CAPACITY BUILDING SESSION

Gender sensitivity training

(GST) for educators
Prepared by
Marita Castillo Pimentel,
National GAD Resource Pool
Philippine Commission on Women

Framework and Flow of

the session
NATIONAL AND INTL
GAD
MANDATE
S
PERSONAL
GENDER
SENSITIVI
TY
SECTORAL
Gender in
education

GUIDELINES
AND ISSUANCES

Gender
and
Developme
nt

Learning goals
Improved understanding of
national and international
mandates on Gender and
Development (GAD)
Increased positive values on
gender fair teaching
Enhanced appreciation of GAD
work in schools

Rationale for GAD

At least
5% GAD
Budget,Complia
COA AOM
nce

International :
CEDAW,
MDGs (2000-2015),
SDGs(Sustainable Goals) 20162030
EFA
National :
PH Constitution
Magna Carta of Women
Philippine Development Plan
(2011-2016;2017-2022)
PPGD (1995-2025)
Gender equality
quality, equitable,
culture-based, and
complete basic education
Inclusive Growth,
Good Governance

Commitme
nt

Obligation
7

Basic GAD
Concepts

One word
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

Sex
Gender
Women
Men
Homosexuals
Discrimination
Equality

What is GAD
An approach to or paradigm of
development focusing on
social, economic, political and cultural
forces that
determines how differently women and
men participate in, benefit from, and
control resources and activities.
It shifts the focus from women as a
group to the socially determined
relations between women and men.

The PH GAD program is being

implemented through the GAD Plan and

DEVELOPMENT
Development aims at the
fulfillment of three basic
human needs:
the ability to provide for
basic necessities;
the ability to become
persons with identity,
dignity and self-esteem;
and
the exercise of freedom

What your eyes

can see

Sound me like
Volunteers pls- 3 Males and 3 females
1. A man singing like a woman
2. A woman singing like a man
3. A woman nagging her husband
4. A man arguing with his wife
5. Say sige na
6. Say ayoko

Sex

GENDER

Bio-physiological

Socio-psychological

Universal

Culture-bound

Relatively fixed
Categorized as male
or female

Interchangeable/changing
Categorized as
feminine or masculine

Attributes are equally

valued

Attributes are marked

by inequality

GENDER ROLES
Gender roles are
taught and
reinforced by
various social
institutions.
Examples:
Family
School
Religious
Institutions
Workplace
Government
Media

Society prescribes
specific roles for girls
and boys, women and
men, but values them
differently.
In almost all societies,
girls and women are
valued less than boys
and men.
Becomes the source
of discrimination and
oppression for
women.

GENDER SENSITIVITY
is a frame of mind

a set of attitude
the way we approach
whatever we do in our
intimate relationships, in
our work, in our everyday
transactions with the
outside world

GENDER
SENSITIVITY
- Not a war of the
sexes
- Not anti-male
- Recognition that
in practically all
cultures women
have a lower
status than men.

GENDER SENSITIVITY
- means taking women and men seriously
SEEING women and men, what they actually do, rather
than relying on stereotype assumptions
HEARING women and men, their needs, priorities and
perspectives
COUNTING the value of womens work
RESPECTING women and mens views and human rights
CARING about women and men and what happens to them
through development programs

Gender
awareness for
Educators

In Philippine population there are

more female than male.

FALSE

There are more female licensed

professional than male.
TRUE
As of July 2010, the percentage of licensed professional
women was higher at 63.7 percent than licensed
professional men at 36.3 percent (1,860,901 vs. 1,060,404).
And of the total 1,860,901 professional women, Teachers
accounted for the highest percentage at 44 percent
(819,377), followed by Nurses at 27 percent (504,902).
Among the women dominated professions, Midwives top the
list followed by Nutri-Dietitians, Social Workers,
Pharmacists, Librarians, Guidance Counselors, Dental
Hygienists, Interior Designers, Teachers, and Nurses.

There are more male OFWs than

female.
FALSE
OFWs who worked abroad at anytime during the period April to
September 2014 was estimated at 2.3 million. Overseas Contract
Workers (OCWs) or those with existing work contract comprised 96.0
percent (2.2 million) of the total OFWs. The rest (4.0% or 92 thousand)
worked overseas without contract
There were slightly more female OFWs (50.5%) than male (49.5%) OFWs.
Female OFWs were comparatively younger than male OFWs.
Almost three in every ten female OFWs (29.8%) were aged 25 to 29
years. By comparison, about one in every five (19.8%) male OFWs were
in same age group

Males are more at risks to

lifestyle related health
issues
TRUE

Hypertension remained relatively

high. Smoking is the most
common lifestyle risk factor. The
prevalence of smoking in women
is relatively low at 12.1 percent
compared with that of men at
56.3 percent.

In the World Economic Forums Global Gender

Gap Report 2013, the Philippines ranked 7th
out of 136 countries, making it the only Asian
country to enter in the top ten since 2006.

FALSE

Gender Equality in Education: the Role of Schools (2007)

What emerged
Schools in most cases reinforce
the existing gender ideology,
stereotypes, norms and
expectations everywhere
schools have the potential of
playing a transformative role in
changing the prevalent notions
and unequal relations, it does
not necessarily happen on its
own, and requires specific and
targeted interventions in most

What is Gender Fair Education (GFE)

Quezada-Reyes, Z. (2000) An Agenda for Gender-fair
Education.
ZENAIDA

involves the experiences,

perceptions, and perspectives of
girls and women as well as boys
and men (DE, USA 1995).
It aims to promote the teaching
and learning of gender equity,
highlighting female experiences
as products of historical and
cultural processes.

Gender issues in PH education

Strategic gender issues to be addressed
1. Boys are underperforming in key
education indicators compared to girls
2. Indigenous people (IP) also fall behind in
enrolment data and experience
discrimination
3. Higher education degrees manifest
marked gender-segregation
4. Gender biases and stereotypes remain,
and are still embedded in the curricula,
instructional methods, materials and
learning media
5. Women and girls continue to be vulnerable
to sexual harassment and violence inside
schools because of the lack of safe and

GAD Issuances
and Guidelines

PCW MC 2011-01

PCW-NEDA-DBM
JMC 2012-01

COA CIRCULAR 2014

GFPS/EXEC
COM/ TWG

GAD PLAN AND

BUDGET

GENDER
MAINSTREAMING

GAD AUDIT

PCW MC 2011-01

PCW-NEDA-DBM
JMC 2012-01

DEPED ORDER 27,

2013

COA CIRCULAR 2014

GAD Focal Point System

(GFPS)
1. is an interacting and interdependent group of
people in all
2. government instrumentalities
3. tasked to catalyze and accelerate gender
mainstreaming.
4. It is a mechanism established to ensure and
advocate for, guide, coordinate, and monitor
the
5. development, implementation, review and
updating of their
6. GAD plans and GAD-related programs,
activities and projects (PAPs);

MCW: Composition cont..

The agency/LGU shall ensure that all
members of the GFP undergo capacity
building programs on gender and
development which shall include but not
be limited to:
1.
2.
3.
4.

Gender sensitivity training (GST),

Gender analysis,
GAD planning and budgeting, and
Gender audit.

GAD PLAN AND BUDGET:

MANDATES
Magna Carta of Women (RA 9710)
PCW-NEDA-DBM JMC 2012-1
General Appropriations Act (GAA)
Philippine Development Plans
Womens Empowerment,
Development and Gender
Equality

What Can Be Charged to GAD Budget?

Those approved PPAs included in the PCW-endorsed and
DBM approved GAD Plan
Capacity Development on GAD
Activities related to the establishment of enabling
mechanisms for GAD, e.g. GAD Focal Point System,
VAW/Womens Desks
Salary of agency personnel assigned to plan, implement
and monitor GAD PPAs on a full time basis, following
rules and regulations in hiring and creating positions.
This provision does not apply to those who were given
extra assignment on GAD and are already regular
employees. Overtime work rendered in doing GAD PPAs
may be compensated through compensatory time off,
following government rules and regulations

What Can Be Charged to GAD Budget?

PPAs that address womens practical and strategic needs, provided
these have been previously approved by the Central Office and the
PCW and are reflected in the GAD plan and budget

Agency programs to address womens practical and strategic

needs (e.g. daycare center, breastfeeding rooms, crisis or
counseling rooms for abused women, halfway houses for
trafficked women and children, gender-responsive family
planning program among others);
Consultations conducted by agencies to gather inputs for
and/or to disseminate the GAD plan and budget;
Payment of professional fees, honoraria and other services
for gender experts or gender specialists engaged by agencies
for GAD-related trainings and activities; and
IEC activities (development, printing and dissemination) that
support the GAD PAPs and objectives of the agency.

What Can Be Charged to GAD Budget?

Consultation workshops to gather inputs for GAD
plan and other GAD mechanisms and processes
Honoraria and professional fees of external GAD
experts for programs
Development, printing and dissemination of
information and education campaign materials
Womens Month activities which are clearly
aligned to the yearly theme determined by PCW
and GAD Board.

What Cannot be Charged to GAD?

PPAs not in the GAD Plan and not endorsed by PCW and
approved by DBM
Personal services and honoraria of GAD Focal Point and other
employees assigned to do GAD work
Car-pooling, gas masks for traffic/ environment enforcers,
among others;
The following expenses may NOT be charged to the GAD
budget UNLESS they are justified as clearly addressing a
specific gender issue:
6.1 Physical, mental and health fitness including purchase of
equipment and information dissemination materials;
6.2 Social, rest and recreation activities;
6.3 Religious activities and implementation of cultural projects; and
6.4 Construction expenses

Purchase of supplies, materials, equipment and vehicles for

the general use of the agency.

GAD ISSUE/
MANDATE

Low participation
rate of boys in key
indicators
Discrimination of
IP boys and girls
Gender bias in
school materials
Sexual harassment
and violence
against women
and girls
Strengthening of
the GFPS
GAD Capacity
Building of

CAUSE OF
GENDER
ISSUE

GAD
GAD
OBJECTIVES ACTIVITY

GAD
ISSUE/
MANDAT
E
(1)

CAUSE
OF
GENDER
ISSUE
(2)

GAD
OBJECTI
VES
(3)

MFO/
PAPS
(4)

GAD
ACTIVITY
(5)

ORGANIZATION FOCUSED
Strength
ening of
the GFPS
GAD
Capacity
Building
of
Teachers
and
Admins
Reportin
g and
monitori
ng
system
on GAD

PERFOR
MANCE
INDICAT
OR
(6)

BUDGET
(7)

SOURCE
OF GAD
BUDGET
(8)

Unit In
Charge
(9)

Truth will set you free,

but first it will pissed you
off.
Gloria Steinem