PNP: In Anti-VAWC office, we have a lot of
clients that do not opt to go through the
legal process. Most of them, they just
demand child support or financial support.
Most of them do not want to file a case since Atty. Twyla: Even here in CHR, many women who
their husband might be fired which will put report to us are only asking us to become
the whole family financial situation at risk.
mediators to their husband.
But there are still some who are at first
willing to file a case but after we refer them
to the proper station, they end up asking
financial support.
Rodel: Your study is very helpful for us. We have the
Nitz: Allow me to share our practice in
same practice as well. We have continuous
Marikina. Women, most times, they just want
capacity building and debriefing for VAWC officers.
someone to listen. It is important as part of
We have established also GAD code.
the debriefing process.
In Marikina, referral systems are still far from
We localized the mandate of MCW. In
perfect especially in the Barangay level. That is why
Marikina, we formed a referral group, which
we have continuous capacity building. We also look
includes the VAWC officers, LGU, Marikina
at the policy and LGU services to the victims.
hospitals, NGOs, paralegal, etc. We cater to
all the services. We gave training to VAWC Now we are building the database of Marikina City.
officers and more trainings on several laws. Right now, we only have the database of PNP, ours,
Our VAWC officers are linked to our offices so and the barangay’s. But this data is still different
they can always reach out to us.
from building referral systems. It is really
challenging to gather data, we have also tried
Our services are 24/7 service response
making tools before to understand the lived
because violence/abuse can happen at any
experiences of women. But as we are asked with
MAKING DATA WORK FOR WOMEN: VALIDATION OF FRAMEWORK AND RESEARCH FINDINGS ON GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
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