VI. SESSION 4: EXPERIENCES FROM THE GROUND, WORKING WITH LGUs AND COMMUNITY WOMEN IN ENHANCING WOMEN’S ACCESS TO JUSTICE IN GBV MS. JELEN PACLARIN Executive Director, Women’s Legal and Human Rights Bureau (WLB) The presentation centered on the guiding principles of the and concrete experiences of the Women’s Legal and Human Rights Bureau, Inc. (WLB) in working with localities and community women in the access to justice. It underlined that rights violation committed against males and females differ, hence it is important to reflect the voice of women using their own words, rather than investigative voice/perspective of investigator. Its legal and rights advocacy work is undertaken with the following guiding principles   Bias for the poor and marginalized women Poor women as women who are not only economically poor, but are also politically, socially and culturally poor. Women’s disenfranchisement and poverty are multidimensional, multi-faceted and intersectional WLB’s integrated approach in looking at women’s oppression - age, sector, class, race, sexual orientation and gender identity; etc. Women’s rights, agency, and empowerment   Continuum of empowerment Women exercise and negotiate their agency within different contexts Women’s access to justice     Equity, reparations and equal enjoyment of results Enabling environment for access to justice Women’s active participation, agency, and empowerment in the overall process Shift of consciousness and contribution to movement-building Development    Development as people-centered, participatory, inclusive, rights-based, sustainable; and transformative. Challenges and works to transform structures to make development and development planning responsive to the realities, vulnerabilities and needs of the community, women especially. These principles are being realized through mainstreaming feminist perspectives which involves (1) building feminist consciousness; (2) contributing to the development of feminist agenda; (3) 26