WARAY-WARAY YOUTH ADVOCATES together with LGU CATBALOGAN,

CITY YOUTH DEVELOPMENT OFFICE and Gender and Development in

partnership with
YOUTH FOR PEACE PHILIPPINES CATBALOGAN CHAPTER
Catbalogan City

ACTIVITY PROPOSAL

Name of Activity:

Proponent: Waray-Waray Youth Advocates (WARAYA) and Youth for

Peace Philippines Catbalogan Chapter

Partners: LGU Catbalogan, Catbalogan City Youth Development

Office and Gender and Development

Participants: Womens of Catbalogan, Students and Community

Source of Fund: LGU Catbalogan, City Youth Development Office

(CYDO) and GAD

Cost: Php. 76,060.00

Venue: Catbalogan City

Proposed Date: March 1-31, 2017

Rationale:
The National Womens Month Celebration every March is
part of the worldwide observance of the International
Womens Day (IWD).
The following issuances serve as legal bases for the annual
activity:

Proclamation No. 224 s. 1988 declaring the first

week of March each year as Womens Week and
March 8 as Womens Rights and International Peace
Day;
Proclamation No. 227 s. 1988 providing for the
observance of the Month of March as Womens Role
in History Month; and
 Republic Act (RA) 6949 s. 1990 declaring March 8 of
every year as National Womens Day.

2017 THEME

In his first State of the Nation Address (SONA), President

Rodrigo Roa Duterte directed all agencies, oversight
bodies and local government units down to the barangay
level to fully implement the Magna Carta of Women." This
is to ensure that man and woman will be partners in the
pursuit of the countrys economic, social, cultural and
political developments. This pursuit of development under
the new administration is also anchored on the
commitment of Malasakit at Pagbabago or True
Compassion and Real Change. Thus, the first National
Womens Month Celebration under the new leadership will
focus on these key foundations: partnership for change and
full implementation of the Magna Carta of Women
(Republic Act 9710), captured through the theme: "WE
Make Change Work for Women."

Elements of the theme

WE stands for Women Empowerment empowering

women enables them to confidently and meaningfully
engage with appropriate institutions to ensure that they
contribute to and benefit from development and changes.
Thus, womens empowerment will make the change that
we are espousing or any development effort responsive of
womens concerns.

Make Change Work = MCW = Magna Carta of

Women making change work for women necessitates
strengthening the implementation of the MCW at all levels.
It means putting in place functional mechanisms as well as
implementing and making known to citizens, programs and
services that address strategic gender needs of women.

Change also means Compassionate and Harmonized

Actions and Networks for Gender Equality.

We / us or kami / tayo in Filipino who is going to

pave the way for an enabling environment for women to be
empowered? Who is going to ensure that the MCW is
implemented at all levels? Who is going to make change
 work for women? It all of us, in our various capacities
whether as government officials and employees, members
of the private sector, the academe, non-government
organizations, or as private individuals can be partners for
a change that is gender-responsive. It emphasizes our
collective effort, collaboration and participation to ensure
that women will not be left behind in the pursuit of change.
The theme emphasizes that women should be active
drivers in bringing about positive changes, and that they
should also reap from development efforts. This can be
made possible by empowering women enabling them to
meaningfully engage with other development stakeholders,
and by fully implementing the MCW.

OBJECTIVES
Consistent with Proclamation No. 227 s. 1988, the annual
conduct of the National Womens Month Celebration
(NWMC) aims to give due recognition to the contributions
of Filipino women in our society.

Specifically, 2017 celebration aims to:

1. inform and engage women as stakeholders of

government programs and services to promote citizen-
centric governance and make change a conscious effort
to know, understand, and provide what ALL citizens need;

2. create and facilitate platforms to discuss good

practices, gaps, challenges, and commitments in pursuing
gender and development (GAD) to strengthen
implementation of the Magna Carta of Women; and

3. inspire and empower women and girls to be

agents of change to contribute in promoting gender
equality and the empowerment of all women.

All agencies, local government units (LGUs) and other

instrumentalities of the government shall organize their
own activities and other initiatives that contribute in the
attainment of these objectives.i

Waray-Waray Youth Advocates and Youth for Peace

Philippines Catbalogan Chapter supports the Womens
Month Celebration 2017.
Activities:
 1. Production and Distribution of IEC Materials (March 2017)
Section 26 of the Magna Carta of Women (Right to Information) also
provides that Access to information regarding policies on women,
including programs, projects, and funding outlays that affect them, shall
be ensured. Interestingly, the Agenda Ni Juana Crowdsourcing survey
during the 2016 Womens Month show that the top 5 priority womens
agenda that people expect from the government is Improved
information dissemination on government programs and services for
realizing gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls
and their human rights (chosen among the top five priority of 3,297 out
of 8,005 survey participants).

In view of this mandate and the citizens expressed need for information,
government agencies and LGUs are encouraged to produce and
distribute their own information materials featuring their GAD programs
and services that can be accessed by women stakeholders. Under the
banner/theme WE Make Change Work for Women, agency/LGU IEC
materials shall respond to the following key points:
How does the agency/LGU make change work for women?
What are the programs and services that can be accessed by women
clients? Simplified steps/guide in accessing said programs and services.
Results or most recent data on accomplishments (to showcase how
citizens were able to benefit from the program).
2. Serbisyo Para kay Juana (March 8 or per discretion of sponsoring
agency) the activity enjoins agencies, LGUs and other organizations
that offer direct services and other transactions with the public to offer
treats like freebies, discounts, or distribution of IEC materials on March 8
which is the International Womens Day (IWD) and any chosen dates
within March, making the celebration more publicly known and felt.
3. CHANGE: Young People do make a difference Symposium of MCW
to schools
4. Online (Booth) Advocacy: #JuanaSays (March 1-31) first initiated
by PCW in 2015, Juana Says is a daily dose of inspirational quotes from
Filipino women from different fields or profession. Personalities who will
be invited to share their inspiring words include heads of government
agencies, private corporations/companies, celebrities and artists, women
from various sectors (e.g. rural, IP, Moro, youth, formal employment,
entrepreneurs), among others.

Name of Activity Flow of Activity Budget Requirements

Item Description Amount
1. Production A. Orientation A. Orientation
and Discuss Magna Carta Meal
Distribution for Women Lunch (35 pax x Php. 3,500.00
of IEC How to facilitate Ideas 100)
Materials Mapping Snacks [35 pax x Php. 3,500.00
 (March 2017) B. Session and Distribution 50 x 2 (AM and
Group Session and PM)] Php. 2,000.00
Distribution on every
booth Materials Php. 3,000.00
Distribution of flyers/
IEC on streets Honorarium for Php. 5,000.00
Speakers

IEC Materials (4K Php. 15,

copies) 000.00

Allowance for 1 month

of 30 pax for group
session and
distribution x Php. 500

2. Serbisyo A. Agreement with Materials

Para kay Business/ Certificates and Tokens Php. 5,000.00
Juana Establishments IEC (1K Copies) Php. 1,300.00
B. Campaigns Tarpaulins size 2 x 4 (25 Php. 3,600.00
C. EIC Distribution pcs)
3. CHANGE: Two days Symposium on MCW Meals
Young People for 4 Schools Lunch (10 Facis/ Php. 2,000.00
do make a Speakers x 100 x 2 days)
difference Snacks [10 Facis/ Php. 2,
Speakers x 50 x 2 (AM 000.00
and PM) x 2 days]
Honorarium
3 Speakers (Php. Php. 6,000.00
1,000.00 x 2 days)
7 Facilitators (Php. Php. 7,000.00
500.00 x 2 days)
4. Booth A. Group Session and IEC Materials
Advocacy: Distribution Tarpaulins size 2 x 4 (15 Php. 2,
#JuanaSays B. Post it #JuanaSays pcs) 160.00
(March 1-31)
15 Booth; includes IEC,
booth designs, post it Php. 15,
and snacks x Php. 000.00
1,000.00
TOTAL AMOUNT 76,060.00

RECOMMENDATION:
Considering the importance of this activity, the organizations behind this Womens Month
Celebration 2017 would like to ask the amount of Seventy Six Thousand and Sixty Pesos only
for the conduct of this proposed meeting is recommended for approval.

Prepared by:
ALBERT A. BARCOMA MARK BONS FERNANDEZ
President President
Waray-Waray Youth Advocates Youth for Peace Visayas
Wide

Noted:

DENNIS G. COSMOD
Coordinator
City Youth Development Office

Approved:

HON. STEPHANY UY-TAN

City Mayor
i http://www.pcw.gov.ph/WomenMakeChangePhilippine Commission on Women