PE

• Women Empowerment


  The provision, availability, and accessibility of opportunities, services, and observance of human rights which enable women to actively participate and contribute to the political, economic, social, and cultural development of the nation. Providing them equal access to ownership, management, and control of production, and of material and informational resources and benefits in the family, community, and society.
• Discrimination Against Women


  Any gender-based distinction, exclusion, or restriction which has the effect or purpose of impairing or nullifying the recognition, enjoyment, or exercise by women, irrespective of their marital status, on a basis of equality of men and women, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural, civil, or any other field.
• Marginalization


  A condition where a whole category of people is excluded from useful and meaningful participation in political, economic, social, and cultural life.
• Marginalized groups


  • Small Farmers and Rural Workers
  • Fisherfolk
  • Urban Poor
  • Workers in the Formal Economy
  • Workers in the Informal Economy
  • Migrant Workers
  • Indigenous Peoples
  • Moro
  • Children
  • Senior Citizens
  • Persons with Disabilities
  • Solo Parents
• Substantive Equality


  The full and equal enjoyment of rights and freedoms, encompassing de jure and de facto equality and also equality in outcomes.
• Gender Equality


  The principle asserting the equality of men and women and their right to enjoy equal conditions realizing their full human potentials to contribute to and benefit from the results of development, and with the State recognizing that all human beings are free and equal in dignity and rights.
• Gender Equity


  Policies, instruments, programs, services, and actions that address the disadvantaged position of women in society by providing preferential treatment and affirmative action.
• Gender and Development (GAD)


  The development perspective and process that are participatory and empowering, equitable, sustainable, free from violence, respectful of human rights, supportive of self-determination and actualization of human potentials. It seeks to achieve gender equality as a fundamental value.
• Gender Mainstreaming


  The strategy for making women's as well as men's concerns and experiences an integral dimension of the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of policies and programs in all political, economic, and societal spheres so that women and men benefit equally and inequality is not perpetuated.
• Temporary Special Measures


  A variety of legislative, executive, administrative, and regulatory instruments, policies, and practices aimed at accelerating this de facto equality of women in specific areas. These measures shall not be considered discriminatory but shall in no way entail as a consequence the maintenance of unequal or separate standards.
• Violence Against Women


  Any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion, or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.
• Women in the Military


  Women employed in the military, both in the major and technical services, who are performing combat and/or noncombat functions, providing security to the State, and protecting the people from various forms of threat. It also includes women trainees in all military training institutions.
• Social Protection


  Policies and programs that seek to reduce poverty and vulnerability to risks and enhance the social status and rights of all women, especially the marginalized by promoting and protecting livelihood and employment, protecting against hazards and sudden loss of income, and improving people's capacity to manage risk.