work.50 The results of the GIA also showed the same result – interviews with 799 respondents in 6 areas all over the country showed that women reported longer time spent on care work, with care work characterized as riskier, underpaid, and stigmatized. The latter is particularly for community health workers who are tasked as community COVID-19 responders. While the GIA also reported increased participation of men in sharing domestic work, its sustainability as communities transitioned from ECQ to GCQ remains to be seen.51 Sectoral monitoring by the Commission further provide evidence of women and girls’ multiple burden during the pandemic. A mother of a child with disability reported on the added burden of keeping children occupied during quarantine, “Nahihirapan din sa pag-asikaso sa aming mga anak, kasi pag nauubusan sila ng maintenance medicine nila ay nag-tantrums na ang mga batang may autism, down syndrome, at iba pa, at sa kaso naman ng mga CP or may epilepsy ay mag-seizure sila lalo na pag stress.” [It’s difficult to care for my child when maintenance medicine runs out. That’s when children with autism, Down syndrome start throwing tantrums. For children with cerebral palsy or epilepsy, they start having seizures especially when they’re stressed.] A sibling of a person with disability shared that, “Kailangan bantayan 24/7 kasi di namin alam takbo ng isip niya baka may masamang gawin. At saka ang mga gamot nya ay sobrang mahal po at di makayang bilhin at dahil dito maisasakripisyo na ang iba naming pangangailangan. Kaya kami ay nalulubog sa utang.” [We need to be care for them 24/7 because we do not know how he will (re)act. His medicine is so expensive. We’ve fallen into debt.] On top of unpaid care work at home, women community workers further face multiple burden and risk in in their community work. Prior to the pandemic, discussions of the Commission with community health workers, specifically Barangay Health Workers (BHW), already revealed tenure insecurity, multiple burden, and the very minimal allowances they are provided.52 This pandemic further added to the multiple burden of community health workers as they are tasked not only to become part of the COVID task force, but also in the conduct of relief packing and relief drive. Women doctors, nurses, midwives are not the only frontliners, barangay health workers and community midwives are also frontliners, and often lacking in protective equipment and provided with very little remuneration. Some of them also experience the stigma and discrimination from their own communities. With the start of the online schooling and modules for distance learning, women provide account of the burden of reproductive labor coupled with overseeing and supporting their children’s education. In GIDA areas, even the task of obtaining modules from the school or barangay is laborious, with wifi signal or internet connection even more difficult, or worse, no signal at all. All these compound the impact of the pandemic on women’s unpaid care work inside the house and in the community. Women and Girls, and communities previously marginalized and vulnerable are rendered even more vulnerable and at risk due to the COVID-19 crisis; Previous discussion prove that crisis, like the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbate and deepen existing inequalities. This impact is amplified among groups that are already vulnerable and marginalized. In this section, the report further discusses how women, girls, and communities previously marginalized and vulnerable are rendered even more vulnerable and at risk due to the pandemic. 50 Rappler. Over Half of Women in the Philippines Doing More Household work due to Pandemic. 20 June 2020. https://amp.rappler.com/nation/264356-over-half-of-women-philippines-doing-more-household-workcoronavirus-pandemic 51 Silayan, see note 19 52 CHR Forum on Community Health Workers, 2019 11