The University of the Philippines Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (UPCWGS), in partnership with the UP System Human Resource Development Office (SHRDO), organized the GAD UPDANAY (UP Together for GAD): UP System Administration GAD Focal Point System (UPSA GFPS) Conference on 5-6 November 2025 at the UP School of Labor and Industrial Relations (SOLAIR) Delos Reyes Auditorium.
Resource persons were the UPCWGS Training, Outreach, and Extension Program Team and Josephine Gabriel-Banaag, Member of the National Gender Resource Program of the Philippine Commission on Women (PCW). This initiative aims to craft the UPSA GAD Agenda, which is the strategic and context-specific GAD framework and plan on gender mainstreaming of the UP System.
UPDANAY is from the Hiligaynon word “updanay” which means fellowship, together, being with.