2024 GAD Webinar Series

The online GAD Webinar Series is the Philippine Commission on Women (PCW)’s response to the mission of providing appropriate and strategic technical assistance on gender and development (GAD) to various stakeholders. Taking advantage of the shift from traditional modes of learning to innovations in information and communication technology (ICT) such as digital, mobile, and e-learning, the GAD Webinars offer an accessible, location-flexible, innovative, and informative platform to educate policymakers, public servants, gender trainers, and the general public on GAD. The webinar sessions are designed to create awareness of gender sensitivity as well as to enhance knowledge and skills on GAD concepts, tools, and their applications to gender mainstreaming, gender analysis, GAD agenda development, and GAD planning and budgeting. These learning sessions aimed at building the GAD-related competencies of GAD Focal Point System (GFPS) members and relevant stakeholders to enable them to fulfill their roles in gender mainstreaming and the implementation of GAD-related policies and mandates of their respective offices and organizations.

Since 2020, the GAD webinars have cemented PCW’s mandate as a leader in online GAD capacity building responsive to the capacity development needs of its primary clients and stakeholders. While the webinars have reduced the need to organize face-to-face technical assistance, they enabled PCW to provide technical assistance on GAD, gender mainstreaming, and gender analysis en masse to various stakeholders. As such, they have contributed to the increased knowledge of GAD among the 16,925 participants of GAD Webinars organized from 2020-2023, with 13,228 females, and 3,679 males.

For FY 2024, PCW will offer eight (8) sessions, an increase from the previous year’s six (6), primarily to incorporate topics on the creation of a GAD database and topics specific and relevant to local government units (LGUs) in light of the upcoming issuance of the revised guidelines on local GAD planning and budgeting and to address the need for technical assistance on gender analysis of LGU. Thus,  the 2024 GAD Webinar Series will feature new webinar sessions focused on the utilization and application of the Gender Responsive LGU (GeRL) Tool, a separate GAD budget forum tailored for LGUs, and a learning session on the development of the GAD database.