GAD Mainstreaming Framework

In compliance with the Republic Act 9710 or the Magna Carta of Women (2009), and in alignment with Administrative Order No. 5 series of 2012 (as amended through AO 15 series of 2018), 4Ps employs gender mainstreaming as a process and strategy to achieve the twin goals of women empowerment and gender equality. To concretize, 4Ps will utilize GAD as a development approach and a practice perspective in its core processes, operational procedures, mechanisms, structures, people, and policies. 

As a development approach, 4Ps shall ensure that GAD will be integrated into the cycle of program development, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. As a practice perspective, it will seek out solutions to reduce if not ultimately eliminate the impediments to one’s capacity to fully participate, access, and benefit from the Program.

What is Gender Mainstreaming?

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 contribute to and benefit from development. (Philippine Commission on Women, 2021)

What is Gender and Development?

Gender and Development is a 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. (Philippine Commission on Women, 2021).