Gender and Development

THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF MUNICIPALITY OF MONTALBAN, RIZAL

Department Head: Ms. Sherill C. Emmerson

Department Email: GA*@mo**************.com

Mission Statement

– Commitment to institutionalize the mainstreaming of GAD advocacy in the development process and ensuring the facilitation of activities that highlights the importance of gender equality, not only as a fundamental human right, but also as essential to poverty reduction and improved living standards, sustainable economic growth, and effective and accountable governance.

Vision Statement

– A community where women, men, girl-boy children and persons with disabilities enjoy equal rights, opportunities and a high quality of life.

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 reflected in development choices and contends that women are active agents of development, not just passive recipients of development.

GAD focuses on Gender Mainstreaming or a strategy for:

making women’s as well as men’s concerns and experiences an integral dimension of the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of policies, programs and projects in all social, political, civil, and economic spheres so that women and men benefit equally.
assessing the implications for women and men of any planned action, including legislation, policies or programs in all areas and at all levels