17 When possible, CSOs assist women in accessing medical, legal, and financial support to aid in pursuing their GBV cases and help them get back on their feet after surviving abuse. CSOs from regions 4A, 5, and 10 are able to provide women with temporary shelters or enlist them in a protection program. CSOs in regions 4A, 5, 10, and CARAGA, have livelihood programs to help women gain economic independence. In region 1, CSO staff make regular house visits to monitor progress made by survivors of abuse. Both government and CSO representatives see the continuing lack of awareness on women’s human rights and GBV among community women. Thus, the continuing conduct of awareness raising campaigns in barangays and local communities. In regions 1, 4B, 5, 9 government agencies and CSOs also distribute education materials and discuss among local communities rights of women and various concepts of abuse. The FGD also provided an occasion for government service providers and CSOs to identify and highlight their best practices. Government services providers refer to information dissemination drives, training, and other awareness raising activities as their best practice. Regions 3, 4A, and 8 consider as best practice their multidisciplinary approach to case management where they coordinate with other agencies through multidisciplinary referral systems. If fully implemented, service providers from region 3 recommend that agencies follow DILG policies and guidelines in attending to GBV. Service providers from region 2 report on giving clients free medical, legal, psychosocial, and financial support. CSO best practices on the other hand include capacity building and awareness raising activities on GBV. More importantly, they try to give enough support to GBV victims to ensure that they are not intimidated by the complicated processes involved in accessing remedies. In addition, CSOs monitor their clients’ conditions and follow up on the status of their cases. As much as they can, they provide women with access to sustained legal assistance and livelihood opportunities. Some also organize support groups where women with similar experiences may share their thoughts with each other. Lastly, some CSOs are able to provide shelters and livelihood programs and conduct house visits for survivors. GBV Documentation Despite standard referral mechanisms developed through the Inter-agency council against Violence Against Women (IACVAWC), the responses during the FGDs still reveal that for many of the participants, there are differing ways of documenting GBV by different agencies. The varied responses could indicate lack of awareness by some service providers of the basic documentation and referral pathway or it could also indicate that to the present. there is no streamlined and standard documentation for GBV cases. From the government service providers’ end, detailed reports of incidents of VAW are only consistently recorded in regions 4A, 5, 8, and 10. These records follow different templates. Across all regions, service providers keep their records confidential and only share them when benefiting GBV cases involved.