Philippine Commission on Women

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# Philippine Commission on Women
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## A look at the budget, 2018-2026
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.date[
### July 2026
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## Executive summary

- **PCW's budget has roughly doubled.** OSEC GAA grew from PHP 111.8M (2018) to a proposed PHP 204.9M (2026), with the biggest jumps in **FY 2024 (+PHP 47M year-on-year)** and a **+PHP 29M Congressional add in FY 2026**.
- **The 2026 Congressional add went entirely to one line.** The +PHP 29M lifted Technical Assistance and Capacity-Building on GAD from a PHP 36M NEP to a PHP 65M GAA -- now the agency's largest single P/A/P.
- **Five long-running operational lines carry the core mandate.** Technical Assistance, GAD Policy and Plan Development, Planning and Monitoring of Gender Mainstreaming under the Magna Carta of Women, the GAD Data Bank, and General Management have been continuous since FY 2018. Most other lines are one-off Congressional inserts.
- **Absorption is mid-band and weakening recently.** Aggregate D/A averaged 80% across 2018-2024, then dropped to **75% in FY 2025** -- driven by a MOOE absorption of only 67% as MOOE allotments doubled to PHP 112M.
- **Congress regularly inserts one-off "Tier 2" lines.** Capacity-Building VAWC Responders, Handog kay Juana, PCW-NMFO Mindanao Field Office, Document Management System, and Multimedia Bank System have all appeared as single-year P/A/Ps -- the GAD policy agenda is partly shaped through ad-hoc Congressional initiative.
- **The 2021 dip** (D/A 68%) was a one-year event tied to weak MOOE and CO execution; the agency recovered to 91% D/A by 2023.

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## A few notes on the data

- **Period:** FY 2018 through FY 2026 NEP/GAA. Execution data (Allotments, Obligations, Disbursements) is available at the P/A/P level for every year FY 2018-2025; FY 2026 reflects NEP/GAA only.
- **Scope:** Philippine Commission on Women (formally still the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women in the budget code).
- **Departmental classification:** PCW was carried under "Other Executive Offices (OEOs)" through FY 2018 and reclassified under the **Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG)** from FY 2019 onward. The same long-running P/A/Ps appear twice in the workbook -- once per departmental wrapper. These have been aggregated here for a continuous PCW series.
- **Expense classes:** PS (Personnel Services), MOOE (Maintenance & Other Operating Expenses), CO (Capital Outlays).
- **Scale:** PCW operates at the MILLION-peso scale (compare: line departments are in the BILLION-peso scale). All charts and tables on this deck are formatted in millions.
- **Absorptive capacity denominator:** Adjusted Allotments (AdjAllot).

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## Big picture: the budget has roughly doubled

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## Big picture: a few takeaways

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   <th style="text-align:left;"> PHP M </th>
   <th style="text-align:right;"> 2018 </th>
   <th style="text-align:right;"> 2019 </th>
   <th style="text-align:right;"> 2020 </th>
   <th style="text-align:right;"> 2021 </th>
   <th style="text-align:right;"> 2022 </th>
   <th style="text-align:right;"> 2023 </th>
   <th style="text-align:right;"> 2024 </th>
   <th style="text-align:right;"> 2025 </th>
   <th style="text-align:right;"> 2026 </th>
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 </thead>
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  <tr>
   <td style="text-align:left;"> NEP </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 91.8 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 111.5 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 106.9 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 107.6 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 109.0 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 109.0 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 147.5 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 175.9 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 175.9 </td>
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   <td style="text-align:left;"> GAA </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 111.8 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 131.2 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 106.9 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 137.6 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 124.0 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 140.3 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 170.8 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 175.9 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 204.9 </td>
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   <td style="text-align:left;"> Adj. Allotment </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 111.8 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 125.9 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 103.0 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 136.5 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 109.0 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 140.3 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 170.8 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 175.9 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;">  </td>
  </tr>
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   <td style="text-align:left;"> Obligations </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 102.0 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 118.8 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 92.1 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 100.0 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 99.9 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 133.0 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 149.0 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 144.2 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;">  </td>
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   <td style="text-align:left;"> Disbursements </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 87.5 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 112.2 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 83.1 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 93.4 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 87.8 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 127.4 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 137.2 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;"> 131.1 </td>
   <td style="text-align:right;">  </td>
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- **The enacted GAA has exceeded the Executive's NEP in seven of nine years.** The exceptions are FY 2020 and FY 2025 (no augmentation).
- **The FY 2024 jump (+PHP 38M GAA YoY)** marked the largest structural budget increase in the period -- not a one-off insert.
- **Disbursements track allotments at 75-91%.** The PHP 35-45M residual gap recurs each year; the 2025 gap of PHP 45M (D/A 75%) is the widest in three years.

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## Where the money goes (by PREXC program)

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## Composition by Expense Class

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## The P/A/Ps in the FY 2026 budget

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## Where Congress adjusts the PCW budget

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- **Four of the top five add lines are core operational programs** receiving steady year-on-year augmentations.
- **The "Continuation of the PCW-NMFO Mindanao Field Office" (+PHP 15.5M)** appeared as a single FY 2023 Congressional insert -- a one-year boost for a regional pilot office that was not in the Executive's NEP.
- **The three PHP 5M one-offs** in 2022 (Capacity Building VAWC Responders, Handog kay Juana, Capacity Building Women Entrepreneurs) are typical Tier-2 Congressional inserts -- specific GAD priorities funded outside the Executive's regular budget plan.
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## Absorptive capacity: aggregate

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## Absorption by Expense Class

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## Strongest absorbers (FY 2025)

The strongest absorbers are the agency's policy/advocacy and infrastructure lines. **GAD Policy and Plan Development (88% D/A on PHP 22M allotment)** and the **ICT Network Infrastructure (87% D/A)** lead the table. General Management at 78% is solid for an admin line.

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## Weakest absorbers (FY 2025)

**The two largest operational lines absorb the weakest:** Technical Assistance at 64% D/A and Planning/Monitoring of Magna Carta of Women at 62%. Both show **strong D/O ratios (83%)** but lower **O/A ratios (75-77%)** -- the agency obligates a smaller share of allotments on these lines, perhaps reflecting capacity constraints in deploying field operations.

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## Trajectories of the five long-running operational lines

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## For discussion

- **1. The Technical Assistance plus-up in FY 2026.** Congress added PHP 29M to lift this line from PHP 36M (NEP) to PHP 65M (GAA), making it the agency's largest P/A/P. With FY 2025 D/A on this line at only 64%, can the agency absorb the doubled scale -- and what specific capacity-building activities does the augmentation target?

- **2. The MOOE absorption gap.** MOOE allotments grew from PHP 52M (2022) to PHP 112M (2025) -- more than doubling -- but disbursed at only 67%. The agency is being given more MOOE than it can spend. Is this a procurement bottleneck, staffing constraint, or program-design issue?

- **3. The Tier-2 insert pattern.** Roughly half of PCW's P/A/Ps over the period are one-off Congressional inserts (Handog kay Juana, VAWC Responders capacity-building, PCW-NMFO Mindanao Field Office, Document Management System, Multimedia Bank). Are these strengthening the GAD agenda, or fragmenting it into ad-hoc initiatives that disappear with the budget cycle?

- **4. The departmental reclassification.** PCW moved from "Other Executive Offices" to DILG between FY 2018 and FY 2019 with no clear public rationale. Has this strengthened gender mainstreaming across LGUs, or has it placed a gender-policy agency inside a public-order department in tension with its mandate?

- **5. The PHP 205M ceiling.** Compared to the social and economic mandate enumerated in the Magna Carta of Women, is PHP 205M an adequate operational budget for the lead national agency on gender mainstreaming -- particularly given that DILG (its parent department) operates with a budget more than 200x larger?

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# Thank you

### Philippine Commission on Women
#### Budget evolution and absorptive capacity, 2018-2026

.footnote[Underlying data: DBM-published budget execution data for the PCW (Current New Appropriations only), FY 2018-2026. PCW reclassified from "Other Executive Offices" to DILG starting FY 2019.]