FOCUSED AREAS OF

GENDER AND
DEVELOPMENT
 WHAT ARE THE FOCUSED AREAS OF
GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT? AND WHY
DO THEY PRIORITIZE THESE SECTORS?
 AND G A D
Education improves the quality of life by enabling literate people to promote health,
expand access to paid employment, increase productivity in market and non-market work,
and facilitate social and political participation. As such, it is a basic human right that should
be equally accessible to all.
 why prioritize this
sector?
Educating women is imperative because it enables them to participate in the labor
force and sustain themselves and their families' needs. This stems from the fact that
in modern Filipino families, both husband and wife should engage in productive work
to earn enough for their family‘s needs.

Education has been a facilitating factor towards women‘s economic empowerment. A

mother‘s level of education has been found to create positive educational outcomes
for her children since she is primarily assigned to the rearing of children. Educated
women build smaller families, with a lower rate of children dying in infancy; hence,
surviving children are given better access to education. Furthermore, educated
mothers lead better-quality life for their children.
 AND G A D
DID YOU KNOW THAT?
The Philippines is the:

1st riskiest country in the world when it comes to natural disasters (2022 World Risk
Report)
13th most climate-vulnerable country (2016 Climate Change Vulnerability Index)

4th most affected country by weather-related loss events from the period of 2000-

2019 (2021 Global Climate Risk Index)

 HOW ENVIRONMENT AND THE GENDER
AND DEVELOPMENT INTERCONNECTED?
 why prioritize this
sector?
The threat of climate change and other climate hazards is not gender neutral.
Prevailing inequalities, including gender inequalities, are magnified by climate-related
events and often neglected is the fact that it has more devastating effects on women
and girls.
Gender-based discrimination in this sector is experienced by women and girls in
different ways.
This sector focuses on addressing and eliminating the prevailing inequalities that
exist for women and girls in the areas of biodiversity, climate change and disasters,
and other environment-related areas.
 INTERNATIONAL
STRATEGIES
Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA)
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Gender Equality and Women Empowerment (GEWE)
 access to
AND G A D
Issues and challenges:
• fragmentation of the justice system.
• backlogs in resolving cases and delays in case development procedures continue
to increase, and penal facilities are occupied way beyond capacity.
• lack of public awareness, trust and investor confidence underscores the people‘s
low
appreciation of the country‘s justice system.
• limited resources of relevant agencies cause inefficiency and slow delivery of
justice
why prioritize this
sector?
Access to justice is a fundamental right and an essential factor for women‘s
empowerment and gender equality, especially for the vulnerable and the
marginalized sectors including women and girls.

Access to justice initiatives should be geared towards one ultimate goal – to

empower the vulnerable and marginalized women and bring them to the
sense of ―justice‖ they request and demand.
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for listening!