Part II: Data Gathering for the Report 1. Method and Process For both the data gathering with women and children, researchers conducted interviews, and where possible, focus group discussions. The interviews were conducted by the GAD and Children Focal persons, and other trained staff, of the the CHR Regional Offices. There were two FGDs facilitated: one with barngay level stakeholders in a city in Luzon, and the other with spouses and mothers of EJK victims in NCR. Interviews The interview tool for the women has 35 items of closed and open-ended questions on the following areas of inquiry: • • • • • • Interviewee’s profile Household profile EJK victim’s profile Household situation before and after the killing Immediate events after the death of the victim Ideas on justice in the context of EJK The CHR GAD focal persons and the Children Rights focal persons in the CHR Regional Offices led the study in their respective regions. Prior to data gathering, they attended a training on gender-sensitive and child-friendly research at the UP-College of Social Work and Community Development in May 2017. The training also covered the orientation on the interview tool and discussion on possible strategies in data gathering.2 It was agreed that that the training participants would echo their lessons to their team back in the regions, as part of the preparation for the data gathering.3 The field data gathering started in August 2017 and was completed in October 2017. The interviewees were recruited mainly from the families of EJK victims who had been interviewed before by the CHR-RO for the purposes of investigation or they had approached the office to ask for legal assistance. The process of recruitment and 2 A degree of flexibility was allowed for researchers in conducting the interviews, given the sensitivty of the topic which may require changing the sequence of questions in the tool, the phrasing in fielding the questions, among other adjustments. As experiences the researchers bear out, the process of interviewing for the project is markedly different from what the interview they do as CHR investigators in that it is more attuned – in fact, gives primacy to – the needs and feelings of the interviewee, rather than the agenda of the interviewer which is to gather data. Generally though, the researchers were able to follow the interview tool and gather information on its areas of inquiry. 3 It was required that CHR staff who will be involved in the data gathering have a basic orientation on gender-sensitive and child-friendly research. Only in one instance (Region VII) was there a report that a CHR staff who had not attended the echo session joined the data gathering. Panaghoy: The Philippine War on Drugs from the Perspective of Women March 2019 14