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6. Strengthening advocacy and monitoring at the local government unit level, including advocacy for the use of gender-based indicators in local development planning processes. In 2007, the key priority was the membership building and organizational development as well as programme development and resource mobilization. The network has six working committees – (1) lobbying for equality law; (2) education and public advocacy on CEDAW and women’s human rights; (3) promotion of women’s right to information and freedom of choice; (4) enhancing monitoring mechanisms; (5) network expansion; and (6) formation of CEDAW Youth Committee. CEDAW Watch core group supported PILIPINA and the Study and Action Consultative Group on the campaign for the Magna Carta of Women, including serving as resource persons in legislative hearings in Congress and with local governments. It also developed campaign materials such as the brochure, membership form, and pins and put up its website (www.cedaw-watch.org). In terms of resource mobilization and advocacy with donors, it contributed to the programme formulation of the UN Joint Programme on Facilitating the Implementation of the CEDAW Concluding Comments. It is considered the NGO implementing partner of the UN Joint Programme, particularly for coaching and mentoring the UN programme staff on gender-responsive and rights-based approach in development programming. Considering that the CEDAW Watch secretariat is with WAGI - Miriam College, it naturally led to the formation of CEDAW Youth Committee consisting of students and young women, initially with Miriam College students but reaching out to more schools. Building the next generation of feminist activists and CEDAW Watch advocates is a formidable challenge that starts now. A youth workshop on Integrating CEDAW in Writing was held on December 12-13. They are producing a CEDAW Youth Literacy Packet that will be disseminated to campuses around the country. This literacy packet links CEDAW to young women’s issues using youth-friendly language. Another strategy is to go media-savvy. CEDAW Watch partnered with the mostread daily broadsheet newspaper, the Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI), in a Read Along Program on Domestic Violence for community children. This was published in PDI last December 6, 2008, entitled “Beauty Hits the Books” because it tapped a Miriam College alumna, former Ms. Universe and development advocate Margarita Moran to read development stories to children. CEDAW Watch also advocates to improve the gender analysis in the Philippine report to the MDGs. Hence it has drafted a policy brief for government planners and donors on integrating CEDAW in Philippine MDG reporting. It presents a supplemental MDG report from a gender perspective using data and gendersensitive indicators that were not present in the 2007 Philippine MDGs Mid-term Report. The draft report on Engendering the MDGs was presented to partners in November 26, 2007 on time for the March 2008 women’s month celebration. 114
NCRFW, for its part, had brought CEDAW in the annual International Women’s Day (IWD) national celebration. In the Philippines, the whole month of March is women’s month. Beginning in 2006, NCRFW used as slogan “CEDAW ng bayan” a play on words. The Filipino word sigaw, which means to shout, closely resembles the sound of CEDAW (Filipinos pronounce it as it is spelled). It loosely translates into “the whole country shouts for…” Add the theme or the government program for women for the year and it sounds like a demand for women’s rights. The CEDAW themes of the last three years were: 2006: CEDAW ng bayan: Karapatan ng kababaihan Women’s rights in general – The celebration aimed to raise public awareness on the provisions of the Women’s Convention. 2007: CEDAW ng bayan: Kabuhayan sa kababaihan Women’s livelihood and economic rights – The year’s celebration underscored the need for women to have equal access to economic opportunities and to address all forms of discrimination that limit their economic and political rights. 2008: CEDAW ng bayan: Yaman ng kababaihan Women’s funds – to promote the use of GAD budget to finance gender equality and women’s empowerment programmes at the national and local levels, specifically in addressing the CEDAW Committee’s Concluding Comments. For the CEDAW SEAP partners and implementers in the Philippines, discovering CEDAW and bringing its message to other women had been a challenging but fulfilling endeavor. First encounters with CEDAW often elicited surprise – “Why didn’t I hear about it before”; frustration – “We could have used this to fight for our rights 25 years ago!”; and finally relief to learn that there is such a treaty to protect them from discrimination. And on a higher level, organized women had taken on CEDAW as part of their advocacy for human rights. Through its many forays into various sectors – government, business, media, academe, youth and men – it is the journey with other women that made this campaign a matter of the heart. 115
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