AWCF continues to train more co-operators on the principles, values, and practices of gender equality that will cascade to even more co-ops and co-operators. In the ongoing TOT in Davao City, a total of 28 people are in attendance (20 females and 8 males) from 12 co-ops, the Cooperative Development Authority-Davao Extension Office (CDA -DEO), and AWCF. Ms Sally Ganibe leads the AWCF team as Executive Director of the organization, which is a resource center and advocacy body in Asia on gender and co-operatives.
The TOT is organized by the AWCF in coordination with the CDA-DEO. This year, AWCF has done other TOTs for co-ops in different places in the Philippines, with the co-ops represented by their Gender Committee and Education Committee, Gender Focal Persons, and human resource staff and trainers who will handle gender education in the co-ops.
CDA-DEO Regional Director Ms Elma Oguis (in second photo) gave a welcome speech at the opening of this Davao training. She shared how CDA--as the lead government agency tasked for co-op development in the Philippines--is supporting the mainstreaming of gender and development (GAD) in co-ops in the country.
It will be recalled that in November 2013, CDA issued Memorandum Circular 2013-22 that contains the guidelines on GAD mainstreaming in co-ops (see http://cda.gov.ph/…/MC2013-22-Guidelines-on-mainstreaming-G…). In March 2014, the first-ever national summit on GAD in co-ops in the Philippines was held in Subic Bay, PH, co-organized by AWCF and CDA. The summit produced the "Declaration and Call for Action" that seeks to further strengthen the mainstreaming of GAD in Philippines co-ops so that these organizations can be even more effective vehicles for development (see http://coopwomen.org/…/full_declaration_final_gadsummit2014
(See also the video on gender equality produced by AWCF: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ac1AwogoyM)
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