(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 9 or separate standards.