On March 29, 2019, during the 164^th Regular Board of Regents (BOR) meeting, the Board approved the creation of the Institute for Gender and Development. It was formerly under the Institute for Human and Social Development as one of its center , Center for Human Rights and Gender Studies. On 2020, it was renamed into Research Institue for Gender and Development, and on 2021 was changed into Gender and Development Office.

GADO has the following duties and responsibilities: a) formulates plans and programs towards the development of curricula in human rights education; b) establishes and maintains linkages with national and international organizations and educational institutions engaged in similar activities to facilitate research; c) assists in the development of curricula and training of faculty and students; d) develop training programs to prepare faculty members to handle courses in human rights education; and, e) conducts researches to enrich and update human rights program related to education curricula.

The Center for Gender Studies aims to bring together researchers including faculty, admin and students across the University who are working and/or interested in Gender and Development (GAD). The center intends to establish sex-disaggregated data with gender analysis in order to produce gender-responsive policies, programs, and activities of the University. Through research and public events, we aim to understand better and discuss key challenges involving different gender issues. The center aspires to empower the PUP community with the help of knowledge about GAD.

The Center shall: a) leads the production, presentation, and publication of gender and women and studies; b) recommends gender-responsive policies, programs, and activities of the University as an output of research; c) evaluates research proposals for funding by the University and external institutions; d) creates guidelines for research proposals production, committee review, and approval; e) collaborates with other key offices to establish links with other institutions outside the university; f) conducts research seminars and other capability training for faculty and students in the university and its branches and campuses; and, g) supports the University’s teaching and non-teaching personnel in training programs and activities that enhance skills and consciousness-raising toward a more humane, just and gender-fair community.

The Center strives for Gender Equality through conducting Gender Responsive Activity. The Center for Gender Training and Advocacy (CGTA) is responsible for seminars, capacity-building workshops, and trainings including advocacy activities that are focused with the organization (teaching and non-teaching personnel) and its clients (students and industry partners in extension projects) promoting GAD through gender mainstreaming. The center is also open for collaboration with other Universities, LGU, and NGOs in mainstreaming gender and development.

Specifically, the center has the following duties and responsibilities: a) organizes seminars, capacity building workshops, and trainings including advocacy activities that are focused on the organization (teaching and non-teaching personnel) and its clients (students and industry partners in extension projects) promoting GAD through gender mainstreaming; b) manages the coordination with and provision of technical assistance to other sectors of the university on conducting gender-responsive program and activities; c) influences the gender-responsiveness of sectoral mechanisms, frameworks, tools, and policies; d) coordinates and conducts GAD capacity development sessions, e.g., GFPS Assemblies, GAD Plans & Budget Forum a, partnership-building in training delivery, etc; e) coordinates work with the human resource development office on the development and implementation of an appropriate capacity development program on gender equality and women’s empowerment for its employees based on the university GAD mandate and approved GAD plans and activities; f) collaborates with other units of the University or external partners with LGU and NGOs in mainstreaming gender and development; and, g) develops and updates modules and tools for GAD-related capacity building programs of PUP and mainstreaming the GAD perspective in various training programs.

The PUP GAD Focal Point System (GFPS) is responsible for preparing and supervising the University GAD Plan and Budget (GPB) and GAD Accomplishment Report (GAD AR) to be submitted to the Philippine Commission on Women. The Center for GAD Focal Point System (CGFPS) is mainly responsible in coordinating with colleges, branches, and University offices in implementing the GPB. CGPB under the supervision of RIGAD Director is also responsible in training the PUP GFPS for the maintenance and improvement of GAD mechanism in the University. CGFPS is also responsible in preparing Audit Observation Memo (AOM) with the help of responsible offices if any.

Specifically, the center has the following duties and responsibilities: a) coordinates with the GFPS especially in the preparation, consolidation, and submission of PUP GAD Plan and Budget; b) formulates agency GAD plans, programs, and budget based on the university GAD mandate and approved GAD plans and activities; c) reviews and monitors the gender-responsiveness of sectoral agency development plans, including gender and development plans, and consolidate sectoral inputs and perspectives in the overall monitoring and reporting responsibility of PUP; d) monitors the implementation of GAD-related programs, activities, and projects of different colleges, branches, campuses and suggest corrective measures to improve implementation of GAD Projects and GFPS activities, if necessary; e) prepares and consolidates agency GAD accomplishment reports and other related reports as required by the university and the national government; f) keeps all records and documents of the GAD Focal Point and the Committees; and, g) creates and monitors the different responsible committees of the GFPS.