1. Continue to strengthen capacities of its Regional GAD focal systems on women’s human
rights and GBV documentation, focusing on the intersectionality of women’s social
identities and location;
2. Actively engage State and civil society organizations toward strengthening internal (for CHR)
and local (at the regional and provincial levels) resources and networks for (a) GBV
interventions, including material and psychosocial services for victim/survivors, and (b)
multi-sectoral and inter-agency GBV and WHR documentation and research;
3. Develop a knowledge management and communications system for maximizing GBV and
WHR-related data, both the quantitaive and qualitative, already being collected in the CHR
Regional Offices;
4. Take lead in the publication of a regional and provincial indices on human development
(HDI), gender and development (GDI), gender inequality (GII) as based on the international
measures on such; and
5. Explore the possibility of publishing a national and regional “women’s human rights index”
based on the provisions of the Magna Carta of Women
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