This learning session focuses on gender mainstreaming as a strategy to implement the gender equality policies and make it a fundamental value in development choices and institutional practice. Gender Mainstreaming ensures the recognition of gender issues on a sustained basis through the inclusion of a gender perspective in the design and implementation of plans and programs to carry out government mandates. This session also reviewed GAD-related mandates that are imperative and essential in fully understanding the basis and history of Gender and Development Approach in the country.