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fruits of development. This policy framework and rights-based approach may be embodiedin a Gender and Development Code.To further assist LGUs in mainstreaming gender concerns in LGU plans, programs andpolicies, the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women (NCFRW) developed toolsand guidebooks available from their website: http://www.ncrfw.gov.ph.NCRFW and partner government agencies published the following resources to help LGUsbuild capacities to mainstream gender and development:• Moving Forward with GAD, A Handbook on Gender and Development for theSanggunian Committee on Women and Family• Gender and Development: Making the Bureaucracy Gender-Responsive: ASourcebook for Advocates, Planners and Implementors, 1994.• Toward a Gender-Responsive Legislation, Volume 1, Basic Concepts and Volume 2,Basic Application, 1999.• GAD Planning and Budgeting, 2003.Similarly, LGSP published the following resources on gender and development:• <strong>Toolkit</strong> for Mainstreaming the Crosscutting <strong>The</strong>mes• Freedom From Fear: Establishing Quick Response Team for Violence AgainstWomen. A Guide for <strong>Local</strong> Governments, 2003.Environmental protectionDevelopment can be sustained if the resources in our environment are managed well so thatfuture generations can also benefit from them. <strong>Local</strong> legislation plays a key role inenvironmental protection as it lays the legal and policy framework for the management andprotection of environmental resources through policies, plans and programs on land use,forest resource, solid waste management, water management, marine resourcemanagement, and community participation in protecting the environment, among others.Existing national mandates such as the Philippine Agenda 21, the country’s blueprint forsustainable development, are best pursued by issuing parallel local policies and ordinances15