WESTERN MINDANAO STATE UNIVERSITY

Gender Mainstreaming
Initiatives in the Extension
Program and Services of
Western Mindanao State
University

WMSU Dr. Milabel Enriquez-Ho

President , WMSU

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Objective
• Share the WMSU experience
on Gender Mainstreaming
Initiatives in the Extension
Program and Services

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Extension Service Thrusts and
Priorities
The University shall pursue extension programs,
activities and projects (PAPs) that will enable institutions,
industries and communities, particularly the depressed and
underserved, to achieve sustainable development through:
Community Extension Services
A. Capability-Building Training Program
›Livelihood/Technical-Vocational/Skills Training
›Assessments and FS
B. Community Outreach Program
›Market Fair
›Caravan
›Social Welfare Response Project
›Self-Reliant and Economically Productive
Community
›Community Sports, Dances & Recreational
Activities
C. High-impact, long term Integrated Community-
based Development Program
›DepEd Equivalency Level
›School Youth for Literacy Program
 Gender and Development (GAD) Program
(Per R.A 9710)
A. Gender Mainstreaming as Institutional
Mechanism
B. Gender-responsive Planning and Budgeting
C. Gender Sensitivity Training
D. Gender Analysis

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Only Gender
Resource Center in
Western Mindanao
(PCW,2004) to
present)

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Department of Extension Services
and Community Development
1. . In-Campus Skills 2. Out-Campus Skills
Training Course Training
• Baking
• Basic Automotive Mechanics – Practical Electricity
• Basic Computer Repair
• Basic Electronics – Plumbing
• Beauty Care – Welding and
• Cooking and Food Processing
• Garment Technology Fabrication
• Hair Cutting/Styling – Ref and Aircon Repair
• Handicraft
• Needle Craft – Cooking
• Plumbing
• Practical Electricity
– Baking
• Ref and Aircon Repair – Needlecraft
• Basic Welding Fabrication
– Handicraft
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Two Decades of GAD Initiatives
➢ Special Order No. 142, dated November 1, 1997
established the Women’s Research and Resource
Center (WRRC) pursuant to RA No. 7192, or the
“Women in Development and Nation Building Act”
➢ In coordination with PCW, GRRC was established as
“Kasambohan” Gender Resource Center in 2004, one
of eight such centers in the Philippines
➢ In July 14, 2011, then President Dr. Grace J. Rebollos
issued SO No. 167 renaming WRRC to Gender
Research and Resource Center (GRRC) sharpening
its focus and expanding its efforts and initiatives

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The GAD Policy
of WMSU

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GAD Policy for Extension Program
Targeted two broad goals of GAD as set
forth in the Magna Carta of Women as
reiterated in CHED CMO-01s 2015:
A. Social Protection: policies and programs
that seek to reduce poverty and vulnerability
to risks; enhance the social status and rights
of people regardless of status, gender, race,
ethnicity and religion;

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• promote and protect livelihood and
employment; protect people against
hazards and sudden loss of income, and
improve people’s capacity to manage risks
(social, health, political natural). Its
components are labor-market programs,
social insurance, social welfare and social
safety nets; and
B. Appropriate Technology: suitable
technologies that comprise skills and
available materials in the locality and
address gender issues and concerns.
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▪ Develop, establish, and strengthen
programs for the participation of women,
LGBT and girl-children in competitive and
non-competitive sports as means to
achieve excellence, promote physical and
social well-being, eliminate gender-role
stereotyping, and provide equal access to
the full benefits of development for all
persons regardless of sex, gender, sexual
orientation and other similar factors.
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Our Gains…

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• Hub for Capacity Building &
Empowerment of People and
Communities
• Livelihood Training and Financial
Literacy
• Counseling, Psychosocial
Interventions and Referrals

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Other engagements
• Memorandum of Agreement relevant to
National Office on the Campaign Against
Human Trafficking
• Reaching Out to Distant/Remote Schools
for Advocacy
• Humanitarian Services for Natural and
Human - Made Disasters ( SIEGE 2013)

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Hub for Capacity Building &
Empowerment of People and
Communities
➢ LGUs, BLGUs
➢ NGAs (R9, ARMM, R11,12, R13 to name few)
➢ HEIs, and DepEd
➢ NGOs
➢ Cooperatives
➢ AFP and PNP
➢ Regional Hospitals
➢ UNICEF, ENGAGE, IOM

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GAD Community Extension to the AFP
LGU Zamboanga, NGAs, Academe
 DepEd, Mimaropa
Parents Educ COMELEC,ARRM

Akay Kalinga Center and the Akay

streetKalinga Center and the Street
children
Children with Dr. Carpizo
PEACE ,HUMAN SECURITY & GENDER PROGRAMS
AND ADVOCACY THRU THE OFFICE OF PHSI

Right to dialogue

Peace Education Course

( PHSI,WMSU)

Recovery & Reintegration of

child victim
Livelihood Training and Financial Literacy

Accessories

Dress making for

Housewives
Livelihood Trainings for Wives and Mothers
Men can bake and do fashion accessories too
Counseling, Psychosocial Interventions and Referrals
Conduct of series of lectures
on Adolescent Sexuality in
Tanglaw Safe House among
girls who were survivors of
trafficking

Psychosocial needs of vulnerable sectors

• MOA Signing between WMSU and POEA
on the Campaign Against Human
Trafficking ( Capacity –Building)
• In collaboration with Regional Interagency
Coalition for Anti Trafficking (RIACAT) in
Region 9
• 2015 -2017 – 88 children ( 8 to 17 years of
age) were rescued from human trafficking (
prostitution, child labor ) in ZAMPEN, ARMM
Reaching Out to Distant/Remote Schools
for Advocacy
Humanitarian Services or Natural and
and Person-Induced Disasters

YOLANDA SURVIVORS IN LEYTE

 In the aftermath of the
Zamboanga Siege, 2013

GYM AS TEMPORARY HOSPITAL Community kitchen

 WMSU as Hub for the
Operation of Relief Efforts
of DSWD

Packing goods for the IDPs

Conduct of forum on women empowerment

among women IDPs
Psychosocial support services for the IDPs in
Tulungatong Transitory site child -friendly space

Learning and Serving: WMSU Implementing Psychosocial and

Social Integration Programs for the Survivors of the Siege as
Extension Program of the College of Social Work and
Development
Challenges as we Move Forward
➢ More extension programs as an offshoot of
researches on gender and women studies that
are contextual and culturally sensitive
considering the cultural diversity of Mindanao
➢ sustained peace and order or peace-building
activities especially to those who need
services and are residing in far-flung
communities

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• Address security and promotion of the
general welfare of extensionists who are
exposed to danger while delivering services
in various communities particularly the
women and children
• A clearer view /definition of the roles of
women in a setting that is politically and
culturally-diversed.
WMSU will continue its mission to serve as
an instrument for the promotion of socio-
economic advancement of the various
cultural communities inhabiting therein that
is gender sensitive and gender responsive

“ Un Universad, Un Familia, Un Amor”

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Muchisimas Gracias…
Magsukul…
Sukran…
Daghan Salamat…

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