DA celebrates women empowerment, social inclusivity at NWMC 2023
In honor of the resilience, successes, and contributions of Filipinas to national development, the Department of Agriculture (DA) vowed to provide more opportunities to women especially in the agriculture sector during the opening ceremony of the National Women’s Month Celebration (NWMC) 2023, March 6. True to the Department’s commitment to empowering women in agriculture, Senior Undersecretary Domingo F. Panganiban shared that the DA is fully compliant with the Republic Act No. 9710 or the Magna Carta of Women, which requires government offices to allot five percent of their total budget to Gender and Development (GAD) initiatives. “Last year, we exceeded the mandated percentage as we allocated 17% or P11 billion […]