What is GAD?

GAD or General and Development is a development approach that seeks to equalize the status
and condition of and relations between women and men by influencing the processes and
outputs of policymaking, planning, budgeting, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation so
that they would deliberately address the gender issues and concerns affecting the full
development of women.

What are the pertinent laws anchored to GAD?

The Magna Carta of Women ( Republic Act no. 9710 )

- It defines gender and development program ( GAD) as the 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
potential.

The Gender Equality Law, 2011

- It seeks to eliminate discrimination in employment, training, and recruitment on the basis
of sex, marital status, pregnancy or gender and to promote the payment of equal
remuneration to male and female employees who perform work of equal value.

Women in Development and Nation Building Act ( Republic Act No. 7192)
- It promotes the integration of women as full and equal partners with men in development
and nation building.

What is the role of Gender and Development to the community?

- Gender and Development or GAD prevents the gender inequality and discrimination. In
which, GAD seeks and gives equal value to both men and women. It initiates and adopts
sustainable and efficient programs, projects and services to effectively promote gender
equality and women empowerment. Promotes effective economic development
programs and provides infrastructure support for mobility and accessibility of all.

- GAD ceases the social hierarchy in which men hold power over women in political and
personal, public and private, settings. Socializing men and women into roles that
influences the internalization of social hierarchy and replicate power dynamics which
perpetuate gender inequality and discrimination.