September 13, 2023
Dear Krista Remollena,
Greetings!
Thank you for your request dated Sep 11, 2023 under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch, for Shelter for the Victims of Violence against Women in the Philippines.
Your Request
Shelter for the Victims of Violence against Women in the Philippines
Response to Request
We are providing you with 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 as well, 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 January 2019 to March 2023 only, as provided by the Philippine National Police.
Kindly see the 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 LGUs 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 the national incidence of violence against women and has 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
[email protected]/
[email protected] and Department of Social Welfare and Development at
[email protected] for further assistance on data and analysis concerns.
As an additional data source, please also check the results of the National Demographic and Health Survey (Violence Against Women Chapter), which you may download from the website of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA): https://psa.gov.ph/statistics/national-demographic-health-survey. The PSA also releases the Annual Statistical Fact Sheets on Women and Men in the Philippines, which, among others, contain VAW data: https://psa.gov.ph/gender-stat/wmf.
We wish to get your feedback on how we handled your eFOI request.
Please help us understand the quality of our services by taking a few minutes to respond to our client satisfaction survey which you can access through this link: https://bit.ly/GADIRSandFOIClientFeedbackSurvey.
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 (
[email protected]). 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,
Atty. Khay Ann Magundayao-Borlado
FOI Receiving Officer
