than displaces local knowledge and practices. This means equipping CSOs and sectoral groups with policy tools—such as gender analysis frameworks, participatory budgeting methods and monitoring instruments—that amplify their voices in formal governance processes while validating Indigenous and other local expertise and lived experiences. Furthermore, existing volunteer programs should be assessed as forms of civic labor, accompanied by appropriate salaries and employment benefits such as insurance. Many volunteer roles at the barangay level are occupied by women who are already burdened with unpaid care responsibilities and limited economic resources; recognizing these positions as paid labor is essential to ensure their financial security and dignity. Recognizing civic labor and co-creating capacity development transforms participation from symbolic consultation into redistributive practice, ensuring that gender-just governance is sustained by equitable contributions and that marginalized groups can engage in decision making on fair and empowered terms. 7.9. Intersectional Gender Data Collection To design and evaluate responsive governance, data must capture the plurality of women’s experiences across intersecting identities. Disaggregated data should extend beyond binary sex categories to include age, sexuality, disability status, indigeneity and class. Without such granularity, policy reproduces invisibility: Indigenous women, women with disabilities and LGBTQIA+ people are rendered absent in official statistics, and thus in public priorities. Intersectional data collection provides the empirical foundation for gender-just governance, enabling policymakers to understand differentiated vulnerabilities and target resources accordingly. These policy pathways establish a system of participatory transparency and accountability in which projects are co­created, implemented and assessed through inclusive, community-led structures. Upward Agenda Setting ensures that governance priorities emerge from the lived realities of marginalized groups, while Horizontal Accountability guarantees that these priorities are monitored, reported and adjusted through ongoing, shared knowledge and evaluation. In this way, gender-just governance becomes not a rhetorical commitment but a redistributive practice of shared power and responsibility. 5 Evaluation and Reporting Co-creating IDIME that measure lived conditions than merely metrics 1 Identification and Agenda Setting Community-based agenda setting, moving from invited spaces to mini-publics 4 Monitoring and Auditing Participatory auditing Gender-Responsive Analysis Intersectional Data Redistribution of Care 2 Design and Budgeting Open and participatory budget, resources tracked impact 3 Implementation Shared ownership, localised hiring, recognition of civic labour Claiming Power and Reshaping Governance: A Feminist Framework for the Philippines 23