GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT OFFICE
The Gender and Development (GAD) Program of West Visayas State University was established to carry out gender mainstreaming in the areas of instruction, research, extension, and medical services.
Vision, Mission
- The Gender and Development Office envisions the WVSU Academic Community as the model for gender equality practices through the promotion and implementation of programs, projects and activities that are gender-friendly and gender-fair.
In the pursuit of its vision, the Gender and Development office shall:
• Work for the offering of a separated course on Gender Issues and institute training programs for engendering the school curriculum;
• Conduct researches on gender by utilizing various feminist research methodologies.
• Promote the inclusion of gender component in extension programs.
• Maintain and support the Drop-In center and Lactation Center as a program of Gender and Development Office in the main campus and Lactating Area in the external campuses.
• Establish linkages/ collaboration/networking with other institutions and agencies such as Commission of Human Rights, Philippine National Police, Department of Social Welfare and Development, UGSAD, Higher Education Association of Gender and Development Focal Persons – Western Visayas (HEAGADFP-WV), and other agencies for the efficient delivery of its services.
• Conduct gender-sensitivity training (GST) to students, teachers and non-teaching staff of the university system with the assistance of the WVSU- Center for Legal Advocacy, the Legal Clinic of the University.
Quality Objective
The Gender and Development (GAD) is committed to oversee capacity development on gender mainstreaming with appropriate programs, activities, and projects to address priority gender issues in the major programs/functions of the university: Instruction, Research, Extension and Medical Services which are client and organization-focused.