COMMENTS

  1. Gender and Development in Southern Philippines: Experiences on GAD

    Abstract. The Philippines is one of the early countries in Asia with strong advocacy for gender and sustainable development. As one of the signatory countries of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPA) and Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the Philippine government and its national women machinery, the National Commission on the Role of Filipino ...

  2. PDF An Overview of the Gender Situation in the Philippines

    Carlos Antonio Q. Anonuevo Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Philippine Office September 2000. The gender situation in the Philippines is characterized by sharp contradictions.It graphically showcases samples of women's advancement in politics, academic and professional excellence, and even legislation. But this is contrasted by images of prostituted ...

  3. PDF GENDER ANALYSIS (SUMMARY)1

    Gender and Development. Manila. supported increased access of poor and disadvantaged women to skills training through provision of 12,500 scholarship awards and loans to women.10. 11. ADB's program. Through the country partnership strategy, 2011-2016, ADB will make the following investments in gender equity in the Philippines. Sector.

  4. In the Philippines they think about gender differently. We could too

    It is an identity built on performative cultural practice more so than sexuality. Often considered a Filipino third gender, bakla can be either homosexual or heterosexual, and are regarded as one ...

  5. PDF Formulating the Gender and Development Agenda

    Philippine Development Plan (2017-2022)-Gender equality and empowerment of women and girls is integrated in the 12 of the 20 chapters of the Philippine Development Plan (PDP) 2017-2022. Gender Perspective is reflected in the strategic framework of each PDP chapter as well as the strategies to implement the. SDGs.

  6. Fast Facts: Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in the Philippines

    Gender equality is well advanced in the Philippines. The country scores well on international gender equality measures and indices, but more is needed to sustain the achievements and to overcome remaining challenges. Despite a favorable policy environment - the Philippines is signatory to international human rights instruments and has successfully enacted policies and laws for the protection ...

  7. PDF Gender, Migration and Development in the Philippines

    8 | Gender, Migration and Development in the Philippines - A Policy Paper where reports of abuses and exploitation by the media are no longer out of the ordinary. While these are valid and a cause for concern, this report takes on a different focus, for parallel to Filipino women's migration is the rise of

  8. Gender Mainstreaming

    Gender equality as the goal; gender mainstreaming as the strategy.1. Gender Mainstreaming or Gender and Development (GAD) mainstreaming is the major global strategy for ensuring that the government pursues gender equality in all aspects of the development process to achieve the vision of a gender-responsive society where women and men equally ...

  9. Exploring the Gender Perspective in English Language ...

    In recent years, gender mainstreaming in education has been discussed and studied. In the Philippines, however, research has tended to focus on extreme ends of the implementation process such as the awareness of educators about the gender perspective or the success in incorporating gender in their pedagogical practices, rather than an in-depth analysis on the overall experience of educators in ...

  10. Gender Snapshot: COVID-19 in the Philippines

    Women and girls in the Philippines are facing distinct challenges to their safety and well-being during COVID-19, such as access to healthcare services, gender-based violence and other human rights violations, and economic insecurity. While not all the impacts of COVID-19 are fully understood yet, it is evident that the gender and social ...

  11. (PDF) The Filipino male as macho-Machunurin: bringing men and

    Women and/or gender and development studies in the Philippines have already been analyzing transformations in gender relations and identities brought about by cultural, social, political and ...

  12. Violence against women in the Philippines: barriers to seeking support

    The Philippines is among one of the most gender-equal countries in the Western Pacific region. 1 Nevertheless, it is evident that the sociocultural landscape lags behind: one in four Filipino women has experienced gender-based violence, and 41% of victims do not seek help.2 Despite existing laws and a widespread local anti-violence against women (VAW) movement, multiple barriers to help ...

  13. (PDF) Gender, Migration and Development in the Philippines

    PDF | On Aug 1, 2015, Alvin P. Ang and others published Gender, Migration and Development in the Philippines | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

  14. SDG-5: Gender Equality-An Indigenous People's Perspective in the

    In this paper, I build on the indigenous perspective to argue that the SDG-5 of the. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which aims to 'achieve gender equality and empower. all women and girls ...

  15. PDF A 'Gender Turn' in Philosophical Discourses in the Philippines

    bibliography, and show the development of the philosophical gender discourses in the Philippines. Quitos bibliography is part of her report on the status of academic philosophy in the Philippines -- at least in the late 1970s to the early 1980s. It comprises 395 titles of accepted philosophy theses

  16. GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT

    The Magna Carta of Women (Republic Act No. 9710) defines Gender and Development Program (GAD) 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. It seeks to achieve gender equality as a fundamental value that should be ...

  17. The Gender and Development (GAD) Program

    The Magna Carta of Women (Republic Act No. 9710) defines Gender and Development Program (GAD) 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.

  18. Gender and development

    Gender and development is an interdisciplinary field of research and applied study that implements a feminist approach to understanding and addressing the disparate impact that economic development and globalization have on people based upon their location, gender, class background, and other socio-political identities. A strictly economic approach to development views a country's development ...

  19. The Philippine Army Gender and Development Towards Effective Quality

    The research concludes that the following programs were implemented as part of Gender and Development in the Philippine Army and the Arm Forces of the Philippines as a whole, as experienced and enumerated by the respondents: (1) intensified Gender and Development (GAD) programs to protect women during their recruitment, training, and service ...

  20. Reflection about Gender and Development

    Gender and development is crucial for the reason that it seeks to achieve gender equality as a primary value that should be reflected when it comes to development choices. It also uncovers the ways in which men and women can work together, equality when it comes to treatment in work and access to safe and healthy environment.

  21. PDF Laws and Policies on Gender and Development

    Adoption of the "Philippine Development Plan for Women for 1989 to 1992. EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 209: THE FAMILY CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES. July 6, 1987 Executive Order No. 209: The Family Code of the Philippines July 6, 1987 I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the

  22. Reflection Paper about Gender AND Development Mainstreaming

    Gender and Development Mainstreaming in a different facet not only as a woman; in integrating structural change in this kind of system we should also take into ac count the involvement of men because each gender deals with differe nt needs and struggle in gender inequalities.

  23. PDF The Filipino Male as "Macho Machunurin": Bringing ...

    For Kasarinlan. Kasarinlan Journal of Third World Issues, Vol 16, No. 1, 2001, pp. 9-30, published by the Third World Studies Centre, University of the Philippines.

  24. Philippines

    The Philippines joined the ILO on 15 June 1948. Since then, the ILO works closely with the government, workers' and employers' organizations and development partners to advance social justice and promote decent work. More about the ILO in the Philippines.

  25. Why and How Multilateral Development Banks Support Improved Outcomes

    Economic migrants and refugees can bring both benefits and costs to their hosting countries. If well-integrated, they can support themselves, their families, and their hosting countries as producers and consumers. Both economic migration and forced displacement are therefore integrally linked with development outcomes. Recognizing this, MDBs)are supporting their beneficiary member countries to ...

  26. From Virginia Key to the Philippines

    I developed an interactiveArcGIS StoryMaps Collection that highlighted the 24 research projects funded by NOAA's American Lobster Initiative. I gathered all the information about these 24 projects through interviewing the research teams, reviewing papers, proposals, and progress reports, and visiting project sites.