The University Center for Gender and Development Office (UCGDO) is presently under the office of the Vice-President for Academics of the Philippine Normal University (PNU). It evolved from the Center for Peace, Gender and Human Rights Education of the then College of Arts and Social Sciences.

VISION

PNU shall be an internationally and nationally recognized teacher education institution that pursues gender fair and gender responsive education that will contribute to gender equality and women empowerment. As the established producer of knowledge workers in the field of education, it shall be the primary source of high-quality teachers and education managers that can directly inspire and shape the quality of Filipino students and graduates in the country and the world.

 MISSION

PNU is dedicated to nurturing gender-fair and gender responsive teachers, researchers, community advocates and education leaders.

 

GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT GOALS

  1. Develop gender fair curriculum and learning environment;
  2. Promote undertaking in GAD research, dissemination, and advocacy;
  3. Promote a non-sexist, non-discriminatory, and gender-based harassment and violence-free university;
  4. Develop GAD-enabling mechanisms and infrastructure; and
  5. Strengthen networking or linkages with GAD institutions or communities.

 

GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK

gender and development framework

PNU GAD Framework

 

This figure illustrates the three (3) main outcomes such as gender-fair educator, advocate of gender equality and women empowerment, and GAD researcher. These outcomes are facilitated by the presence of GAD enabling mechanisms and infrastructure, anchored on the core functions of the University in mainstreaming gender through instruction, research, and linkages and extension.

The framework aims to develop every PNUan whose principle in teaching is to be a gender-fair educator. For them to be one, it is expected that they will be able to integrate gender concepts and principles in the curriculum – teaching learning process, assessment, outcomes and objectives and in their learning environment. Instructional materials must advocate gender equality and women empowerment as well. To achieve this, the University together with the University Center for Gender and Development (UCGD) have rendered efforts in giving training and seminars to every faculty in the university.

This framework envisioned that if the gained knowledge through these trainings, seminars and workshops of these faculties will be implemented to their method of teaching, it can directly inspire and shape the quality of PNU graduates. When this happens, these gender-fair and gender responsive graduates will also mold educators with the same advocacy for the next generation. The vision might be strenuous but with the continuous and conscious determination of the UCGD and the University, the spiral effect of molding gender-fair educator could be achieved.

Furthermore, it is also ensured that the University have provided conducive and safe learning environment for PNUans. The university’s ethos and norms, institutional policies, and infrastructure have provided high support to students regardless of their gender.

As an advocate of Gender Equality and Women Empowerment, PNUans must be able to do extension projects that would promote gender literacy and gender equality in the community and university. In connection to this, the UCGD together with Community Partnership and Extension Office (CPEO) should forge partnership with communities, specifically, scout communities with higher incident of sexual harassment and/or gender-based violence, and with different advocating bodies such as UN Women Philippines, Department of Social Welfare (DSWD), and Council for the Welfare of Children (CWC), that would strongly build a foundation of people whose advocacy is to fight all forms of gender-based issues and violence against women and children (VAWC) here in the University and in the community.

The goal of this framework is to hone a PNUan who has a heart and mind of a GAD Researcher. Researches including issues confronting gender fair education across disciplines and among TEIs, research on gender statistics (sex disaggregated data), gender parity in schools and community, and gender-based violence in campuses would contribute to existing resources on gender and development. Ultimately, this outcome aims to contribute to the development of GAD code and policies on sexual harassment and/or gender-based violence that are of value to stakeholders.

Programs of UCGD

  1. Gender Responsive Instruction and Curriculum Development – This program aims to integrate gender fair education competence in various subject areas. It encourages the use of gender sensitive teaching materials and syllabi as well as gender sensitive language is classroom interactions. The program also aims to integrate gender concepts in the various curricula of PNU.
  2. GAD Research and Resource Collection – This program aims to produce GAD knowledge products by undertaking research and issue-oriented studies on gender fair education. It also develops training modules and information materials for the promotion of gender fair education and for gender awareness/sensitivity seminars. The program also establishes a repository or resource center for gender related research, publication, and multimedia materials for teaching and gender trainings.
  3. Gender Responsive Extension and Community Engagement – This program endeavors to forge linkages and coordinate with communities and other organizations on gender concerns. It particularly aims to promote gender awareness, gender equality and other gender sensitive practices in the communities.
  4. GAD Capacity Building – This program aims to organize the University Gender Focal Point System. It also capacitates the PNU community – faculty, students, staff and adopted communities – on gender issues through seminars and trainings and other capacity building activities.
  5. Gender Sensitive Faculty, Personnel, and Student Services – This program aims to develop and implement policies that respond to gender-related concerns, services and complaints such as anti-sexual harassment, gender sensitive counseling services, and gender-based criteria for hiring retention and promotion of faculty and personnel, among others.

GAD-TWG

TECHNICAL WORKING GROUP

  1. The Technical Working Group (TWG) may be chaired by a member of the ExeCom; or the head of the agency may designate a Chair outside of the ExeCom. The TWG shall be composed of representatives from various divisions or offices from both operations and support units within the agency, such as but not limited to planning, finance, human resource, senior technical officer from each bureau/division/office and where feasible, the statistics and management information office and/or whichever is applicable in the organization.
  2. The Technical Working Group may designate a secretariat.
  3. The structure and composition of the GAD Focal Point System may be modified based on the organizational structure of the agency or office.
  4. Regional Offices, bureaus and attached agencies may follow the structure of their mother agency or have a modified structure, which may, at a minimum, be composed of a TWG headed by a director or its equivalent.
  5. For SUCs, the GFPS shall create a TWG composed of the heads or deans of the different colleges or other campuses, policy and planning, budget, finance, human resource, research and extension offices and representatives from the students and the faculty. The GFPS shall be chaired by the highest official or her/his designate.

PNU GAD FOCAL POINT SYSTEM (GFPS)

  1. The PNU President as Head of the GFPS.
  2. The PNU President as Chair of the GAD Exeom with the following members: Vice President for Academics (VPA), Vice President for Research, Planning, and Quality Assurance (VPRPQA), Vice President for Finance and Administration (VPFA), Vice President for University Relations and Advancement (VPURA), and the UCGD Director as Secretariat.
  3. The PNU Manila TWG shall be Chaired by the UCGD Director and shall be composed of the Deans, Associate Deans, Directors of Extension, Research, Finance, HRMDS; Faculty Union (FU) President, Employee Association (EA) President, Institute Directors, Principals (ITL), Student Government (SG) President. The UCGD Faculty Assistant and a UCGD staff(s) shall serve as the TWG’s Secretariat to assist in documentation and/or data gathering.
  4. The PNU Hub’s TWG shall be Chaired by the GAD Head and shall be composed of the Deans, Associate Deans, Directors of OSASS, Extension, Finance and Administration, FMAS Head, BDO Head, HR; FU President, EA President and the SG President of the particular campus.

 

Contact details:
Address: Room 311, Main Building, Philippine Normal University Taft Avenue, Ermita Manila, 1000
Email Address: ucgdo@pnu.edu.ph
Facebook: University Center for Gender and Development
Tel.  no.: (02) 5317-1768 loc. 756
OIC Director: Dr. Zenaida Q. Reyes