Basic GAD Orientation

FOR RGADC REGION 02

JULY 10-12, 2019
STA. ANA , CAGAYAN
 Why are we here?
Review concept of sex, gender, gender characteristics,
gender roles and other key gender and development
(GAD) concepts.

Commit to the use of gender as perspective and

analytic lens in professional practice.
 Difference between Sex and Gender
 Definition of Sex Roles and Gender Roles
 Manifestations of Gender Bias
 Roles of Socializing Institutions
 Understanding Gender Based Violence
 Roles of development workers and government
employees
 Ways Forward
 SCOPE OF GENDER
SENSITIVITY TRAING (GST)
PERCEPTION CHECK
Poverty has the same effect on men
and women.
 The man has the right to make all the
right decisions for the family, where he
is also the breadwinner, and the
women take care of the household.
 The family planning is a sole
responsibility of the women because
they are the ones who get pregnant.
 If the family cannot support the
education of all children, it is right to
prioritize the education of the sons
since daughters will be married off to
other men.
 The Government should formulate
separate programs for men and women
because of their different needs.
 Housework does not contribute to
family welfare because it is unpaid.
Men are better decision makers than
women.
 Housework does not contribute to
family welfare because it is unpaid.
Men are better decision makers than
women.
A husband has the right to demand sex
from his wife anytime he likes.
All laws are generally fair to both
women and men.
Educating women makes them better
mothers and wives.
Difference between Sex and Gender

“Sex”
 Biological differences between
women and men; and
 Permanent and universal.

“Gender”
 Social relations between women
and men;
 Relationship between women and
men, girls and boys,
 Socially constructed; and
 Dynamic and change over time.
 Gender Identity

• person’s deeply‐felt, inherent sense

of being a boy, a man, or male; a
girl, a woman, or female;
• Since gender identity is internal, a
person’s gender identity is not
necessarily visible to others.

DOST - Gender and Development Kit

 Gender Expression

The way in which a person

shows gender identity,
typically through their
appearance, dress and
behavior.

DOST - Gender and Development Kit

Sex Roles

 General set of expectations

attached to being a man /
woman.

 Unchangeable as only men

can produce sperm just as only
women can give birth and
breastfeed children.
Gender Roles

 Learned behaviours in a
given society/community,
or other special group,
that condition which
activities and
responsibilities are
perceived as male and
female.
Gender Roles

 Changeable.

“Women can do traditionally

male jobs and men can take
good care of children”.
Gender Roles

CAN BE LIMITING AND UNDERMINING CAPACITIES OR

POTENTIAL BOTH MEN AND WOMEN.
 GENDER ROLES
MALE and FEMALE
Productive Role
Reproductive Role
Community Role
Roles of Socializing
Institutions
How is this system/process perpetuated?

Through the process of Socialization

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SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS

Religion
Manifestations of
Gender Bias
 Manifestations of Gender Bias

Pushing a particular Act of giving someone or

group of people to the something less importance
edge of society or power.

Women tend to work

Preconceived ideas longer and more
fragmented days than
men

VAW is deemed to be closely linked with the unequal power

relationship between women and men
 Gender-based Violence (GBV)

Unequal power
relationships Any harmful act
GBV involves based on that is
the abuse of socially perpetrated
power. ascribed against a
gender person’s will.
differences.

Often used interchangeably with the term

“Violence against women”
 Gender-based Violence (GVB)

Are we experiencing an Are we an abusive partner?

abusive relationship?
• Gets jealous easily even
• Sometimes feel afraid of
without reason?
your partner?
• Always want to know
• Often change your social where your partner has
engagements because of been and she has been
your partner? doing?

• Spend more time thinking • Threaten to hurt him or

of what your partner the children if you don’t
wants than what you do? comply?
What are Gender Issues?
Issues and problems, Inequalities, gaps
and differences between women and
men arising from their distinct roles and
relationships

Deterrents to development

Often overlooked in the

development process
The GAD Approach
GAD is about being faithful to the principle
that……

Fairness and equity demands that

everyone in society, whether male of
female, has the right to the same
opportunities to achieve a full and
satisfying life. 2
Why GO for Gender and Development?
 As government employees, we need to recognize
that because of their different roles, women and men
have different needs to develop their potentials:

Strategic
Gender
Practical Needs
Gender
Needs
……AND DELIBERATELY ADDRESSES
THESE NEEDS……

In the processes of developing,

budgeting, implementing,
monitoring and evaluating
programs, projects and services,
particularly government agencies.

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 Why Us?
We are mandated by international
treaties/commitments, laws and
policies.

We are custodians of peoples’ trust

and resources. We have the capacity,
knowledge, skills, and resources to make
development work for everybody.
Where do we go from here?
What can you do?
Maraming Salamat!
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