Why Do We Advocate

Gender and Development?

Session Objectives

At the end of the session, the participants will be able to:

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• Explain why there is a need to advocate for Gender and Development;
• Enumerate different legal instruments for the promotion of GAD; and
• Identify the historical events that led to the concept of GAD.

GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT

COMPLIANCE

COMMITMENT

OBLIGATION

COMPLIANCE

COMMITMENT

OBLIGATION

COMPLIANCE

The government should have a GAD Program to which at least 5% of an agency’s total budget should be allotted

General Appropriations Act (GAA)

An example would be the 2021 GAA of Agency X which amounts to around Php 130 Billion, computing for the 5% means that the Agency X should have a budget of around Php 7.3 Billion.

GENDER SENSITIVITY TRAINING

GAD ANALYSIS

GAD FOCAL SYSTEM

GAD PLANNING AND BUDGETTING

COA AOM (AUDIT OBSERVATION MEMORANDUM)

GAD PLANNING AND BUDGETING

COMPLIANCE

COMMITMENT

OBLIGATION

BPFA

CEDAW

INTERNATIONAL COMMITMENT

NATIONAL COMMITMENT

PHILIPPINE CONSTITUTION

MAGNA CARTA OF WOMEN

PHILIPPINE DEV’T PLAN

SDG

INTERNATIONAL COMMITMENTS

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

CEDAW

Otherwise known as the International Bill of Rights of Women

As of February 2015, it has 188 State Parties that agreed to implement the provisions of the treaty

CEDAW

The Convention provides the basis for realizing equality between women and men through ensuring women's equal access to, and equal opportunities in, political and public life -- including the right to vote and to stand for election -- as well as education, health and employment. States parties agree to take all appropriate measures, including legislation and temporary special measures, so that women can enjoy all their human rights and fundamental freedoms.

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

SDG 5 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

SDG 5 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

SDG 5 Targets

Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, April 6) — As millions of Filipinos are ordered to stay home to stop the spread of coronavirus, several rights groups warned against the likely rise in domestic violence and child abuse cases at home.

The who experience physical, psychological, and sexual abuse are trapped inside the homes they share with their abusers.

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BPFA

Gender Mainstreaming was explicitly endorsed as a strategy to ensure that a gender perspective is reflected in all policies and programmes at the national, regional, and international levels, so that, before decisions are taken, an analysis is made on the effects to women and men, respectively

Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA)

Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, April 6) — As millions of Filipinos are ordered to stay home to stop the spread of coronavirus, several rights groups warned against the likely rise in domestic violence and child abuse cases at home.

The who experience physical, psychological, and sexual abuse are trapped inside the homes they share with their abusers.

CHR: Dignity of all

BPFA

NATIONAL COMMITMENTS

1987 PHILIPPINE CONSTITUTION

Article II Sec. 14

“The State recognizes the role of women in nation building and shall promote the FUNDAMENTAL EQUALITY before the law of women and men.”

MAGNA CARTA OF WOMEN

Republic Act 9710

Establishes the Philippine government’s pledge of commitment to the CEDAW

It is the local translation of the provisions of the CEDAW, particularly in defining gender discrimination, state obligations, substantive equality, and temporary special measures

Women in Development and Nation Building Act

Republic Act 7192

Sec. 2 (2). All government departments shall ensure that women benefit equally and participate directly in the development programs and projects of said department to ensure the full participation and involvement of women in the development process.

Women in Development and Nation Building Act

Republic Act 7192

Sec. 4 (3). Ensure the active participation of women and women’s organizations in the development programs and/or projects including their involvement in the planning, design, implementation, management, monitoring and evaluation thereof.

Philippine Plan for Gender-Responsive Development

1. All government agencies, departments, bureaus, offices, and instrumentalities, including government-owned and –controlled corporations, at the national, subnational and local levels, are directed:

Philippine Plan for Gender-Responsive Development

1.2 To institutionalize Gender and Development (GAD) efforts in government by incorporating GAD concerns, as spelled out in the Plan, in their planning, programming and budgeting processes, but more specifically to:

1.2.2 Incorporate and reflect GAD concerns in their annual agency budget proposals and work and financial plans.

3 PILLARS

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• MALASAKIT or enhancing social fabric
• PAGBABAGO or inequality reducing transformation
• PATULOY NA PAG-UNLAD or increasing growth potential

COMPLIANCE

COMMITMENT

OBLIGATION

Gender and Development is an OBLIGATION of the government.

• Good governance;
• Inclusive growth;
• Quality, equitable, culture-based, and complete

basic education; and gender equality.

Development that is national and has a government that advocates

DEVELOPMENT

Aims at the fulfillment of three (3) basic human needs:

• The ability to provide for basic necessities;
• The ability to become persons with identity, dignity and self-worth; and
• The ability to exercise freedom and responsibility.

Thus, GAD is a 'Human Rights-Based Approach' because it empowers people to know and claim their rights and increasing the ability and accountability of individuals and institutions who are responsible for respecting, protecting and fulfilling rights.

Is GAD intended only for women?

GAD Journey

WID

• Emerged in the early 1970s
• Made demands for women’s inclusion in the social structure and economic development

WAD

• Emerged in the late 1970s
• It believed  that neither men nor women were benefitting from development due to class inequalities and the unequal distribution of wealth

GAD

• Emerged in the 1980s
• It focuses on the social or gender relations (i.e. division of labour) between men and women in society and emphasises the productive and reproductive roles of women. 
• It goes beyond seeing development as mainly economic well-being, but also the social and mental well-being of the individual.

KEY LEARNING POINTS:

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• Development is communal, therefore not individualistic. Thus, development should be felt by all, whether male, female, and other status.

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• In making development happen, government employees as duty bearers are enjoined to use GAD as an approach and a practice perspective from program identification, to implementation, to monitoring and development.

KEY LEARNING POINTS:

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3. GAD is “everywhere” as development has to be inclusive.

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4. As government employees, everyone should make a conscious effort that government monies (5% GAD budget) are allocated for programs, activities, projects, and services that are gender responsive. This way, every centavo of the taxpayers money is used wisely and responsibly.

Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, April 6) — As millions of Filipinos are ordered to stay home to stop the spread of coronavirus, several rights groups warned against the likely rise in domestic violence and child abuse cases at home.

The who experience physical, psychological, and sexual abuse are trapped inside the homes they share with their abusers.

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