TYPES OF LEGAL
ASSISTANCE AND
DOCUMENTATION/
PROTECTION SERVICES
RENDERED
# OF ASSISTANCE
RENDERED
BRIEF BACKGROUND/ DETAILS
ADR for Child Support (not for
VAWC cases)
ADR -1
Facilitated the conduct of ADR of parties and
agreed to mutually provide financial support of
their children.
1 Issued Subpoena for
Child Support
IV. MONITORING FUNCTION AS GENDER OMBUD
As early as March 2020, we were able to send out monitoring letters to respective LGUs in
the region to monitor compliance with section 11 (Protection from Violence) of the
Implementing Rules and Regulations of the Magna Carta of Women, the Office requests
information regarding the number of Barangay VAW Desks established in the region, the
number or Barangay Protection Orders Issued and the existence/non-existence of
Barangay Resolutions with respect to the this Barangay VAW Desks This is based on the
memorandum order from the Center for Gender Equality and Women‘s Human Rights,
(CGEWHR). Also, we sent out monitoring letter regarding compliance on section 12
(Protection from Violence) and section 18 (Women in the military, police and other related
services). This office drafted the monitoring letter to be personally delivered to each police
station, jails and/or lock-up cells that we will be visiting in the year. However, we are still
waiting feedback from them since they may have received just before the lockdown.
However, we would like to inform the CGEWHR that LGU-Valencia City where the Office of
the City Mayor positively responded to the communication which was sent out last year re:
Human Rights Advisory on the Prohibition of Home-Birthing and Imposing Penalties
thereto‘. The City Mayor Azecena P. Huervas stated in the letter-reply that ‗we shall help
to discuss and disseminate to our constituents and communities here in our City’. In the
last part the Mayor added, ‗We thank you for your zeal in advancing the cause of human
rights in the country’.
Further, we also requested data from the Department of Interior and Local Government
(DILG)-X re Barangay VAW Desk Functionality for 2020 however, their office has yet to
finalized the 2020 consolidated report this May which is yet to be updated. DILG-X have
provided us again the 2019 Consolidated Assessment Report that we also used during the
GBV referral mechanism focus group discussion (FGD) and the Regional GBV Summit held
last November 25, 2019.
We are pleased to provide you with data on the accomplishments of the Local Committee
Against Trafficking and Violence Against Women and their Children (LCAT-VAWC), which
will be provided as attachment. The report covers the period July-December 2019 and
shown in said reports are activities conducted in the creation and/or reconstituting the local
GAD January-May 2020 Situation Report
CHR-X
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