What Is Gender and Development?: Analysis

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What is Gender and Development?

      Philippine Commission on Women defined Gender and Development as the


development perspective and process that is participatory and empowering, equitable,
sustainable, free from violence, respectful of human rights, supportive of self-
determination and actualization of human potentials.

How Gender and Development started?

        Gender and Development was developed in the 1980’s as an alternative to the


Women in Development (WID) approach.

        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.

-Gender role focus on social construction of identities within the household, it


also reveals the expectations from ‘maleness and femaleness’ in their relative access to
resources.

-Social relations analysis exposes the social dimensions of hierarchical power


relations imbedded in social institutions; also it’s determining influence on ‘the relative
position of men and women in society. In an attempt to create gender equality, GAD
policies aim to redefine traditional gender role expectations.

Gender and Development in Philippines

       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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