Paz y Desarrollo (PyD) Social and Economic Development Department head Arnel Sanchez bares that the regional program with partner government agencies aims to promote gender equality in political participation in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Philippines, East Timor and Vietnam, which started in 2010 and will end in 2014, during the briefing workshop conducted recently at the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Caraga. (PIA-Caraga)