REGIONAL INDIC ATIVE STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT PL AN 1 4 3 Enrolment ratio, gross is the number of students Gender refers to the socially and culturally constructed enrolled in a level of education, regardless of age, as a roles, privileges, responsibilities, power and influence, percentage of the population of official school age for that social relations, expectations and value of men and level. The combined gross primary, secondary and tertiary women, girls and boys. There are significant differences in enrolment ratio refers to the number of students at all what women and men can or cannot do in one society these levels as a percentage of the population of official when compared to another. In all cultures, the roles of school age for those levels. women and men are distinct, as are their access to productive resources and their authority to make Energy pooling refers to co-operation among parties or decisions. Typically, in most cases, men are held entities in development, transmission, conveyance and responsible for the productive activities outside the storage of energy in order to obtain optimum reliability of home, while the domain of women are the reproductive service, economy of operation, and equitable sharing of and productive activities within the home. In most costs and benefits. societies, women have limited access to income, land, credit, education, limited ownership and control over Equal opportunity measures seek to provide women with these resources. an enabling environment and optimum conditions to reach equal status with men. Gender and Development (GAD) approach originated from the analysis of the social relations between women Export duties means any duties or charges of equivalent effect imposed on, or in connection with, the exportation of goods from any Member State to a consignee in another Member State. External debt is the debt owed by a country to nonresidents that is repayable in foreign currency, goods or services. and men to explain why women were still marginally benefiting from development processes despite the fact that their specific contributions were being recognized. GAD approaches correlate unequal gender relations and the unequal access to natural, social and economic resources. This approach does not consider women, their roles, needs and aspirations, in isolation from those of men. Indeed, the responsibilities assigned to women differ among households, communities and societies but they are all determined in relation to those of men. It is Fish means any aquatic plant or animal, and includes eggs, larvae and all juvenile stages. Fishing means all activities directly related to the exploitation of living aquatic resources and includes transhipment. the social arrangements of these responsibilities between women and men that are the main focus of GAD policies. Gender empowerment is a process of awareness and capacity-building leading to greater participation in transformative action, to greater decision-making power and control over one's life and other processes. Fish stock means a population of fish, including migratory Empowerment of women as a policy objective implies that species, which constitutes a coherent reproductive unit. women legitimately have the ability and should, individually and collectively, participate effectively in Foreign direct investment is capital provided by a decision-making processes that shape their societies and foreign investor to an affiliate enterprise abroad in the their own lives, especially about societal priorities and form of equity capital or re-invested earnings or loans. development directions. Free trade area is a form of economic integration in which Gender equality is based on the idea that no individual there exists free internal trade among member countries should be less equal in opportunity, access to resources but each member is free to levy different external tariffs and benefits or in human rights than others. It is based on against non-member nations. the notion that "all people are created equal therefore