W E L C O M E ! ! !

Our Story

We started in 1989 as core of women from the three UPV campuses (Iloilo, Tacloban, Cebu) who were interested in promoting the welfare of other women.

We evolved into the UPV Women's Desk in 1990 as an organization of women and men from the various sectors and colleges of UPV who were interested in women's studies and women's welfare.

We became institutionalized as the UPV Gender and Development Program (GDP) upon the aproval of the Board of Regents on April 17, 1997.

Vision

The GDP shares a vison of an improved status of women, both urban and rural, in and outside the formal school system, as well as a reformed social order that rids itself fo the inequalities, injustices and exploitative conditions which have disadvantaged and marginalized people, particularly women, within Ilonggo, Cebuano and Waray societies and sub-Cultures.

Objectives

  1. The formulation and implementaion of gender-sensitive and gender-responsive programs for UPV and the Visayas Region;
  2. The mainstreaming of gender concepts and issues in the curricula and degree programs, co-curricular programs, projects and services of th University;
  3. The dissemination of information about these programs through public education, advocacy, trainings, research, publication and professional networking.

Components

UPV GDP objectives are anchored on feminist and democratic ideas in support of the economic, political, social, and cultural empowerment of women. They are pursued through three components: