Gender Mainstreaming Flashcards
promotes equality in all fields; affirmative action for women; and protection of women from violence
UN-CEDAW
calls for actions on 12 areas of concern affecting women and girl-children;
Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA)
Gender Equality & Empowerment of Women
Millenium Development Goals 3
universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity.
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), known as the Global Goals
“The State recognizes the role of women in nation building and shall ensure the fundamental equality before the law of women and men.”;
Sec 14, Art II, 1987 Philippine Constitution
promotes the integration of women as full and equal partners of men in development and nation building;
RA 7192, Women in Development and Nation Building Act
directs local government units to formulate a GAD plan, the cost of which shall not be less than 5% of their yearly budget
General Appropriations Act (GAA)
Gender Mainstreaming as a strategy to implement the MCW
Magna Carta of Women (MCW)- RA 9710
interrelated set of dominant ideas (views about gender roles promoted by culture); development directions; resource allocation
Mainstream
A strategy to ensure that the concerns for gender equality is considered in the mainstream
GAD Mainstreaming
Recognizes the imbalance in the status of women and men
GAD Perspective
Programs, projects and activities
Development
Planning
Organization policies and work environments
Institutional
Development
Development planning cycle
planning, programming and budgeting, implementation, monitoring and evaluation
Raise people’s awareness on gender
Foundation Formation
Put in place the key people, necessary policies, support structures, systems and mechanisms to facilitate and sustain gender mainstreaming
Installation of strategic mechanisms
Integrate and consolidate gender efforts to produce intended or desired impact on women
GAD Application
Implement continuous monitoring, evaluation and improvement of gender mainstreaming efforts
Commitment enhancement and institutionalization
Institutionalized GAD programs are replicated in other organizations (agencies and LGUs)
Replication and Innovation
Official statements in support for GM, e.g., E.O.s, memoranda, specific guidelines
Policy
with power to legitimize change
Sponsor
actually making the change, eg. Focal points
Change agent
people in the bureaucracy, field workers, clients
Target
wants to achieve change but lacks power to sanction it
Advocate
