G-BEST for

ARB Leaders:
A Guidebook for Trainers
 G-BEST for*
ARB Leaders:
A Guidebook for Trainers

Department of Agrarian Reform

Bureau of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Development (BARBD)

*Gender-Based Effectiveness Skills Training (G-BEST) Program;

Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs)
ISBN 971-92166-4-6

The Cover
The G-BEST journey is a personal as well as an
organizational gender journey. In every module, trainers and
the ARB leaders take a journey together as they explore concepts
and go through exercises while they re-examine their traditional views
about women and men and their relations, clarify and resolve gender myths,
and build commitment to the transformation of traditional
gender perspectives and to the achievement of gender equitable relations
in the home, community and ARB organizations. The gender journey
does not stop at a point, however. It continues to infinity as each and every
participant continues to become more and more a passionate advocate of
gender and development. Just as the DAR gender journey itself continues to
evolve, beginning from the first time that joint titles were issued to ARB
spouses in Samar in 1986 up to this time that it is advocating the G-BEST
program, with each milestone in its journey hopefully strengthening the
cause of gender mainstreaming and gender equality. The clay sculpture on
the cover was created as a workshop output by a group of G-BEST
participants in November 2001. The sculptors’ message is that
the many phases and courses of the work in gender finally
take the form of a heart, full of love and understanding,
and help form a chain among people
–women and men–transcending beliefs and cultures.

Published by the
Department of Agrarian Reform-
Bureau of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Development (DAR-BARBD)
Elliptical Road, Diliman
Quezon City, Philippines
Written by the Asian Women in
Co-operative Development Forum (AWCF) based on concepts
developed by BARBD and FAO-SARC-TSARRD and on proceedings of the
Gender-Based Effectiveness Skills Training (G-BEST) Program
conducted by BARBD for DAR personnel and ARB leaders in 2001.

Quezon City, Philippines

2002