What Is Gender and Development?: Analysis
What Is Gender and Development?: Analysis
What Is Gender and Development?: Analysis
Unlike WID, the GAD approach is not concerned specifically with women, but with
the way in which a society assigns roles, responsibilities, and expectations to both men
and women.
GAD applies gender analysis to uncover the ways in which men and women work
together, presenting results in neutral terms of economics and competence.
GAD focus primarily on two major frameworks, Gender Roles and Social Relations
Analysis.
Philippine Plan for Gender and Development, 1995-2025, is a National Plan that
addresses, provides and pursues full equality and development for men and women.
Approved and adopted by former President Fidel V. Ramos as Executive No. 273, on
September 8, 1995, it is the successor of the Philippine Development Plan for Women,
1989-1992 adopted by Executive No. 348 of February 17, 1989.
Three years after, DENR Administrative Order No. 98 – 15 dated May 27, 1998
came up as the Revised Guidelines on the Implementation of Gender and Development
(GAD) Activities in the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in
order to strengthen the DENR GAD Focal Point System and accomplishing the GAD
vision “Partnership of Empowered Men and Women for Sustainable Development”.
Republic Act No. 9710, otherwise known as the Magna Carta of Women was
approved on August 14, 2009 which mandates non-discriminatory and pro-gender
equality and equity measures to enable women’s participation in the formulation,
implementation and evaluation of policies and plan for national, regional and local
development.
A Memorandum Circular No. 2011 – 01 dated October 21, 2011 was released
addressing to all Government Departments including their attached agencies, offices,
bureaus, State Universalities and Colleges (SUCs), Government-Owned and Controlled
Corporations (GOCCs) and all other government instrumentalities as their guidelines
and procedures for the establishment, strengthening and institutionalization of the GAD
Focal Point System (GFPS).
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