Gender and Development Office

The Gender and Development Office (GADO) is dedicated to actively integrate gender mainstreaming into all aspects of the university's operations. This entails advocating for gender equity, diversity, and social inclusion across various domains such as academia, research, extension activities, policies, programs, and administrative processes. This holistic approach is crucial for promoting and safeguarding human rights within the university community, including its campuses, thereby ensuring the well-being of students, faculty members, and administrative employees of our Sintang Paaralan.

GAD Centers

Center for Gender Training and Advocacy

The Center strives for gender equality through conducting gender-responsive activities. The Center for Gender Training and Advocacy (CGTA) is responsible for organizing and conducting seminars, capacity-building workshops, and training, including advocacy activities that are focused on the organization (teaching and non-teaching personnel) and its clients (students and industry partners in extension projects) promoting GAD through gender mainstreaming. The Center is also open to collaboration with other universities, LGUs, and NGOs in mainstreaming gender and development.

Specifically, the Center has the following functions:

1. Organize seminars, capacity-building workshops, and training, including advocacy activities that are focused on the organization (teaching and non-teaching personnel) and its clients (students and industry partners in extension projects) promoting GAD through gender mainstreaming;
2. Coordinate with other University units/offices and provision of technical assistance to other sectors of the University in conducting gender-responsive programs and activities;
3. Influence the gender-responsiveness of sectoral mechanisms, frameworks, tools, and policies;
4. Coordinate and conduct GAD capacity development sessions, e.g., GFPS assemblies, GAD Plan & Budget Forum, partnership-building in training delivery, etc;
5. Coordinate work with the Human Resource Management Department on the development and implementation of an appropriate capacity development program on gender equality and women’s empowerment for University employees based on the University GAD mandate and approved GAD plans and activities;
6. Collaborate with other units of the University or external partners with LGUs and NGOs in mainstreaming gender and development; and,
7. Develop and update modules and tools for GAD-related capacity-building programs of PUP and mainstreaming the GAD perspective in various training programs.

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Center for GAD Focal Point System

The PUP GAD Focal Point System (GFPS) is responsible for preparing and supervising the University GAD Plan and Budget (GPB) and GAD Accomplishment Report (GAD AR) to be submitted to the Philippine Commission on Women. The Center for GAD Focal Point System (CGFPS) is mainly responsible for coordinating with colleges, branches, and University offices in implementing the GPB. CGFPS under the supervision of the GADO Director is also responsible for training the PUP GFPS for the maintenance and improvement of the GAD mechanism in the University. CGFPS is also responsible for preparing an Audit Observation Memo (AOM) response with the help of responsible offices if any.

Specifically, the Center has the following functions:

1. Coordinate with the GFPS in the preparation, consolidation, and submission of the university GAD Plan and Budget, and GAD accomplishment report;
2. Formulate agency GAD Plans, Programs, and Budget (GPB) based on the University GAD mandate and approved GAD plans and activities;
3. Review and monitor the gender-responsiveness of sectoral agency development plans, including gender and development plans, and consolidate sectoral inputs and perspectives in the overall monitoring and reporting responsibility of PUP;
4. Monitor the implementation of GAD-related Programs, Activities, and Projects of different units, offices, colleges, branches, and campuses and suggest corrective measures to improve the implementation of GAD projects and GFPS activities, if necessary;
5. Prepare and consolidate agency GAD Accomplishment Reports and other related reports as required by the University and the national government;
6. Keep all records and documents of the GAD Focal Point and the Committees; and,
7. Create and monitor the different responsible committees of the GFPS.

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Center for Inclusivity and Diversity

The Center for Inclusivity and Diversity's main function is to provide support to the initiatives of various groups that advocate the interests of marginalized sectors.  The center is also responsible for monitoring the university's diversity and social inclusion programs, projects, and activities.

Specifically, the Center has the following functions:

1. Coordinate with the GADO and other University offices in formulating a Diversity and Inclusion Program (DIP) for the University, complete with Plans, Programs, and Budget in response to the needs of the internal stakeholders as well as the gaps and issues faced by the members of the basic sectors of the society such as the senior citizens, persons with disability, women, children, indigenous peoples, and other marginalized sectors of the community;
2. Work with the appropriate offices in the University on the development and implementation of the University DIP to advocate equality, equity, and empowerment for members of the basic sectors of society;
3. Coordinate with the colleges, and campuses on possible collaborative projects and activities on diversity and inclusivity;
4. Coordinate with external institutions to promote collaborations and partnerships on diversity and inclusivity-related projects and activities; and,
5. Prepare the university diversity and social inclusion annual accomplishment report and coordinate with the GADO Director on other University-assigned and related work/activities.