CEDAW/C/PHI/5-6 218. In 2002, Local and Barangay Councils for the Protection of Children, set up under the Child and Youth Welfare Code of 1974, can be found in 3,354 barangays in the country. In 1997, the interior and local government department strengthened these councils, including training prospective council members and barangay officials on how to conduct planning-consultation workshops. 219. The various agencies involved in law enforcement have their own units to deal with violence against women and children. At the National Bureau of Investigation, a Violence Against Women and Children Division investigates cases and provides protective services, counseling, medical examination and assistance, and proper custody to child victims of molestation or rape, and victims of drug abuse. At the justice department, the Task Force on Child Protection investigates, prosecutes and litigates cases of child abuse and exploitation. All police stations now have Women’s and Children’s Concerns Desks. Staffed mainly by women police officers, these units receive complaints by victims-survivors. As of late 2001, the Philippine National Police had set up 1,612 women and children’s desks in police precincts all over the country, staffed by 2,138 female and 405 male personnel. 220. There have been various interventions oriented to building the capacity of those with duty to address this human rights issue. Some of these efforts are as follows. a. The interior and local government department helped set up community-based women’s desks in all 19 municipalities and one city (San Fernando City) of La Union Province. Its services to local government units in this area included training in violence against women and children (VAWC) for the community fieldwork team, facilitation of a gender and VAWC orientation to barangay officials and women’s organizations, and conduct of planning workshop activities for the development of strategic mechanisms to address VAWC. b. The health department, in cooperation with NCRFW, Women’s Crisis Center (WCC) and East Avenue Medical Center, initiated the Hospital-Assisted Crisis Intervention for Women Victims/Survivors of Violent Environments, also known as Project HAVEN, to test a government hospital-based healing center for victims/survivors of VAW. Part of the output of this project is the development of protocols in the proper handling of VAW victims/ survivors in different government agencies and a video manual on setting up hospitalbased crisis centers. 221. There were also efforts to raise the awareness of the public and the pillars of the justice system, as follows: a. The Philippine Judicial Academy has conducted gender awareness seminars for prosecutors and judges (1999); gender-sensitivity program for the five pillars of the criminal justice system (2000); eight multi-sector seminars on juvenile and domestic relations (September 2000 to October 2001); and judiciary workshop on "Realizing Economic, Social and Cultural Rights" (September 12-14, 2001). Partners included the UP Institute of Judicial Administration, the NGO Harnessing Self-Reliant Initiatives (HASIK), UNICEF, UNDP, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and The Ford Foundation. b. Several departments coordinated their efforts in mobilizing media in the advocacy campaign to promote and protect the rights of children, as well as to campaign against 68