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gather sex-disaggregated data on the situation of women, and to elect
more women into the city council.
Other GAD mainstreaming measures included the creation of the
Davao Medical Centre (DMC) and the inter-agency Violence Against
Women Council (VAWC). The DMC put up the Women and Children
Protection Unit (WCPU), a one-stop family crisis intervention center,
and the Birthing Home program to promote healthy pregnancy through
quality home-setting delivery. The VAWC signed a memorandum of
agreement with the city government to install a 24-hour hotline at the
women and children’s desk of the city’s police station.
Other institutions put up to address women issues were the Child
Minding Center, a day-care center for local employees; the Bathaluman
Crisis Center Foundation, which provides direct services to women
victims of violence; and the Womynet, an advisory center for rape, incest,
child abuse, and cases of violence against women.
At the barangay level, GAD mainstreaming took the form of the
Gender Sensitivity Training (GST) and Gender Policy Planning (GPP),
in which council members, health workers, nutrition scholars and purok
leaders from 37 barangays participated.
Women’s Summit, a consultative assembly of barangay women’s
organizations and sectoral organizations, is held annually to formulate a
women’s agenda.
The Women’s Code of Davao City
The late 1990s saw the flowering of gender and development
mainstreaming. In September 1997, the city council passed City
Ordinance 5004, or the Women Development Code, a landmark
legislation.
The code ensured, among others things, (a) the mainstreaming of
gender through legislation; (b) the revision of government policies,
regulations and programs to remove gender bias; (c) the allocation of
30% of official development assistance and 6% of the city’s annual
development fund to gender-responsive programs; and (d) the creation
of women’s councils at the district and barangay levels to compose the
Davao City Council for Women, which will serve as the consultative
assembly of the city mayor.
The following year, Mayor Benjamin de Guzman issued Executive
Order No. 24 approving the Code’s implementing rules and regulations
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