GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT
What is GAD?
Gender and Development (GAD) is 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 potentials. It seeks to achieve gender equality as a fundamental value that should be reflected in development choices and contends that women are active agents of development, not just passive recipients of development. It is an approach that focuses on the socially constructed basis of differences between men and women and emphasizes the need to challenge existing gender roles and relations. view more….
Gender Mainstreaming
Gender equality as the goal; gender mainstreaming as the strategy.
Gender Mainstreaming or Gender and Development (GAD) mainstreaming is the major global strategy for ensuring that the government pursues gender equality in all aspects of the development process to achieve the vision of a gender-responsive society where women and men equally contribute to and benefit from development. Its importance has been extensively discussed since governments committed to this concept in the Beijing Platform for Action during the Fourth United Nations World Conference on Women in 1995. view more…