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CDM 202 - M3, Lesson 3 - Part2 - VER2

The document discusses the history and importance of gender and development (GAD) as a strategy and approach in the Philippines. It outlines how GAD seeks to transform development to be sensitive to gender issues and influence all areas of planning, budgeting, implementation and evaluation. It also discusses how GAD has been implemented through the gender mainstreaming strategy and policies like the GAD budget policy and Executive Order 273. Finally, it discusses gender-responsive development planning and the use of a GAD checklist to ensure plans address key gender issues and concerns.

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CDM 202 - M3, Lesson 3 - Part2 - VER2

The document discusses the history and importance of gender and development (GAD) as a strategy and approach in the Philippines. It outlines how GAD seeks to transform development to be sensitive to gender issues and influence all areas of planning, budgeting, implementation and evaluation. It also discusses how GAD has been implemented through the gender mainstreaming strategy and policies like the GAD budget policy and Executive Order 273. Finally, it discusses gender-responsive development planning and the use of a GAD checklist to ensure plans address key gender issues and concerns.

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In the Philippines, there are pertinent laws on gender and development as a development strategy.

Let us read about these laws:

Historical Approaches to Gender and Development

What are the main trends in the way women’s issues have been conceptualized in the context of
development over the past decades ? Let us look at the presentation of the The Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH or GIZ. The GIZ is a German development
agency that provides services in the field of international development cooperation .

GAD as a Development Goal

GAD seeks to transform the way government pursues


development so that it can respond effectively and with
sensitivity to issues confronting women. The GAD
perspective recognizes that gender concerns cut across all
areas of development and therefore should not be
overlooked in the development planning process. Indeed,
The National gender must influence government when it plans, budgets Commission on
the Role of for, implements, monitors and evaluates policies, programs Filipino Women
(NCRFW) and and projects for development the Canadian
International Development
Agency(CIDA) (2008) said
that:
Women’s equality and empowerment is Goal 5 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, but also
integral to all dimensions of inclusive and sustainable development. In short, all the SDGs depend on
the achievement of Goal 5. Only by ensuring the rights of women and girls across all the goals will we
get to justice and inclusion, economies that work for all, and sustaining our shared environment now
and for future generations

SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Targets

 End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere.

 Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres,
including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation.

 Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital
mutilation.

 Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public
services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared
responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate.

 Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all
levels of decision making in political, economic and public life.

 Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed
in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population
and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their
review conferences.

 Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to
ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance
and natural resources, in accordance with national laws.

 Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications


technology, to promote the empowerment of women.

 Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of
gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels.
 To know more about this, watch this YOU TUBE video from the United Nations Development
Program:Video: The facts about gender equality and the Sustainable Development Goals

Now that you know more about GAD’s history and its importance in the achievement of development
goals, let us go into a brief discussion of GAD as a development paradigm or approach.

GAD as a Development Paradigm or Approach

According to NCRFW , GAD is a development paradigm or approach that recognizes gender


inequality and the disadvantaged status of women as shown by male dominance over social and
economic resources. It is concerned with the social construction of gender and its impact on the lives
of women and men, although it focuses more on women’s role in development and how their lives
are affected by it.

How is this approach translated from theory to practice? This is done through the gender
mainstreaming strategy.

What is the gender mainstreaming strategy?

In what ways has this been practiced in the Philippines?

The GAD budget policy (Section 27) of the Annual G.A.A. mandates all government agencies to
allocate at least 5% of their total budget for gender concerns. Executive Order 273 institutionalizes
GAD concerns in the development planning process. This is also seen in the Annual National Budget
Call and the guidelines on GAD planning and budgeting and corresponding Joint Circulars issued by
DBM, NCRFW, NEDA or DILG.
Let us look at gender responsive development planning.

Gender-responsive development planning means mainstreaming gender considerations in the


planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and actions for
development. This is imperative because, among other reasons, affirmative action programs have to
be developed and implemented to address gender inequalities and allow women to advance.

The GAD plan of an agency is a blueprint of how agencies could make themselves gender responsive.
It addresses gender issues and concerns of agencies and their constituents, and with appropriate
strategies, activities and monitoring and evaluation indicators

How does an agency make sure that its plan is gender responsive? To address this need. a gender
and development (GAD) checklist was developed to ensure development plans are not only aware of
or sensitive to gender issues faced by women and men, girls and boys, but also address key, relevant
gender-related issues or concerns.

The checklist is culled from the manual, “Mainstreaming Gender in Development Planning:
Framework and Guidelines.” Published by the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA),
the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women (NCRFW; now, the Philippine Commission on
Women, or PCW), and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA; now known simply as
Government of Canada) in 2002, the manual forms part of the Gender Mainstreaming Resource Kit
(GMRK).

Click the icon to view the checklist:

References:

NEDA. GAD Checklist for Development Planning

National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women (NCRFW) and the Canadian International
Development Agency(CIDA) (2008

APPLICATION

Answer the questionnaire on Attitudes toward gender roles. Compute your score and write a brief
insight on your results.

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