The gender and development advocates of the Department of Agrarian Reform in Aklan gathered for a planning conference on March 12, 2010 at Café Latte, in Kalibo to review the Gender and Development Operational Directives for 2010.
Some 50 employees and agrarian reform beneficiaries from selected agrarian reform communities agreed to strengthen its campaign in the elimination of violence against women and children in their respective communities and in the workplace. It was noted that the increasing trend of crimes in Aklan and the barangays have reached the attention of CARP implementers especially in cases where the victims are children or agrarian reform beneficiaries themselves.
Atty. Daniel Y. Martelino, PARO II pledged to support the training and information drive in DAR ARCs to address such issues. Atty. Nadia Marie T. Obordo, DAR Legal Officer stressed the legal basis and the agency’s commitments locally and internationally such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
She also welcomed the passage of the Magna Carta of Women which fully prescribed to the rights and privileges’ of the rural women in consonance with the CARP Extension with Reforms. The conference concluded with a challenge from Mr. Numeriano M. Cordova, Jr. to ensure that in all the plans and programs of DAR-Aklan, gender and development are mainstreamed. /MP
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