Carmelita n. ericta biography

Held at the Luneta Hotel, Manila on September 27, 2019, 5 female and 1 male DOF GFPS representatives participated in the Seminar on Gender Statistics organized by the National Tax Research Center (NTRC).

This activity is part of the collaborative efforts to capacitate the GAD Focal Point System (GFPS) of the finance sector with Gender and Development (GAD).

DOF Director IV and GFPS Executive Committee Member, Alvin P.

Diaz provided a special message emphasizing the importance of the seminar which is to help improve the participants’ skills in data gathering, analysis, and how is gender statistics crucial in the conduct of evidence-based studies and researches in assessing gender gaps in all areas of life.

The Resource Speaker, Ms.

Carmelita N. Ericta who was a Former Administrator of the National Statistics Office (NSO) started the discussion on how gender issues vary in the productive and reproductive roles of women and men, their access and control to resou