Philippine Alliance of Women With Disabilities experience on the ground does not coincide with this because Public Attorneys frequently have very heavy caseloads, thus are not always receptive nor sensitive, particularly to women with disabilities victims of VAW. “18.4 Other programs and advocacy activities to ensure PWDs’ access to opportunities and fair treatment are being implemented by other government agencies and LGUs: • … Protection services for female PWDs from DOJ … • Gender Sensitivity Training of DOJ’s service providers dealing with PWDs … • Police assistance to PWDs under PNP’s Women’s Desks …” There is no information or details of these protection services for women with disabilities. Furthermore, without quantitative data, nor identification of regions or provinces which have received Gender Sensitivity Training, it is difficult to understand how we, on the ground encounter a continuing lack of awareness, for instance toward deaf women and girl victims (e.g., cases documented in La Union, Eastern Samar, and others)55. For the deaf, Women’s Desks are very much limited in the assistance they can offer if there is no provision of sign language interpretation, and police officers themselves don’t know how to sign (e.g., cases documented in Quezon City, Legazpi City and others)56. 2. “Measures to ensure access of VAW victims to high-quality protection and support services including for women with disabilities” by the Department of Social Welfare and Development, the Department of Health and the Women’s Desks..” (para. 7.6) In the nearly 200 VAW cases / complaints (for deaf victims alone) that have been documented by the PDRC / Deaf Resources Philippines since 2006, very few, if any at all, have such victims received these “existing programs and services” and the “high-quality protection and support services, including for women with disabilities”. Even if they existed, their very existence do not necessarily reflect their effectiveness. In fact, the very absence of a national sign language interpreting system, renders Women’s Desks nationwide for instance, as essentially ineffective when deaf complainants approach them. This has been confirmed by experiences on the ground right within the National Capital Region, such as in Quezon City57. Without quantitative /disaggregated, and qualitative data from year to year that confirms the number of clients served, and their documented satisfaction over such services, implementation of commitments to the CEDAW or the domestic counterpart, the Magna Carta of Women is not substantiated. 55 56 57 PDRC / Deaf Resources Philippines case notes. Ibid. PDRC / Deaf Resources Philippines case notes 2015. 13