While the GBV Observatory and Framework was launched last 28 November 2018, the Commission has yet to present the findings of
the mapping in five pilot areas and validate the data with representatives from the national and local government units concerned and with
civil society organizations. With this, the Commission through the Center for Gender Equality and Women’s Human Rights (CGEWHR),
conducted a one day validation forum titled “Making Data Work for Women: Validation of Framework and Research Findings on GBV” last 19
February 2019 at the PARDEC A and B, Commission on Human Rights, UP Diliman Complex, Quezon City.
As the Commission’s partners in the promotion and protection of women’s human rights and in the campaign in the elimination of
all forms of gender based violence, several participants (See Annex A) from key government agencies, local government units and civil
society organizations participated in the forum and helped enrich and ground the discussion on GBV including the Commission’s GBV
Observatory. During the presentation, the consultants raised the following issues on GBV:
1. How sensitive is the existing mechanisms and support systems to the intersectionality of women’s identities and contexts when they
document their experience of gender-based violence? How is this mirrored in the services open to and provided to diverse groups of
women?
2. How is the end-point of case management conceptualized (e.g. access to justice, empowerment), and consequently, documented?
3. How can the process of women’s empowerment be documented, recognizing that legal victory may not be the endpoint for many
women (women’s ideas of justice)?
Recommendations
1. Include in intake forms or client data sheets information on a range of identities of women, which may have been contributing to her
marginalization: ethnicity, SOGIE and abilities, among others.
2. Strengthen the documentation, research and publication of capacities of direct service providers and agencies, especially at the
local level.
3. Publish local data (city, municipal and provincial) on gender-based violence, recognizing the context-specific nature of the social
construction of GBV
MAKING DATA WORK FOR WOMEN: VALIDATION OF FRAMEWORK AND RESEARCH FINDINGS ON GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
A DOCUMENTATION REPORT
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