Abstract
Malaybalay city in the Philippines piloted a data-based system of local governance that is also useful as a tool for gender responsive budgeting. By collecting sex-disaggregated data about household membership, nutrition levels, education, income and other parameters of poverty, the system allows local government to identify gender issues and subsequently justify budgeting for social initiatives such as education, health and gender-sensitive livelihood training. The process of data gathering was also made gender sensitive and empowering by training the barangay health workers, many of them women, in collecting and processing the related information. Such an analysis allows us to ensure that budgets are not merely gender sensitive, but also accountable.
Herculano Ronolo, City Administrator, Malaybalay City, Philippines. Email: allanronolo_56@yahoo.com.
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The smallest political unit in the city, it is governed by a barangay captain and seven barangay councillors.
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Purok or sitio is a small village made up of 10–100 households and is part of a barangay. A barangay could have several puroks or sitios.
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As Honculada (2009: 99) noted: “The Malaybalay City LGU has scored many gains in the attempt to ‘genderize’, and ensure resultant impacts from, its yearly budgets. Staff, both executive and clerical, seek to translate gender concepts into their daily life and work. Civil society organizations, prodded on by women NGOs, earnestly engage in the planning and budgeting process”.
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Honculada, Jurgette, 2009: Gender in Good Governance: Examples of Local Innovations in Gender Responsive and Results Oriented Budgeting (Bangkok: UNIFEM).
NCRFW, 2006: Moving Forward with GAD: A Handbook on Gender and Development for the Sanggunian Committee on Women and Family (Manila, Philippines: UNICEF).
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Ronolo, H.S. (2016). Malaybalay City Integrated Survey System: A Tool for Gender Responsive Budgeting in Local Governance. In: Ng, C. (eds) Gender Responsive and Participatory Budgeting. SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace, vol 22. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24496-9_7
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