SHANGHAI, 10 August 2021 – All fourteen Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) organic personnel assigned at the Consulate General here, as well as two local Chinese staff, successfully completed the DFA’s Online Gender Sensitivity Training (GST) Course, and were awarded Certificates of Completion.

The Online GST Course was the first offering of the DFA under its Learning Management System (LMS) platform, launched in March this year.

All Philippine Foreign Service missions, through their respective Gender and Development (GAD) Focal Points, were mandated beginning 28 June to have their personnel take and complete the course within a prescribed period. The Philippine Consulate General in Shanghai achieved a 100% completion and passing rate.

The GST Course was developed by the UP Social Action for Research Development Foundation Inc., and Buri Technologies Inc., in partnership with the DFA’s GAD Secretariat. Over nine online modules, the course discussed basic gender concepts, gender roles, gender mainstreaming, and gender analysis, with a view to sensitizing personnel on gender equality, women empowerment, and gender issues arising at work.

GAD-competency building is a key priority of the DFA. END