DPWH GAD POLICIES CONTINUES EMPOWERING WOMEN EMPLOYEES

        

To ensure the Department's continuing compliance with Republic Act No. 7192, otherwise known as the “Women in Development and Nation Building Act," Secretary Victor A. Domingo has reconstituted the DPWH Committee on GAD (COGAD). 

 

GAD, which is short for Gender and Development, is the program centered on all efforts to unify the women of DPWH across the country, in order to address their concerns in a male-dominated infrastructure agency of the government. 

 

Assistant Secretary for Planning Maria Catalina E. Cabral, Chairperson of DPWH-COGAD, said that it is high time that GAD policies be given importance for women employees in the department to raise awareness on their role in development and nation building. 

 

To institutionalize mainstreaming of GAD in infrastructure development, Asec Cabral stated that the department has formulated policies and guidelines on mainstreaming GAD. 

 

“We have constructed a sub-website for GAD in the DPWH website to establish right and accessible information,” Asec Cabral added.

 

To provide safe and sustainable transport service to rank and file employees, GAD will provide a transport service for the Rank and File employees.

 

The department is conducting a feasibility study on the provision of restrooms every 50 kilometers along national roads to provide more restrooms with more cubicles for greater responsiveness to the needs of travelers, especially women. 

To establish quarters responsive to the needs of women employees having separate sleeping quarters and bath/toilet facilities, GAD will rehabilitate/construct DPWH Regional cum Training Centers and District Headquarters. 

 

Gender and Development Training for DPWH GAD Trainers were already conducted in two batches: first, for regional GAD focal persons and second, for the PMOs, Bureaus and Services.  Trainings were conducted to enhance their knowledge and change their attitude on Gender Development.

 

 

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