What is Gender and Development (GAD)?
Gender and Development (GAD) is a development perspective that recognizes the unequal status and situation of women and men in society. It is participatory, empowering, equitable, sustainable, free from violence, respectful of human rights, and supportive of self-determination and the actualization of human potentials.
Gender Mainstreaming refers to the strategy of making the concerns and experiences of women and men an integral dimension of the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of policies and programs in social, political, civil, and economic spheres so that women and men benefit equally.
Discrimination Against Women is any gender-based distinction, exclusion, or restriction that impairs or nullifies the recognition, enjoyment, or exercise by women of human rights and fundamental freedoms in political, economic, social, cultural, civil, or any other field.
Legal Bases
Here are some of the legal bases for the establishment of the CSU GAD office.
- Republic Act 9710, or the Magna Carta of Women, tasks agencies to formulate GAD programs and implement the utilization of at least five percent of total budget appropriations.
- Philippine Constitution, Article II Section 14: the State recognizes the role of women in nation-building and shall ensure the fundamental equality before the law of women and men.
- Republic Act 7192, or the Women in Development and Nation-building Act, promotes the integration of women as full and equal partners of men in development and nation-building.
- Gender and Development Accord of Philippine Higher Education Institutions with a declaration of commitment and partnership among public and private higher education institutions.