21/05/2026
๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ | The Philippine Merchant Marine Academy (PMMA), through its Gender and Development (GAD) office, held a two-day basic gender and development orientation, gender analysis, and gender analysis tools workshop, May 19-20.
The workshop, attended by members of the Academyโs Gender and Development Focal Point System (GFPS), equipped them with foundational knowledge and practical skills to integrate gender perspectives into PMMAโs operations. Sessions spanned core concepts of GAD, hands-on activities designed to ground learning in real institutional contexts.
Leading the sessions was Dr. Gina A. Opiniano, a Philippine Commission on Women-certified member of the National GAD resource pool and independent consultant with extensive experience in gender mainstreaming across government institutions.
The two-day engagement highlights the Academyโs commitment to institutionalizing gender mainstreaming, a mandate aligned with the countryโs broader development agenda under Sustainable Development Goal 4 (Quality Education) and SDG 5 (Gender Equality).
The activity is also timely as the international community just recently celebrated the International Day of Women in Maritime and launching of the Handbook on Gender Mainstreaming in the Maritime Sector, which calls for action to address persistent gender inequalities across the maritime industry, last May 18.
By building the internal capacity of the GFPS committee, PMMA takes deliberate steps toward ensuring that gender considerations are not peripheral, but central to how the PMMA plans and implements its programs.
