economic, political, psychological, historical, legislative and religious aspects of human migration and refugee movements from and within Asia. Its research program has focused on the consequences of migration on family, solo parenting, intermarriages and pre-departure orientation for women workers.
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Sentro ng Manggagawang Pilipina (SENTRO)
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SENTRO is a policy research and resource centre for women migrant workers. It conducts research and policy studies, develops and conducts orientation and information modules on issues of gender and labour migration, and does networking and capacity building among workers’ groups, church groups, NGOs and public agencies. |
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Trade Union Congress of the Philippines
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The 1998 workplan of this agency has the objective of the full integration of women in trade union work. Planned activities include:
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University Center for Women’s Studies
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UCWS, created in 1990 in the College of Social Work and Community Development of UP, Diliman, conducts research, advocacy and outreach services for women. Its research program focuses on;
In 1994, UCWS launched a crisis counselling facility. UCWS’s publication program includes Pananaw, a quarterly newsletter, and the Review of Women's Studies, a scholarly journal publishing empirical studies, research reports, essays, interviews, feminist criticism, fiction, poetry and writings on women's art. The Center has a collection of research monographs and other print materials on women's studies. |
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Women’s Crisis Center
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Women’s Education, Development, Productivity and Research Organization, Inc. (WEDPRO)
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WEDPRO’s core issues deal with women’s human rights, with special attention to prostitution and trafficking, reproductive and sexual rights, microenterprise development and social investigation. It formulates and implements development programs to empower women through participatory, women-centred and gender-sensitive processes. WEDPRO also engages in action research, training and community-based education., and documents and disseminates its findings. Its computer database and information library on prostitution and trafficking is available to networks, organisations and individual users. |