GAD corner sections
CSU Gender and Development promotes inclusive, equitable, and empowering programs for all stakeholders.
Tabs: Overview, GAD Focal Point System, Organizational Structure, CODI, MOVE, GAD Plan and Budget, GAD Accomplishment Report, GAD Agenda, Estado ni Juana Report, Sex Disaggregated Data, Gender Pay Gap Report.
What is Gender and Development (GAD)?
Gender and Development (GAD) is a development perspective that recognizes the unequal status and situation of women and men in society. It is participatory, empowering, equitable, sustainable, free from violence, respectful of human rights, and supportive of self-determination and the actualization of human potentials.
Gender Mainstreaming refers to the strategy of making the concerns and experiences of women and men an integral dimension of the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of policies and programs in social, political, civil, and economic spheres so that women and men benefit equally.
Discrimination Against Women is any gender-based distinction, exclusion, or restriction that impairs or nullifies the recognition, enjoyment, or exercise by women of human rights and fundamental freedoms in political, economic, social, cultural, civil, or any other field.
Photo of speaker at Committee on Decorum and Investigation Orientation and Re-orientation. Screen text reads 'Committee on Decorum and Investigation Orientation & Re-orientation'.
Legal Bases
- Republic Act 9710, or the Magna Carta of Women — Republic Act 9710, or the Magna Carta of Women, tasks agencies to formulate GAD programs and implement the utilization of at least five percent of total budget appropriations.
- Philippine Constitution, Article II Section 14 — Philippine Constitution, Article II Section 14: the State recognizes the role of women in nation-building and shall ensure the fundamental equality before the law of women and men.
- Republic Act 7192, or the Women in Development and Nation-building Act — Republic Act 7192, or the Women in Development and Nation-building Act, promotes the integration of women as full and equal partners of men in development and nation-building.
- Gender and Development Accord of Philippine Higher Education Institutions — Gender and Development Accord of Philippine Higher Education Institutions with a declaration of commitment and partnership among public and private higher education institutions.
IEC Materials
- →Use of Gender Fair Language
- →Magna Carta for Disabled Persons (RA 7277)
- →IPV and the Chronic Psychosocial Enormities on Battered Women: Basis for Primary Support Program and Advocacy Intervention
Poster titled 'What is the Safe Spaces Act or the Bawal Bastos Law' showing prohibited acts under gender-based street and public spaces sexual harassment and gender-based online sexual harassment, and where to report. Click an image to enlarge.

