(g)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 affirmative 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.
(h) "Gender and Development (GAD)" refers to 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 that should be reflected in
development choices; seeks to transform society's social,
economic, and political structures and questions they validity of
the gender roles they ascribed to women and men; contends that
women are active agents of development and not just passive
recipients of development assistance; and stresses the need of
women to organize themselves and participate in political
processes to strengthen their legal rights.
(i) "Gender Mainstreaming" refers to the strategy for
making
integral
women's
dimension
and
of
evaluation
and
economic,
and
equally
asses ing
societal
is
including
and at all
not
perpetuated.
legislation,
monitoring,
in all
programs
so that
and
women
and
policies,
or
political,
men
It is the
women
an
experiences
implementation,
spheres
for
implications
and
concerns
and
policies
inequality
the
action,
as well as men's
of the
design,
benefit
men of any
programs
of
process
in all
planned
areas
levels.
0) "Temporary Special Measures" refers to a variety of
legislative,
executive,
nstruments, policies,
administrative,
and
regulatory
and practices aimed at accelerating this de
lacto 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
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or
separate
standards.