Philippine Commission on Women(PCW)

March 1, 2023 Dear DIXTY CARANTO, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated Feb 28, 2023 03:55:33 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch. Your Request VAWC CASES IN MOUNTAIN PROVINCE Response to Request This is in response to your request on the number of reported cases of violence against women and children in Mountain Province for 2022. We would like to inform you that PCW does not have city-specific data for VAWC cases but we can only provide you with the CAR VAWC statistics that we have acquired from the Philippine National Police. The file that we received from the aforementioned agency is attached to this response. 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. 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. You may also email the PNP Women and Children Protection Center at [email protected] and [email protected], for further assistance on data and analysis concerns. As an additional data source, please also check the webpage of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), specifically 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, Honey Castro FOI Decision Maker