are being followed. This tool or process assists organizations in
establishing a baseline, identifying critical gaps and challenges,
and recommending ways of addressing them;
H.
the
cquality
"Gender Equality" refers
of
men
and
women
the principle asserting
and their right to enjoy equal
to
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;
I. Gender Equity" refers to the policies, instruments,
programs, services, and actions that address the disadvantaged
position of women in society by providing preferential treatment
and aftirmative action. Such temporary special measures aimed
at accelerating de facto equality between men and women shall
not be considered discriminatory but shall in no way entail as a
consequence the maintenance of unequal or separate standards.
These measures shall be discontinued when the objectives of
equality of opportunity and treatment have been achieved;
J. "Gender Mainstreaming" refers to 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 social, political,
Civil, and economic spheres so that women and men benefit
of
equally and inequality is not perpetuated. It is the process
assessing the implications for women and men of any planned
action, including legislation, policies,
or
programs in all
areas
and at all levels;
act
K. "Violence Against Women (VAW)" refers to any
result in
of gender-based vio lence that results in, or is likely to
to women,
or psychological harm or suffering
physical, sexual,
or arbitrary deprivation
including threats of such acts, coercion,
life. It shall
whether occurring in public or in private
liberty,
Or
be understood to encompass, but not limited to, the following:
and economic
psychological,
sexual,
Physical,
(1)
battering,
Violence occurring in the family, including
children in the
sexual abuse of female
45
household,