Tang 05:19 PM, Jun 30, 2022
Hi! I would like to request information regarding:
1. List of all Agencies/Organizations that accommodate services specifically with Shelter/Housing for the Victims of Violence against Women & Domestic Violence in the Philippines with:
a) Contact Details
b) Website
2. Guidelines on building a shelter for Victims of Violence against Women and Domestic Violence.
3. List of Violence against Women and Domestic Violence cases per region in the year 2019-2022 or if there are none, cases in the year 2021-2022 will be just fine.
Hoping for an immediate response within the week.
Thank you so much!
Calma 04:01 PM, Jul 04, 2022
July 4, 2022
Dear Mari Tang,
Greetings!
Thank you for your request dated Jun 30, 2022 05:19:16 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch.
Your Request
You asked for List of Shelters for Women.
Response to Request
Your FOI request is approved.
We are sending you the DSWD Centers and Residential Care Facilities (CRCF) report as of May 20, 2022 together with their contact information, and the DSWD Administrative Order No. 11 series of 2007 or the Revised Standards on Residential Care Service. Kindly take note that DSWD Centers and Care Facilities are not just for victims of VAWC but for other claimholders also, and other DSWD Field Offices around the country also maintain their own facilities for women and children.
We are also sending you the latest data on the reported VAWC cases, which is from 2019 until 2021 only, as provided by the Philippine National Police.
Kindly see attached files in this reply for the documents we have acquired from the mentioned agencies.
In the Philippines, Republic Act 9262 or the Anti-Violence Against Women and their Children Act of 2004 penalizes domestic violence against women and their children. The law covers physical, psychological, sexual, and economic abuses committed by intimate partners.
Section 40 of this law mandated DSWD, and LGU's to provide temporary shelters, counseling, psycho-social services and/or, recovery, rehabilitation programs and livelihood assistance to the victims.
As of now, PNP is the only source of data on national incidence of violence against women having a well established reporting system through their Crime Information Reporting and Analysis System (CIRAS). This electronic system is fully operational in all police stations and community precincts in the country.
Please ensure proper citation and you may also email the PNP Women and Children Protection Center at omd.wcpc@pnp.gov.ph/statistics.wcpc@yahoo.com.ph and Department of Social Welfare and Development at inquiry@dswd.gov.ph for further assistance on data and analysis concerns.
As an additional data source, please also check the webpage of the Philippine Statistics Authority where the Annual Statistical Fact Sheets on Women and Men in the Philippines, which among others, contain VAW data, has been proactively disclosed: https://psa.gov.ph/gender-stat/wmf.
Your right to request a review
If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response by writing to Atty. Kristine Rosary Yuzon-Chaves/Executive Director/oed@pcw.gov.ph. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 15 calendar days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result within 30 calendar days from the date when we receive your review request.
If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011).
Thank you.
Respectfully,
Jescel Aquino
FOI Receiving Officer
Attachments:
2) AO_2007-011.pdf
1) DSWD-CRCF-List-05202022.pdf
3) PNP VAW Data CY 2019-2021.pdf
