DA employees get GAD training

• Source:http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pampanga/local-news/2016/05/04/da-employees-get-gad-training-471677
• Friday, May 6, 2016

By Ian Ocampo Flora

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO -- The Gender and Development Program of the Department of Agriculture (DA) Central Luzon conducted a training on "Gender and Development (GAD) Guidelines and Gender Analysis Tools For Agriculture Programs, Projects and Activities".

The event was held at Lohas Hotel and Resort, Clark Freeport Zone, Angeles City Pampanga, last April 27 to 29.

The three-day training of GAD’s main objective is to educate more the participants in terms gender-sensitivity projects, and this training providing proper planning for GAD activities for the next years.

Gender and Development Technical Adviser of Bureau of Agricultural Research, Lorenzana A. Umali explained the significance of the said event.

"This training is important especially to us because it was written in the law of Magna Carta of Women that we are actually required by the law to undergo Gender and Development related trainings. This is not only written in Magna Carta of Women but also in the Land Mark Law of Women that emphasizes all agencies must conduct GAD trainings. These were signed by former President Cory Aquino," Umali said.

Umali added that RA No. 9710 or Magna Carta of Women states that all government agencies or government employees must undergo not only gender sensitivity trainings but technical trainings like training on harmonized development guidelines.

The participants of the event came from different DA Provincial Offices of Regions III. There were representatives from Nueva Ecija, Tarlac, Zambales and Pampanga.

Before the training concluded, all the participants of the event including the organizers the GAD Focal Point System had a report activity regarding gender and development checklist on designing and evaluating agricultural and agrarian reform projects.

In June there will be a training regarding GAD issues.