National Economic and Development Authority’s Social Development Staff (NEDA-SDS) assistant director Cleofe S. Pastrana (inset) welcomes participants to the NEDA and Asian Development Bank (ADB)-sponsored Harmonized Gender and Development (GAD) Guidelines on Project Development, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation held recently at the Astoria Plaza, Pasig City. The training aims to produce intelligent and committed users that will implement the GAD guidelines in their respective agencies and produce a pool of trainors from different agencies that will institutionalize the GAD guidelines in the local and national level. A component of an ADB-sponsored technical assistance program on Improving Project Quality at Entry (Gender), the training supports NEDA’s drive to mainstream GAD guidelines by classify proposed projects according to their gender responsiveness using a set of harmonized GAD guidelines.