2021_RIVERA_ Full Report_Summary Report - UNWomen Online Training Series.PDF

THE ONLINE TRAINING WEBINAR SERIES ON
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN MIGRANT WORKERS
Prepared by Roselle Leah K. Rivera,
National Consultant, Strategy Development in Collecting and
Analyzing VAW Administrative Data
with technical support from Jenny Quizon-Colegio RSW,
Engr. Karlo Daniel Colegio and Eunice Hechanova
2021 May

Table of Contents
Introduction............................................................................................................................................ 4
Highlights of the Training Consultation Webinar Series: Major Themes and Key Issues.................... 5
Session 1: Models in Data Management Systems ................................................................... 5
Session 2: Data Governance: Ethics and Confidentiality ......................................................... 6
Session 3: Violence against Women and Migrant Data: Issues, Challenges and Directions .. 7
Methodology of the Sessions................................................................................................................. 8
Participants............................................................................................................................................. 8
Preliminary Survey ................................................................................................................................. 8
Pre-Test and Post-Test ........................................................................................................................... 9
Conclusion and Recommendations ....................................................................................................... 9
APPENDIX A. Full Documentation Report for the Sessions of the Online Training-Consultation cum
Action Planning Meetings.................................................................................................................... 11
APPENDIX B. Further Details and Results of the Preliminary Survey for the Online Training-
Consultation cum Action Planning Meetings ..................................................................................... 46
APPENDIX C. Detailed Results for the Pre-test and Post-test conducted during the Online Training-
Consultation cum Action Planning Meetings ..................................................................................... 56
APPENDIX D. Screenshots Taken During the Online Training-Consultation cum Action Planning
Meetings .............................................................................................................................................. 59

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List of Acronyms
ATN Assistance to Nationals
CFI University of San Agustin Iloilo Center for Health Informatics
CHR-CGEWHR
Commission on Human Rights Center for Gender Empowerment on Women’s
Human Rights
CSWCD College of Social Work and Community Development
CIRAS Crime Information Reporting and Analysis System
IACVAWC Inter-Agency Committee on Violence Against Women and children
MRC Migrant Resource Centers
NDHS National Demographic and Health Survey
NMS National Migration Surveys
NEDA National Economic and Development Authority
OWWA Overseas Workers Welfare Association
POEA Philippine Overseas Employment Administration
SDG Sustainable Development Goals
UP University of the Philippines
UPPI University of the Philippines Population Institute
VAW Violence against women
VAWMW Violence against women migrant workers

Summary Activity Report on the Online Training Webinar Series
on Violence against Women Migrant Workers
Introduction
The Safe and Fair: Realizing women migrant workers’ rights and opportunities in the ASEAN
region (2018-2022) programme is part of the multi-year EU-UN Spotlight Initiative to Eliminate
Violence against Women and Girls. This programme, in close cooperation with governments and social
partners, aim to achieve the following specific objectives:
1. Women migrant workers are better protected by gender-sensitive labour migration
governance frameworks.
2. Women migrant workers are less vulnerable to violence and trafficking and benefit from
coordinated responsive quality services.
3. Data, knowledge and attitudes on the rights and contributions of women migrant workers are
improved.
This report discusses a series of training-consultation cum action planning meetings
conducted between the national consultant for strategy development with government agencies and
interagency bodies in collecting and analyzing VAW administrative data disaggregated by migratory
status and representatives of various government agencies and non-government organizations in
hopes of achieving the following objectives:
Overall objective:
This online training webinar series is aimed at engaging various government agencies
in the Philippines involved in the collection, storage, and management of data on
gender-based violence on women migrant workers.
Specific objectives:
• Strengthen data analysis, collection, integration/ consolidation, and management of
VAW and migration administrative data.
• Build the capacity of government agencies and interagency bodies with a specific
mandate and role to collect and analyze data on violence against women (VAW) and
migrants; in cooperation with multi stakeholders.
• Develop an action plan with concrete steps for improving VAW and migration
administrative data collection, integration / consolidation, and management.
Each session was conducted with a subtheme related to the overarching theme of “Administrative
Data on Violence against on Women Migrant Workers”, as follows:
• Session 1: Models in Data Management Systems
• Session 2: Data Governance: Ethics and Confidentiality
• Session 3: Violence against Women and Migrant Data: Issues, Challenges and Directions

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Highlights of the Training Consultation Webinar Series: Major Themes and Key Issues
Models in Data Management Systems
Key Issues:
• PNP’s existing reporting system which is the Crime Information Reporting and Analysis
System (CIRAS) is not segregated by migratory status and not publicly available.
• VAW/ Migrants Case Intake Forms and Adherence to/ Alignment with National Polices.
• Lack of a Centralized Information Management System and limited segregation by VAW
cases for Migration-related agencies.
In the first session of the training consultation webinar series, the sharers were Police Colonel
Joy Tomboc, the PNP Women and Children Protection Center Anti-VAWC Division Chief, Ms. Lhyndzie
Anne Orozco, a Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) Philippine Consulate General Attaché,
and Ms. Adelfa De Guzman, a social worker from Saklolo at Gabay ng Ina at Pamilya (SAGIP) of the
City Government of Muntinlupa. One interesting anecdote from the sharing included PCol. Tomboc
showing how the PNP uses the Crime Information Reporting and Analysis System (CIRAS) as their way
of generating reports about incidents of women experiencing VAW and how such an organized system
is useful for sharing limited information when required by other agencies. On the other hand, Ms.
Orozco shared how, in their office, there is no separate form available for VAWMW and how most of
the complainants do not push through with filing official reports out of fear of unemployment or
employer abuse. Finally, Ms. De Guzman shared that in SAGIP, although they have proper
infrastructure and protocols for dealing with cases of VAWMW, the intake forms being used should
be reviewed to reflect current policies and laws. Ms. De Guzman also mentioned how the lack of a
centralized information management system may cause redundancies in data collection due to all the
different agencies working on a single case. Dr. Romulo De Castro, the main speaker for the first
session, lectured on models for data management systems and their application for VAW
administration data. Dr. De Castro focused on the principles of fairness, benefits, openness, and
reliability of the data management systems.
The major gaps cited from the presentations and discussions are:
• Need to localize and contextualize data management systems for the relevant agencies,
organizations, or offices, given the reality of uneven availability of necessary facilities.
• Absence of data checking tools such as the Record Audit Trail to make sure that stored
data in the system would not be compromised.

Data Governance: Ethics and Confidentiality
Key Issues:
• There is a need to ensure protocols in VAWMW administrative data collection to ensure
protection and welfare of survivors.
• Requiring training of agencies, institutions, offices, organizations and involved personnel
on existing protocols and mechanisms in managing administrative data.
• The harmonization of administrative data across levels of offices and Institutions for the
development of a sustainable, consistent, and centralized database.
During the second session, three participants who were asked to share were Atty. Krissi
Shaffina Twyla Rubin, the officer-in charge of the Commission on Human Rights - Center for Gender
Equality and Women’s Human Rights (CHR-CGEWHR) office; Mr. Yuri Leomo, the National Economic
and Development Authority (NEDA) Senior Economic and Development Specialist, and Mr. Leandro
Luiz Manantan, Second Secretary and Consul Head from the Embassy of the Republic of the Philippines
in Kuala Lumpur. Atty. Rubin shared some of the challenges she faced in the CHR with regards to the
protocols on confidentiality of the data of the survivors. Mr. Leomo, similarly, described VAW
documentation and expressed how data collection should be streamlined to maintain the welfare of
victims. He described how having a survivor recount their experiences to every data collection point
at each office visited is a traumatic experience and thus, data sharing amongst data collection agencies
and anonymity of survivors should be improved. Finally, Mr. Manantan shared some challenges
involving consent and confidentiality to representatives of survivors, especially those that are minors.
The second session’s main speakers were Dr. Josefina Natividad, former Director of the
University of the Philippines Population Institute (UPPI) and Ms. Luz Lopez Rodriguez from the
Women’s Legal and Human Rights Bureau. Dr. Natividad focused her discussion on the ethics behind
the general practice of data collection and management while Ms. Rodriguez highlighted the
applications of ethics and confidentiality on dealing with VAWMW.
The gaps highlighted during the session are:
• Lack of awareness on the critical processes to differentiate administrative data from data
generated primarily for research, such that the consent and awareness of the victim-
survivor on how the data they provided will be used, should be considered and respected.
• The need to strengthen interventions in protecting the data of the VAWMW victim-
survivors—extending emphasis on their physical protection, wherein efforts should be
exhausted in ensuring that even though they have not decided to divulge information,
the victim-survivors must be relocated somewhere private and safe from any threat.
• Updating of facilities and operational systems for dissemination and localization to
involved offices (especially those located in far-flung areas), and the improvement of
these mechanisms so that they are better maintained in the long-term.

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Violence against Women and Migrant Data: Issues, Challenges and Directions
Key Issues:
• Incomplete data documentation
• Web-based documentation system targeted for localization needs further preparation.
• Reinforcing understanding and improving assessment on the behavior, access and needs
of VAWMW victim-survivors in seeking support.
In the third and final session, the sharers were Atty. Francis Ron De Guzman, a Director from
the Anti-illegal Recruitment Branch of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA),
and Ms. Prossy Dumlao from the Philippine Commission on Women. Atty. De Guzman shared
challenges and issues his office in POEA encountered in providing legal assistance to their clients such
as incomplete data gathering and some clients being non-documented overseas workers, hampering
deeper data collection. Ms. Dumlao shared the efforts of the IACVAWC in harmonizing data collection
on VAWC such as a web-based documentation system, which was shelved due to major challenges
they face, such as problems which she outlined in her presentation: included information technology
source requirements, hardware and persons to devote time in managing data systems from municipal
or city levels. Another effort of the IACVAWC was to harmonize the collection forms used by major
service providers like PNP, DWSWD, NBI, and DOJ. Ms. Dumlao then proceeded to share insights on
the difficulty of harmonizing VAW data.
The main speaker for the third online session was Dr. Nimfa Ogena, Secretary-General of the
Asian Population Association and Professor of Demography at the UPPI. Her discussion was focused
on the essentiality of VAW and migration data, and the objective to inform evidence-based policy and
program development, as well as to generate statistics needed for the monitoring of SDG indicators
and international commitments.
The gaps which emerged from the presentation and discussions during the third session were:
• Aside from developing interventions to protect OFWs, relevant agencies and institutions
should also cover the issues and concerns of internal migrant workers and reinforce the
development of protocols in handling administrative data for VAW victims among this
population.
• National and regional level administrative data shall be necessary to complete the picture
of VAWMW, which must include the undocumented migrant worker.
• The employment of both quantitative and qualitative research
• Practicing ethics in data collection, human rights, and data security
• Reinforcing trainings of front liners focusing on ethical data collection, management and
storage, data confidentiality, and data analysis.
• Consistent generation of evidence-based disaggregated indicators for monitoring
international commitments and programs.
The full documentation report covering all the sessions of the online training-consultation series may
be found in Appendix A.

Methodology of the Sessions
Each session featured speakers, who are experts in fields related to the subtheme for the day’s
session, to share with the participants some insights on administrative data on gender-based violence
on women migrant works vis-à-vis the current schemes and implementation practices by both
government, non-government agencies and organizations in the country with regards to such data.
Moreover, each session also gave time for a few (two to three per day) chosen participants to
briefly share relevant experiences during a plenary session. These unique experiences included those
which they have encountered while working on official business related to a VAWMW case or while
they were personally going through the processes of the agencies and organizations. Finally, a
question-and-answer session to clarify and discuss topics presented during the online meetings
ensued. The synthesis of the activity was overseen by the national consultant.
The detailed programme for each of the sessions may be found in Appendix A of the report.
Participants
Each session had, on average, approximately 50 participants comprised of representatives
from various government agencies and non-government organizations. A total of 78 individuals from
37 various agencies / organizations attended the sessions. Below is a table summarizing the number
of individual attendees as well as the number of represented agencies / organizations. A full list of the
attendees may be found in Appendix B of the report.
# of Attendees
(Individual)
# of Represented
Offices
National Agencies 43 15
Embassies / Consulates 19 10
Local Government Units 6 4
Civil Society Organizations 10 8
Total 78 37
Preliminary Survey
Each participant was asked to answer a survey which would reveal the current situation of
data collection, storage, and management in their respective agencies and organizations. Preliminary
analysis of the survey results shows that while most agencies/organizations have a scheme or process
flow in place to either assist victims of VAW or gather data related to such cases, most of the
processes/ schemes are not tailored to gather data specifically about migrant women workers.

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The following are the results of the Preliminary Survey:
• Intake sheets for all cases related to violence against women in general are currently used.
• Most of the agencies and organizations only have 1-3 people assigned to the
team/committee/department/section of that agency in charge of handling cases
involving VAWMW or gender-based violence
• Almost half of the personnel do not undergo training for data management nor data
analysis.
• Most of the concerned agencies and offices each faces challenges due to a lack of general
guidelines in data collection.
• As a result, each agency collects different data from each case and would potentially
subject the survivors to unnecessary repeated questioning by the various agencies.
Further details as well as the results of the survey may be found in Appendix B of this report.
Pre-Test and Post-Test
To further quantify the perception of the representatives of the responding agencies /
organizations, a short survey on their beliefs on the current state of administrative data on VAWMW
was conducted as a pre-test at the start of the first session and a post-test at the end of the third
session. Out of the 78 total attendees, 33 of them answered the pre-test while 25 answered the post-
test. However, only 12 of these respondents have answered both pre-test and post-test.
Out of the eight (8) statements provided, in which the respondents were asked to choose
whether they agree or disagree to the statements, a change in perception (from agree to disagree or
vice versa) was observed in all questions. This, however, may be attributed to the change in sample
size. On the other hand, when only looking at the results of the 12 respondents who answered both
tests, ten (10) of them have change perceptions in some of the questions while two (2) of them have
answered consistently in all questions in both tests. Upon further observation, the change in
perception of the ten participants was seen to be isolated to only three (3) out of the eight statements
provided.
The detailed results for the pre-test and post-test may be found in Appendix C.
Conclusion and Recommendations
We must view our work of harmonization of administrative data from multiple sources, in
diverse contexts and levels, from the standpoint of the larger agenda of transforming the current dire
situation of Filipino women migrant workers. This will push us to move seriously towards that
direction. Data harmonization shall be seen not only as a technical fix, but more important, as a
transformative thread which will influence policy, and action to implement policy. All these allows
moving towards changing the situation of women migrant workers, specifically, eradicating the
violence they experience.
At the core of our work is to bear in mind that there are already several legal instruments crafted
during the past decades which demand that this happen. i.e. Republic Act No. 9262 (Anti-VAWC Act of
2004), Republic Act No. 10364 (Expanded Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2012) Section 13 of RA
10022 which speaks about Migrant Data, ASEAN Consensus on the Protection and Promotion of the
Rights of Migrant Workers, among others, are existing. The sense of urgency to move in the direction

of data harmonization of VAWMW cannot be overemphasized. The mandate to implement a
monitoring and documentation system must be highlighted and made visible to the agencies
concerned. Up to this moment, policies on regular reporting of VAWMW related efforts and services
is to take place across the multiple sources of data in agencies. Work towards developing a
standardized gender responsive documentation system of VAWMW can snowball once the necessary
steps are in in motion. The key word in harmonization is consensus. Consensus on operational
definitions, and consensus of the boundaries of the minimum data which need to be mined from the
administrative data sources and organized. As reiterated by the resource persons in the online
meetings, a unified framework could evolve naturally once this consensus building process should take
place.
Specific steps decided by various agencies are the finalization of standardized intake forms,
utilization of client codes and incident numbers, orientation and reinforcement of data sharing
agreements, flow, and protocols; and issuance of a resolution to standardize intake forms and user
guides. A more advanced goal as reiterated in the online meetings is to develop an efficient e-central
database system. In sum, the inputs and exchanges of resource persons, participants from various
agencies during the three online meetings on the key issues, gaps and recommendations to address
these gaps translates into (1) A robust and reliable database to collect, transmit, store and process
data on VAWMW (2) Necessary tools, templates and guidelines for VAWMW data management and
quality assurance, underlining the primacy of ethics and confidentiality (3) Knowledge products for
various entities, i.e. various agencies and LGUs such as manuals with common guidelines. (4) conduct
of training for involved agencies (5) installation of a functional and continuous community feedback
mechanisms.

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APPENDIX A:
Full Documentation Report for the Sessions of the Online Training-Consultation cum
Action Planning Meetings
Online Training Webinar on Gender-Based Violence on Women Migrant Workers:
Session 1: Models in Data Management Systems
Date: 5 March 2021
Time: 2:00 - 4:00 PM (PST)
Location: online via Zoom
The webinar was organized as part of the Spotlight Initiative, which was a collaboration among
the European Union (EU), the United Nations (UN) and government agencies to enhance the existing
migration governance framework across regions for the benefit of women migrant workers.
Insights on Administrative Data
Prior to the first session, a preliminary survey Existing Data Collection Schemes of Government
Agencies was opened until 3 March 2021. With the general objective of the webinar series to involve
different agencies in the Philippines in the integration and improvement of data on violence against
women migrant workers, the survey was conducted to gain more insights from the respondents slated
to join the online sessions.
The program commenced under the lead of UN Women National Consultant on VAW
Administrative Data and UP Diliman College of Social Work and Community Development (CSWCD)
Prof. Roselle Leah Rivera. The welcoming remarks was delivered by the Philippine Commission on
Women (PCW) Executive Director Atty. Kristine Yuzon-Chaves.
“Violence against women is a great violation of all women’s rights and fundamental freedoms.
It manifests the deep-seated discrimination and gender inequality and continues to be one of the
country’s perennial social problems”, delineated Atty. Yuzon-Chaves, “Violence and threats of violence
can be experienced by any woman of any age, skin color, gender identity, ethnicity, religion, ability,
economic and social status.” She also conveyed that VAW can be experienced at home, in the
workplace and even in public spaces.
She indicated that UN Women Asia-Pacific had initiated the discussion on VAWG data
collection and use, with recommendations on how to systematically improve data collection,
consolidation, and management on VAW administrative data. This led to the joint efforts of UN
Women and PCW to connect and convene the different data collection bodies of VAW and migration.
As an introduction to the situation of women and the issue of GBV, UN Women National
Project Officer Ms. Charisse Jordan discussed the objectives and overview of the Spotlight Initiative
and the Safe and Fair Project.

“Even in the time of pandemic, we have seen the height of women being at the risk of VAW or
GBV. We emphasize that equal access to essential services without barriers should be made to all
women, especially women migrant workers”, she stated.
There is an influx of women migrant workers, and the Spotlight Initiative has a priority of
ending VAWG in order to ensure safe and fair labor migration for women in Asia-Pacific region. Ms.
Jordan shared that the project aims to substantiate gender-sensitive governance frameworks and
reflect these on policies and programs that fully protect women migrant workers wherever region they
are located in. The Safe and Fair Project further plans to produce coordinated responsive quality
services and to improve the data, knowledge and attitudes on the rights and contributions of women
migrant workers.
By solidifying data collection and management and enhancing governance in labor migration,
there should be a transformation of vulnerabilities among women migrant workers to their
empowerment.
As UN Women Consultant on Technical Briefs on Coordination Mechanisms on VAW and
Migration, Directory of Services, and Policy Recommendation, Ms. Nancy Parreño clarified how
coordinated services and documentation contributed to seeking ways to address VAW against OFWs.
She cited that migration organizations and published information are vital references for research on
gender-based violence that women OFWs experience.
“In this regard, we would look at organizations focused on migration for this information. A
cursory survey of published information about this is trickier. Gender disaggregated migration data is
available, and we have statistics on female OFWS occupations, sectors they are centered in, and who
were repatriated”, she stated.
She reiterated that the amount of published data does not reflect the actual cases of VAW,
since cases that are often reported are physical and sexual violence. Moreover, there are forms of
VAW against OFWs that are less overt, specifically psychological, and economic violence, which
happen more frequently and have a deeper impact on survivors.
An example of such phenomenon would be instances of female OFWs that are unable to save
enough money for their return to the Philippines, or for reintegrating into a new environment or
community that plays a huge part in their survival in a foreign country. Ms. Parreño explained that the
cause of this would be the irresponsible spending of remittances by the husbands or intimate partners
of these women.
She raised the query on whether such occurrences should be documented as forms of VAW,
and if these are categorized accordingly as an issue related to migration. With 50% of OFWs being
women, it is critical to address the problem of underreporting and ambiguous case reports with
understanding on the intersection of VAW and overseas labor migration. Prof. Parreño highlighted
that there was focus needed not only on the alarming prevalence of VAWMW cases, but also the
number of survivors who were able to access the services of government agencies or non-government
organizations (NGOs).
This by itself is an important reflection on the interface on migration, the service providers,
and to what extent systems are able to track VAW against OFWs in order to enhance interventions on
issues. Analyzing the vulnerability of women OFWs lead to the “push factors” that influence or force

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them to seek opportunities abroad, such as discrimination, limited employment, and lack of
compensation in existing jobs.
She furthered that violence against sexual and gender minorities are not documented,
therefore the systemic violation of their human rights is not even visible. Transgender victims of abuse
are most likely misgendered and are identified as either male or female on records.
Following this, Prof. Rivera presented the results of the preliminary survey and consolidated
the findings on how data is collected, stored and managed by government agencies. She included that
information and context of the survivors and their families depends on the case. The question on
obtaining data at a one-time event or through the conduct of follow-ups should also be reviewed.
From the survey, there are training on data collection conducted among agencies and
government offices that primarily focus on data management and analysis, directing processes to
become more sensitive to VAW survivors, and the discussion of ethics and confidentiality principles.
Challenges that practitioners and agencies must overcome focus on concerns such as the lack
of guidelines in data collection, safety of the survivor, language barriers, reluctance of survivors to
reveal or report information, lack of references or tools for comprehensive data gathering, and
minimal or poor supervision of LGUs.
Contextualizing Data through Experiences
For enriching of knowledge on data collection and management systems on VAW, the panel
composed of PNP Women and Children Protection Center Anti-VAWC Division Chief PCol. Joy Tomboc,
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) Philippine Consulate General Attaché Ms. Lhyndzie
Anne Orozco, and Muntinlupa City Government Saklolo at Gabay ng Ina at Pamilya (SAGIP) Center
Social Worker IV Ms. Adelfa De Guzman shared the conditions and practices of their respective offices
in response to GBV issues, administration, and data management systems.
PCol. Tomboc stated that the PNP employs the use of their Crime Information Reporting and
Analysis System (CIRAS), which serves as an online portal that collects and electronically stores
information that the public reports about crime incidents. An assigned Duty Police Officer
accomplishes the CIRAS and the saved information is reviewed by the complainant and Duty
Investigator, and this document shall be used as a reference accessible to the complainant as well.
She noted that all sectors or groups of women experiencing VAW are encompassed by the
system. “The strong elements of the system is that it is organized”, she included, “We are able to
generate the requirements as requested by the involved unit or parties”. In other events, investigators
that provide access to a particular case are not able to share this information to all personnel or other
professionals. Meanwhile, there is not enough classification on LGBTQ and the type of disability of
PWDs. In cases of VAW, the system does not specify whether the abuse has been done by the victim’s
intimate partner.
As the next panel speaker, Ms. Orozco described how recorded cases on Filipina OFWs in Hong
Kong are handled. “Filipino domestic workers are usually the breadwinners of their families and send
most of their salaries back home to the Philippines. Most of their rights are generally respected, and
that there are generally low cases of VAW in Hong Kong among Filipina domestic workers compared

to other regions”, she described. In sum, it is observed that Filipina OFWs in Hong Kong enjoy better
working conditions such as higher salaries and greater access to communication facilities.
Ms. Orozco shared that for the context of Hong Kong SAR, there is no separate form for VAW
during instances where Filipinos seek assistance from the consulate. Involved officers ask if the victim
wishes to charge the offender (who is usually the employer), but mostly, many victims decide to
withdraw their complaints because these kinds of cases lead them to losing their jobs. If they choose
to push charges, the officer accompanies the victims to the police and hospital and ensures that they
have legal representation.
The judicial system in Hong Kong is more efficient compared to cases in other regions. Due to
protests and other political developments, there have been backlog cases for up to one year. During
the period of investigation on their cases and reports, victims are not allowed to return to work.
Sometimes, victims refuse to write formal reports to authorities due to fear of loss of employment or
due to emotional torture from their employers. For those who formally complain, they often decide
to transfer to other jobs for the meantime, in response to the slow progress in their cases.
On the other hand, Ms. De Guzman highlighted that there is a designated place for the
interview without disruptions. This ensures the safety and comfort of the VAW survivor as well as
privacy and confidentiality related to the information she chooses to disclose. They also ensure that
all interventions are done in compliance to health protocols, and that skilled professionals and social
workers use tools to collect and manage data.
“When it comes to challenges, we need to review our intake forms so that they are in line with
newer policies and laws such as the RA 11313 or the Safe Spaces Act”, Ms. De Guzman added. “The
intake form only talks about the women, the abuse, presented issues and the initial interventions
provided. There are no deeper issues included, especially the relationship with the spouse or intimate
partner or decision-making at home”.
She mentioned that as they work as a team such as the VAWC desk in the barangay -- the
police, medical team, and legal team -- their collected and stored data has the tendency to become
bloated because they do not have a central information management system and they separately
submit reports. Recently, there are improvements made in the city government to consolidate and
coordinate their systems on data collection.
Strategies on Data Management
For the focus of the webinar, University of San Agustin Iloilo CFI Director Dr. Romulo De Castro,
trained in data science, lectured on models for data management systems and their application for
VAW administration data. He also brought up that data collection systems indeed overlook concerns
of sexual and gender minorities. He discussed toolkits such as informatics tools, clinical research, and
patient data, and how these can be applied to the case of consolidating data on VAW cases against
women migrant workers.
Dr. De Castro presented that the goals of CFI focus on the collection of good quality data and
performing responsive analyses. This involves the development and deployment of informatics
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comprehensive trainings for informatics workers. He reiterated that for data stewardship, CFI
promotes fairness, benefit, openness, and reliability so that the exchange and treatment of data
employ inclusion, experimentation, accountability, and impact.
Dr. De Castro also expressed that messaging between the service providers or agencies and
victims of VAW needs to improve, since women are not able to seek or obtain assistance and other
interventions especially due to pandemic issues. These issues are magnified, and vulnerabilities
become even more pronounced.
“Even if campaigns are pushed through, you need to collect data and store them in order to
evaluate them”, Dr. De Castro advised. “This includes what you’ve done, and evidence that your
campaigns are effective”. Without evidence, he highlighted, all the work may be for nothing.
He also shared data management models that the CFI employed, such as COVID-19 Patient
Data Consortium as seen in patient registry among hospitals that disambiguates, aggregates, and
improves data and its quality so that these can be presented to researchers at the same time keep the
data secure.
“The actual Patient Registry has User Rights Management which means we can control who
can see the data”, affirmed Dr. De Castro. “There is also a Record Audit Trail to know what happens to
the data so we can easily conduct data forensics with this setup”.
Consequently, other models Dr. De Castro outlined were the Mental Health Information
System (MHIS), which is mandated by law and is built to be inter-operable among agencies and health
and research institutions, and the Iloilo City COVID=19 Information System.
“To make transitions, we need health data workers that know how to handle data. When you
think about capacity building, ensure that your domain experts have data science capability”, Dr. De
Castro shared. Infrastructure support is vital, as well as the transition strategy, and how participants
move toward a unified data landscape regarding GBV and VAWMW.
Consolidation
During the open forum, Ms. Jordan stressed that administrative data constitutes the number
of services provided to women migrant workers, and UN Women has focused on quality multisectoral
service provision to women OFWs that have experienced violence or abuse. These focus on
coordination, health, police and justice, social services. Other basic facilities should be made accessible
and available, as well as consider interpretation and language, cultural sensitivity, and data collection
and confidentiality.
After discussing questions from the webinar attendees, the closing remarks was delivered by
Philippine Commission on Women (PCW) Policy Development and Advocacy Division Chief Ms. Anette
Estrera-Baleda. She provided some insights on initiatives on data generation related to VAW against
women migrant workers and how PCW works to improve these. “As secretariat to IACVAWC, we have
been working towards coming up with a harmonized data collection system on VAW of migrant women
which are really important in pushing for policies and addressing issues on women,” she conveyed.
The succeeding online training Webinar on Violence against Women Migrant Workers is
scheduled for 12 March 2021, with a focus on ethics and confidentiality in data governance.

Programme of Activities for the First Session of the Online Training-Consultation cum Action
Planning Meetings
Session 1: Models in Data Management Systems
(Mar. 05, 2021)
2:00 – 2:10 PM Welcome Atty. Kristine E. Yuzon Chavez
2:10 – 2:20 PM Objectives of the Meeting Prof. Roselle Leah K. Rivera
2:20 – 2:30 PM
The Whole Picture of the Puzzle – Philippine SAF
Program
What is happening?
What has been achieved in 2020?
Ms. Charisse M. Jordan
Prof. Nancy E. Parreño
2:30 – 2:40 PM Open Forum
2:40 – 2:50 PM
Presentation of Situation of Data Collection,
Storage, and Management
Prof. Roselle Leah K. Rivera
2:50 – 3:10 PM Panel: Case Experiences
PCol. Joy E. Tomboc
Ms. Lhyndzie Anne M. Orozco
Ms. Adel R. De Guzman
3:20 – 3:40 PM Models in Data Management Dr. Romulo de Castro
3:50 – 4:00 PM Synthesis and Next Steps Prof. Roselle Leah K. Rivera

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Quote Cards of the Speakers and Sharers of the First Session of the Online Training-
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Session 2: Data Governance: Ethics and Confidentiality
Date: 12 March 2021
Time: 2:00 - 4:00 PM (PST)
The webinar was organized as part of the Spotlight Initiative, which was a collaboration among
the European Union (EU), the United Nations (UN) and government agencies to enhance the existing
migration governance framework across regions for the benefit of women migrant workers. To further
contextualize the framework, the key agencies involved are the Philippine Commission on Women
(PCW), the Commission on Human Rights Gender Equality and Women’s Rights Center (CHR-GEWHRC)
and International Obligations Monitoring Division, and the Philippine Statistics Authority: Interagency
Committee on Gender Statistics and Interagency Committee on Migration Statistics.
To commence the meeting, UN Women National Consultant on VAW Administrative Data
Roselle Leah Rivera presented the objectives and flow of the meeting. Primarily, the on line sessions
aimed to bring about the following:
(1) Reinforcement of the conduct of analysis, collection, integration and management of VAW
and migration administrative data;
(2) Development of the capacity of key agencies in charge of analysis and collection of VAW and
migrant administrative data with the engagement of other significant stakeholders; and
(3) Formulation and strengthening of the action plan on collection, consolidation, management,
and harmonization of VAW and migration administrative data.
Prof. Rivera also provided a summary of last week’s session, which focused on Models in Data
Management Systems. She highlighted the goals of the proposed data management systems in
employing data to espouse equitable and just policies, and to sustain ethical and responsible practices
in data sourcing, sharing and implementation.
From last week’s lecture of Dr. Romulo De Castro on Models in Data Management Systems,
Prof. Rivera reiterated the principles of fairness, benefits, openness, and reliability. She also shared
the advocacies on data management systems, which are inclusion, experimentation, accountability,
and substantive impact.
In linking data management systems with data governance on VAW and migrant
administrative data, Prof. Rivera cited that this integration included training of domain experts and
data workers, strengthening transition strategies, harmonizing data through data curation and
definition of terms, and centralizing the VAW Referral System.
As a prelude to the main presentation for the session, Prof. Rivera maintained that
underreporting of VAW is a concern regarding administrative data. Frontline services are unable to
record reports of VAW and incidents of domestic violence. The detriment of the lack in services
discourage women from making official reports and push them to return to their homes where the
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“Administrative data are routinely or automatically collected by people that provide service,
such as the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). These data come from cases identified and capture
information on anyone accessing these services”, Prof. Rivera described. She included that compared
to this, VAW prevalence data originate from population-based surveys on representative sample
populations across the country that offer baseline information that support global indicators.
Prof. Rivera conveyed that data from official sources report almost half of the 10 million
intraASEAN migrant workers are women, and from the 5.3 million Philippine nationals abroad in 2019,
56.3% were women. While labor migration is a way for women to contribute to the national economy
and to sustain their families and communities, the jobs offered to women migrant workers are within
the informal sector, mostly low and medium-skilled jobs, and offer low wages. According to prof.
Rivera, campaigns for women worker’s rights have labelled the jobs which migrant women accept to
sacrifice for their families back home -- as 3D— dirty, dangerous, and sadly sometimes, demeaning.
Their vulnerability stems from debt, financial hardships and dependency to recruitment fees and
migration expenses.
With these ongoing problems, it is vital to build understanding on help-seeking behavior,
improve existing services and protection through establishing evidence-based laws, policies, and
programs, and to assess how eVAW policies are being implemented.
Ethics and Confidentiality in Data Governance
As introduction to the lecture, sociologist and demographer from the University of the
Philippines Population Institute Dr. Josefina Natividad mentioned important documents in ethics
research that involved the participation of human subjects. These primary references serve as guides
for the conduct of human research, and these cover practitioners on VAW prevalence, and key agents
such as councilors, embassy officers, health professionals and the police.
The 1979 Belmont Report supplied a blueprint that encompasses the protection of human
subjects of research through ethics. Dr. Natividad pointed how practice and research are different,
with the former working to improve wellbeing of an individual with expected results, and the latter
developing general knowledge through hypothesizing and drawing conclusions. With this, the Belmont
Report covers the principles of respect for persons, beneficence, and justice.
Dr. Natividad explained that the first, respect for persons, can be applied by gaining the
informed consent of human participants. It is important that the research participant voluntarily
enjoins in the research upon comprehending complete information on the conduct of the study.
Beneficence sees that no harm is done, and the welfare of the individual is ensured. This is
applied in research by assessing risks and benefits and maintaining confidentiality and privacy of the
participant. On the other hand, justice is seen in the implementation of research when there is an
equitable selection of participants, and there is insurance that no marginalized or vulnerable groups
of people are being exploited for the sake of research.
It is also important to distinguish between carrying out research and gathering figures for the
purpose of reporting. Dr. Natividad stated that these are both critical in getting a sense of the picture
of VAW and migration. She summed that administrative data originate from administrative systems
and involve fulfilment of services. These can be “large, complex and multi-dimensional and are

collected from a target sample or population,” she stated. She also provided sources of administrative
data on VAW and migrant women, including Philippine embassies and consulates, the Philippine
Overseas Employment Administration (POEA), and the Overseas Workers Welfare Association
(OWWA).
Dr. Natividad signified the ethical considerations in data management, which focused on
protecting the privacy and preserving the confidentiality of vulnerable sources of data and other
participants in the data set when issuing this information to data users. “There are be areas that need
to be clarified when using administrative data for research purposes, because it was not explicitly done
so and does not include rigors”, Dr. Natividad mentioned.
In administrative data analysis and data harmonization for sharing, sensitive information of
the victimized should be anonymized to the point that “the analyst cannot recognize the identities of
the people who disclosed these information”. With this, Dr. Natividad rehashed the core principles of
empathy and respect.
Expanding Discussion through Experiences
The panel invited to share case experiences were the following: CHR-CGEWHR Officer-in
Charge Atty. Krissi Shaffina Twyla Rubin, National Economic and Development Authority Senior
Economic and Development Specialist Mr. Yuri Leomo, and Second Secretary and Consult Head Mr.
Leandro Luiz Manantan from the Embassy of the Republic of the Philippines in Kuala Lumpur.
Atty. Rubin detailed the handling of case reports and management of data systems. Regional
directors and investigators are the initial persons that can access information. “Layer-by-layer data is
employed to protect data gathered from clients, including survivors”, she stated, “To protect identities,
only investigators and lawyers have access and layers of data that becomes available when you’re
assigned as investigator or gender profiler.”
“Investigation guidelines and protocols include protecting women’s data and ensuring
confidentiality as part of our gender guidelines,” Atty. Rubin added. “What the public sees is the sector
of the women, the description of the violence, and the region where it happened”.
For situationer reports, efforts are made to obtain informed consent from the sources of data.
In case there is none, accounts are either not included or are anonymized. “We conduct focus-group
discussions (FGDs) with women, starting with consent forms on how we are going to handle their data”,
Atty. Rubin shared. The work that they have done such as cases handled per region and how women
access justice is included in these reports. “There are more challenges in dealing with confidentiality
issues and a continuing process for us is to tighten our protocols on confidentiality and also to follow
data privacy requirements,” she concluded.
Mr. Leomo described VAW documentation and expressed how data collection should be
streamlined to maintain the welfare of victims. “With a singular data platform for collection of data
regarding VAW, victims do not need to recount their experience every data collection point,” he
maintained. This should also be applied in complementing child-responsive programs.
Upon asking local government units (LGUs) for their experience of the child reporting, children
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Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office (MSWDO), and in case of severity, to the police.
“That’s a problematic transaction, child would have to recount experience to every data collection entry
point,” Mr. Leomo indicated. “Not only will that take time away from schooling, but the child will be
reminded about the traumatic experience every time.” He stated that this kind of occurrences called
for greater data sharing amongst data collection agencies and anonymity of victims. “There are sources
from the MBHS, DSWD and PNP. It is very natural for data sources to have discrepancies due to
different entry points, but these can be harmonized.”.
For the handling of cases within the Assistance to Nationals Unit in the Philippine Embassy in
Kuala Lumpur, Mr. Manantan shared some experiences from his predecessors as he has just been
recently assigned to his position. “During lockdown this pandemic period, we have encountered
difficulties in bringing our services to victims of VAW in East Malaysia,” Mr. Manantan included, after
conveying that the embassy is in peninsular Malaysia. He noted how the issue of consent is
complicated especially for victims that are minors, and there are times when the welfare attaché
would have to decide how to forward the case when the parents of the victim would refuse to file a
report. Even with allegations of abuse or incident reports, the victim may decide against being
repatriated or rescued.
“For clients who do not have families or next of kin who can speak on their behalf, we always
have to find which information is okay to disclose with the agent. We continually ask them that we are
taking over and thank them for relying information,” Mr. Mantantan added. “We secure consent
before we take any action. We are wary of any persons who approach the embassy and speak on their
behalf to request for rescue or repatriation, and when the subject does not want that assistance,” Mr.
Manantan provided. “If there is no consent to a course of action, there will be no intervention from the
embassy.”
Integration of Ethics and VAWG
During one of the open discussions as springboard to the conclusion of the session, some key
participants contributed to how data can be harmonized across different agencies.
“We also have to consider the legal aspects of data governance - in particular the limitations
set by the Data Privacy Act on data subjects, privilege information, and sensitive personal information”,
Atty. Francis de Guzman from POEA shared. “Laws form part of the general ethical framework, as a
source of guidelines not only for capture and processing of data, more so for data sharing - considering
the multi-faceted aspects of VAW data (confidentiality, privilege etc.).”
Following this, Women’s Legal and Human Rights Bureau Board Member Ms. Luz Lopez
Rodriguez led the discussion regarding the application of ethics and confidentiality in dealing with
VAWG cases. She maintained that respect for ethical and safety considerations should reflect on how
data is collected, as this would greatly impact on stigmatization, ostracism, retaliation, further violence
and even death to the VAWG survivors. If the survivor is not sure that their privacy will be protected,
they may not proceed to report, request help, or seek protection against ongoing or past abuse. Ms.
Rodriguez continued that lack of security in data collection practices can expose service providers and
interviewers to risk. From her experience, she emphasized that there should be “community work in
between consulting work in the international and national level”, and that policies should be examined
from the ground.

There may be instances wherein the crime is immediately opened to the public without
caution or ethical concerns. “Survivors can have persisting threats from perpetrators or from those
interested in their case,” Ms. Rodriguez stressed. “Ensure first that the victims or informants are
secured.” She noted that there should be support facilities such as temporary shelters or unknown
places that perpetrators or disruptors cannot access, so that the victims can decide clearly if they
want to proceed, and how to heal from their wounds. This is in line with urgent cases wherein
victims have run away from violators without bringing any of their belongings.
“Even an empowered woman cannot immediately decide how to process for themselves if they
can come out or not. Victims need to be given space to process if they come out or not, because they
are unsure of what happened,” Ms. Rodriguez conveyed. There are many factors that influence
whether one should seek for help, especially battered women that have no economic support. “We
encourage them to come out as a victim and become a survivor, for these events to help other women
to prevent this from happening to others,” she indicated.
There are protocols in handling data, but there are municipal offices and village communities
that do not have such facilities or training to protect their data. In other events, manuals, toolkits, or
operational systems might not have been integrated or maintained in remote government levels.
Therefore, there is a need to refresh training and performance systems and to audit inter-agencies on
the maintenance of protocols and mechanisms.
In the closing of the second session, Prof. Rivera provided two questions for the participants
to ponder on:
1) What are the risks of collecting data on violence among OFWs?
2) What should be done to eliminate/mitigate these risks?
The third and last session titled “Violence against Women and Migrant Data: Issues, Challenges
and Directions” will be held on 19 March 2021, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, via Zoom.

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Programme of Activities for the Second Session of the Online Training-Consultation cum
Session 2: Data Governance: Ethics and Confidentiality
(Mar. 12, 2021)
2:00 – 2:10 PM Welcome Ms. Charisse M. Jordan
2:10 – 2:20 PM Objectives of the Session Prof. Roselle Leah K. Rivera
2:20 – 2:30 PM
VAW Administrative Data and Migration:
Intersections, Improvements, and
Collaborations
Atty. Krissi Shafinna Twyla A.
Rubin
Mr. Yuri Leomo
Mr. Leandro Luiz S. Manantan
2:55 – 3:35 PM Data Governance: Ethics and Confidentiality
Dr. Josefina Natividad
Ms. Luz Lopez Rodriguez
3:50 – 4:00 PM Synthesis and Next Steps Prof. Roselle Leah K. Rivera

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Session 3: Violence against Women and Migrant Data: Issues, Challenges and Directions
Date: 19 March 2021
Time: 2:00 - 4:00 PM (PST)
The coordinated efforts of the European Union (EU), the United Nations (UN) and government
agencies to enhance the existing migration governance framework across regions for the benefit of
women migrant workers brought about the Spotlight Initiative. As a product of this, the three-part
webinar aims to collate experiences and insights from the Philippine Commission on Women (PCW),
the Commission on Human Rights Gender Equality and Women’s Rights Center (CHR-GEWHRC),
International Obligations Monitoring Division, Philippine Statistics Authority: Interagency Committee
on Gender Statistics and Interagency Committee on Migration Statistics, and other key agencies.
UN Women Consultant on VAW Administrative Data Prof. Roselle Leah Rivera facilitated the
session, starting by reviewing the envisioned outcome of the series. The main points are the following:
(1) Strengthening how analysis, collection, integration and management of VAW and migration
administrative data are being done;
(2) Training key agencies in charge of analysis and collection of VAW and migrant administrative data with
the participation of stakeholders; and
(3) Formulation action plans or proposing improved systems on collection, consolidation, management,
and harmonization of VAW and migration administrative data.
As this session marks the conclusion of the training webinar, Prof. Rivera integrated concepts
and discussions from the previous meetings. She likewise provided some questions to ponder on
regarding measures and plans that the participants might have in line with the situation of women and
data management systems. The following points summarize the highlights of the lecture:
(1) The first step is understanding the purpose and defining which types of data are needed;
(2) The fact that VAW administrative data is often not analyzed nor utilized enough is a
concerning matter, since this can limit variables, disaggregation, services and referrals, reports
of VAW, and recognition of patterns;
(3) Disaggregation of data gives notice to marginalized groups of women, including migrant
workers, minor ethnic groups, the young or elderly, and geographic locations; and
(4) VAW specialists should be the ones to interpret VAW administrative data so that the needs of
the survivors are met, services are improved, and allocation and policies are carefully planned
and implemented.
Directories and Services
Ms. Nancy Parreño, UN Women National Consultant on Technical Briefs on Coordination
Mechanisms on VAW and Migration, Directory of Services, and Policy Recommendation delivered a
presentation on the services directory focusing on VAW and migrant workers in ASEAN. “I am currently

working with the UN Women on producing a technical brief on coordination and referral systems on
VAW OFWs or women migrants,” shared Ms. Parreño, “Part of my output is to compile directory of
government and non-government agencies providing direct services to OFW survivors of VAW in all
stages of the migration cycles.” She explained that the directory includes all forms of VAW that
happens starting predeparture, until the settlement through the intervention of service providers.
Direct services followed the 16 essentials for quality multisectoral service provision to women
migrant workers subject to violence.
“The directory entries are organized based on whether they are able to provide relevant and
significant services, such as assistance with regard to police and justice, health, social welfare (focused
on psycho-social support services and case management), ” Professor Parreño expounded. Philippine
embassies and consulates were also included in the directory because they are the focal agency for
issues of migrant women workers while these workers are employed or staying abroad. While some
services are based in the Philippines, they can be extended to OFWs abroad through digital technology,
as well as serve as a link to the families of OFWs through embassies and government agencies.
“From our experience, it is not very difficult to compile a list of agencies working on VAW
women migrants particularly here in the PH, we have a well-established system for managing cases in
the country, as well as systems managing OFW issues in general.” She presented the GBV Referral
system, which shows the agencies are involved in addressing and managing cases of VAW if it
happened in the Philippines. She also showed the functions of government agencies, which include
the basic assistance to nationals (ATN) and legal services of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA),
legal services, labor services from the Department of Labor and Employment and the Overseas
Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), and the health services of the Department of Health (DOH)
or Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth).
“By virtue of the Magna Carta for Women, they are also expected to have a functional
mechanism for gender mainstreaming which will ensure a continuous process of developing or
enhancing its processes towards realizing gender equality within their workspaces,” Ms. Parreño
included. “This includes the embassies, the consulates, and the support here in the PH and through the
services they provide in addressing VAW will be part of that gender mainstreaming.”
Specific national agencies were also listed in the directory interagency bodies because they
coordinate with their agencies that provide direct services to OFW even if the interagency is not a
direct service provider. “We have also provided mental health services as listed in the directory of the
national center for mental health. These are not specific to OFWs. Health service is neutral, and they
can serve as an initial point for referral”, she added.
Migrant Resource Centers (MRCs) were cited as part of the directory under social welfare.
Working under some local government units, these MRCs provide information on overseas labor
opportunities and listings of accredited recruitment agencies. Ms. Parreño indicated that referral and
linkage services connect the network of agencies working on OFW concerns.
She also furthered that VAW service providers may be nuanced about their interventions and
focus to needs of OFWs, therefore specialized knowledge of case management on OFW issues is
critical. “On service coordination and referral pathway, MRCs strengthen the link between local level
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global to local nature of OFW issues, with the layer of VAW, which is a local issue but for OFWs, it
becomes more highlighted as global and national issue.”
Following this, Prof. Rivera mentioned that in the previous session, Women’s Legal and Human
Rights Bureau Board Member Ms. Luz Lopez Rodriguez spoke about the connection between
international and community-based agencies, and how laws and policies play out in the community
level. She also emphasized the importance of gender-sensitive services, confidentiality, and that there
is more attention to address the specific needs of migrant women.
National Project Officer of the Safe and Fair Programme for UN Women Ms. Charisse Jordan
indicated that they are hoping that the directory is integrated into protocols or adopted by different
government agencies and support groups for women migrant organizations. Upon integration, the
directory of services will be optimized as a resource for providing services and coordinating for women
migrant workers.
To support this, Prof. Rivera reiterated that not only a referral system but coordinated services
with quality of care could improve the functionality of these interventions. “We identify it as crucial in
terms of quality of care, not just interface or not just the existence of services but how are they able to
respond to unique needs, especially those experiencing violence,” agreed Prof. Rivera.
Ms. Jordan also reintroduced the “Babaeng BiyaHero” webpage, one of the projects under the
Spotlight Initiative, which aims to provide helplines, OFW resources, welfare assistance for women
migrant workers, contact information of agencies, and ultimately, access to psychosocial services,
police assistance, referral services, and other assistance.
Anecdotes from the Panel
Director II of the Anti-illegal Recruitment Branch of the Philippine Overseas Employment
Administration (POEA) Atty. Francis Ron De Guzman shared data and statistics gathered on legal
assistances administered by POEA in 2020. He expressed that as a focal group for legal assistance, they
have basic data gathering for clients and practice the standard disaggregation of data according to
gender.
An estimate of 16,930 clients have sought their assistance in 2020, compared to 2019, when
the office had accommodated about 17,400 on-site clients. “While some government offices were
unable to continue specific mandates, we rolled assistance program online”, he maintained. These are
the points he shared on statistics gathered in 2020:
(1) About 58% of clients that sought legal assistance;
(2) Complaints on labor primarily conciliation contractual issues at 67% (Atty. De Guzman
explained that economic abuse should also be considered as GBV);
(3) Around 68% filed complaints against recruitment violation cases; and
(4) The clients for legal counseling that reached 70% were all women.
Atty. De Guzman noted that they have been active in using Facebook as a platform for
receiving complaints, and the number of people reporting through this medium reached 2,700. They
have been verified to respond within an hour.

With this, he moved on to discuss the challenges and issues their office had encountered. Due
to insufficient human resources within the legal services division, data gathering became very difficult.
As lawyers, they handle legal assistance, investigation surveillance and the prosecution of cases.
“Pagdating sa data gathering, when we talk and provide assistance to the workers, ticking off the
checklist of requirements for the information we take from them, still, much data has been missed, and
the whole picture is still not there,” he indicated. “The real picture is not captured and rarely goes
beyond disaggregated data.”
Another challenge was that a lot of the people approaching them are not documented, and
that they had to practice caution in accessing crucial information with the respect for data privacy.
Next challenge discussed was data segregation, since most complainants have vague profile pictures
and names, and the issues they bring up are general contractual issues. One solution would be using
Facebook to determine the percentage of overall male and female complainants, but there is no
segregation on which specific persons these are. This situation also proves to prevent deeper data
collection, especially on clarifying what types of GBV or VAW are being experienced by clients. “The
data is captured as quantity alone, in terms of numbers. I now ask the important question: what about
the quality of data? Is this there?”
“For industry partners we are focusing on domestic workers, who are admittedly household
service workers who are the most vulnerable because they are often the most abused. Not onsite alone,
but even while they are still here in the Philippines. In the modality ng recruitment, they are already
facing a semblance of gender-based violence,” Atty. De Guzman conveyed. “We hope with these series
of events, we can contribute to lessening of numbers of those abused”.
Atty. De Guzman also brought up the month-long activities that POEA is conducting. With the
theme “Migranteng Juana sa Panahon ng Pandemya: Protektado, Ligtas, Puno ng Pag-Asa”.
In response to this, Prof. Rivera gave appreciation that gender disaggregation of data is already
a step forward. “A heartening thought that in this forum, people are working with each other.
Moreover, we have a directory in coordinating closer in terms of tightening the quality of services and
raising it higher for different agencies to work together,” she supplemented.
The next speaker, IACVAWC Secretariat from PCW Ms. Prossy Dumlao, shared the efforts of the
inter-agency in harmonizing data collection on VAWC. She discussed that this is in line with Republic
Act No. 9262 (Anti-VAWC Act of 2004), with highlights on the following:
(1) mandate to implement a monitoring and documentation system and issue policies on
periodic reporting regarding VAWC-related efforts and services;
(2) maintaining a central database on VAWC; and
(3) working towards developing a standardized gender-responsive documentation system.
As early as 2004, PCW ventured into web-based VAW documentation system in an effort to
data harmonization and coordinating a system that increases accuracy, support prevalence data,
monitor and track resolving of cases, strengthening evidence-based implementation, and to have a
clearer grasp on the extend of VAWC. Ms. Dumlao gave a run-through on the timeline of programs
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different sites across the country in 2010 and 2012, making use of various data sources including
social and health workers, barangay officials, prosecutors and the police.
“The initiative of project was shelved due to major challenges such as problems on IT source
requirements, hardware and persons to devote time in managing data systems from municipal or city
levels”, Ms. Dumlao cited. “Moreover, models cannot be used in areas with little or no internet
connection.”
Patterned after the crime investigation and reporting system of PNP, the documentation system
required numerous resources. From here, the focus shifted to the reinventory of different data
collection forms used by major service providers like PNP, DWSWD, NBI, and DOJ. “We consolidated
common data elements and identified additional data fields in determining different circumstances of
VAW victims and survivors”, expounded Ms. Dumlao. This helped them develop the GAD intake form,
and conducted pilot runs through PNP in police departments all over the country.
A sample portion of the data field on migratory status of VAW victim-survivors with subdata
fields was shown. The field was set to determine if the respondent was a current or former OFW, or if
they were seeking employment abroad. Ms. Dumlao included that they are also thinking of including
data fields to specify in-migrants and out-migrants.
The challenges that IACVAWC reported included the following:
(1) respondents said that filling up the forms took much time;
(2) trainings were needed for intake officers regarding filling out forms and regarding provisions
of the law on VAW;
(3) reinforcement of terminologies, such as SOGIE, disability types, and migratory status had to
be explained prior to data collection;
(4) translation of forms to be understood by different localities;
(5) the need for consensus on the repository of data; and
(6) the need for a functioning, well-coordinated and integrated referral system.
“VAW data harmonization isn’t an easy task,” Ms. Dumlao stated. “There are different factors
or activities that have to be converged. VAWDH or the use of standard VAW intake form could only be
effective if referral systems are in place and functional, if victim survivors are aware of the different
services and facilities which they may avail, and the community particularly victim-survivor must know
where to go for help and where to avail this.”
With this, Ms. Dumlao enumerated the way forward agreed upon by the IACVAWC. Specific
steps decided were the finalization of standardized intake forms, utilization of client codes and
incident numbers, orientation and reinforcement of data sharing agreements, flow, and protocols; and
issuance of a resolution to standardize intake forms and user guides. A more advanced goal was to
develop an efficient e-central database system.
Prof. Rivera gave acknowledgement that most of the issues discussed are parallel and are
experienced on a broader scope. “Our work here is to put all of this together, decide how can these
move forward, and see it in terms of urgency,” she emphasized.

Focus on Data and Results
The main speaker for the webinar series was Dr. Nimfa Ogena, Secretary-General of the Asian
Population Association and Professor of Demography at the UP-Population Institute (UPPI). She had
also served as Chairperson for the Technical Working Group on Migration Statistics on the Technical
Committee on Population Housing under the National Statistics Coordination Board, and as
Chairperson of the Inter-Agency Committee on Migration Statistics under the Philippine Statistics
Authority (PSA). Her presentation was titled “VAW and Migration Data: Issues, Challenges and
Directions”.
She explored the essentiality of VAW and migration data, and the objectives to inform
evidence-based policy and program development, and to generate statistics needed for the
monitoring of SGD indicators and international commitments. The data she mentioned that VAW
encompasses are directed toward the persons experiencing GBV, its specific types and impact,
geographical distribution of cases, needed information and services, how these can be accessed, and
how the family, NGOs, government agencies and other stakeholders contribute.
Meanwhile, data on migration should cover who should be classified as migrants, prevalence
of these categories, geographical distribution, influences on migration, impacts of migration, what
services are needed and how these can be accessed, and how other stakeholders can collaborate to
address these issues.
The National Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) and National Migration Surveys (NMS)
were conducted nationwide among various sources in order to explore the interconnectivity of VAW
and migration, and administrative data. “Data collection from the administration level is critical, and
this is where cases are recorded and actual information and qualitative data are stored and
managed,” Dr. Ogena discussed.
“Data and services are collected in silos, sort of independent and yet we want to put them
together. There really is a need to develop a unified framework, identify concepts we want to
incorporate in the understanding of VAW and migration, and we need to make sure that those
collecting data will agree to this and incorporate them in data collection,” Dr. Ogena furthered. While
she acknowledged that UN Women does not recommend standardization, she shared that Filipinos
should not only understand concepts but there should be a commonality as to how to put the
framework in operation form and how to apply it to localities.
With hard work and collaboration throughout the years, the inter-agency committee has
achieved the following milestones:
(1) standardization of concepts and definitions regarding internal and international migration
statistics;
(2) formulation of an operational framework for recording OFWs and international migrants; and
(3) the conduct of the NMS, which used the Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI)
operations.
Dr. Ogena also informed the audience on the difference between OFWs from international
migrants, as explained on the website of PSA. Prior to sharing interpreted data and findings analysis

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on migration and VAW data, Dr. Ogena requested that these be only used amongst the participants as
there was still a data embargo on them. She explained the following patterns:
(1) Most inter-regional lifetime labor migration flows show movement toward Metro Manila and
Region IV;
(2) Most labor migrants during the first inter-regional from 2013 to 2018 are from the Bicol
Region and Region IX;
(3) The number of intra-regional migration streams from 2013 to 2018 are highest within Region
VII;
(4) From 2013-2018, most male and female lifetime migrants leave for Saudi Arabia, while most
male migrants have worked in Saudi Arabia and females in the United Arab Emirates;
(5) From 2013-2018, the least recorded number of male and female lifetime migrants leave for
Taiwan and Hong Kong respectively, while the least male and female migrants have worked in
Qatar and Taiwan respectively;
(6) Accordingly, female labor international and intra-regional migrants are more vulnerable to
exploitation by sex, while there is a higher prevalence of exploitation by sex for male labor
inter-regional migrants;
(7) Within the country, prevalence of labor exploitation by lifetime inter-regional migrants are
highest in Region IX and the least in Regions I, III and VI;
(8) Inter-regional migrants in the country experience labor exploitation the most in Region VIII,
and the least in Regions I, III, VI, XII, and XIII from 2013 to 2018;
(9) Based on the resulting data, exploitation towards male international migrant workers were
more pronounced, while female migrant workers in the country were the most exposed to
being forced to engage in sexual acts for favors or money;
(10)Regarding the restriction of movement and confinement, the prevalence was high for female
international migrant workers in terms of coerced transportation and work engagement, and
restrictions in communication with family or friends.
a. There were more female migrant workers in the country that experienced restrictions
in contacting family and friends; and
b. There were higher chances that male international and local migrant workers
experienced coerced transportation and work engagement and were constrained
from coming to and leaving work of their own will.
(11)There were more cases for female international migrant workers in terms of debt bondage,
and while the retention of passports and identity documents was prevalent for female
international and local migrant workers;
(12)Regarding work-related pressures, it was noted that male international migrant workers were
more exposed to different types of exploitative work-related pressures;
a. Male migrant workers in the country were more vulnerable to coerced work
engagements and pressured signing of contracts they did not understand; and
b. There were more cases of female local migrant workers entering work even though
provisions differed from agreed conditions and being forced in signing contracts
despite not wanting to.

She also remarked that VAW is not only a threat for international migrant workers since
internal migrants experience them as well. Both men and women are vulnerable to exploitation at
work, hence equal attention should be given to both.
Moreover, Dr. Ogena proposed the following interventions for administrative data on VAW
and migration data: (1) Employment of quantitative and qualitative research; (2)Practicing ethics in
data collection, human rights and data security; (3)Reinforcing trainings of front liners focusing on
ethical data collection, management and storage, data confidentiality, and data analysis; and (4)
Consistent generation of evidence-based disaggregated indicators for monitoring international
commitments and programs.
As a way forward, Dr. Ogena reiterated that a unified framework regarding VAW and migration
should be developed, and that data harmonization and collection should start from standardized
operational definitions of concepts. Likewise, there should be consensus on minimum information for
intake forms for VAW and migration data collection. “Unless there is no consensus, different agencies
that have different mandates will come up with different reports required of them. Basically, there has
to be an agreement of consensus on minimum data to be collected for VAW and migration if we want
a workable or ideal database that can be comparable and that can be compiled,” she maintained. She
also reminded the participants that the findings she shared are only for discussion purposes. Another
point she mentioned was that the data results were nationally represented, and these covered even
undocumented migrant workers.
From Prof. Rivera’s question on the sampling used, Dr. Ogena explained that the survey was
conducted all over the country, and data is representative at the national and regional level, and for
other cities as well. She added that a public use file of the national migration survey was already
available on the PSA website.
As the webinar series came to a conclusion, Ms. Jordan delivered the ways forward after the
three-part series. During the course of the webinar series, different inter-agency bodies that had
important roles for collaboration were identified. She also gave recognition to women’s non-
government organizations, and other key groups that are continuously working towards
empowerment of women, especially of women migrant workers.
Furthermore, Ms. Jordan emphasized the significance of a unified framework on definitions of
concepts and coverage on data systems. She also encouraged the participants to take a step forward
in addressing challenges that disconnect VAW and migration, and in ensuring that data systems
management can provide solutions to prevalent issues.
At the end of the session, Prof. Rivera reminded the participants that scheduled bilateral
meetings will take place starting May 2021.

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Programme of Activities for the Third Session of the Online Training-Consultation cum
Session 3: Violence Against Women and Migration: Issues, Challenges, Directions
(Mar. 19, 2021)
2:00 – 2:05 PM Welcome Ms. Charisse M. Jordan
2:05 – 2:25 PM Connecting the Dots Prof. Roselle Leah K. Rivera
2:25 – 2:45 PM
Presentation of Services Directory: Violence
Against Women Migrant Workers in ASEAN
Atty. Krissi Shafinna Twyla A.
Rubin
Mr. Yuri Leomo
Mr. Leandro Luiz S. Manantan
3:05 – 3:35 PM
Violence Against Women and Migrant Data:
Issues, Challenges, Directions
Dr. Josefina Natividad
Ms. Luz Lopez Rodriguez
3:45 – 4:00 PM Closing

Quote Cards of the Speakers and Sharers of the Third Session of the Online Training-

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Participants and their Represented Offices of the Online Training-Consultation cum Action
Planning Meetings
Represented Office Name of Representative
Session
1
Session
2
Session
3
NATIONAL
AGENCIES
Commission on Human Rights
Christa Balonkita ✓ ✓
Marijoy Liwag ✓ ✓ ✓
Patricia Sy ✓
Department of Foreign Affairs
Chen Kimberly M. Ladera ✓ ✓
Frances Louissa C. Cleofas ✓ ✓
Carlyn Monastrial ✓
Kevin Mark Gomez ✓ ✓
Shirley Mae Rico ✓
Department of Health
Maria Arlene Rivera ✓
Mica Porcioncula ✓
Department of Justice
Maria Luisa P. De Vera-
Olitoquit
✓ ✓
Marilyn Menguin ✓ ✓ ✓
Department of Social Welfare and
Development
Lucita J. Villanueva ✓
Sheena Mae Ramirez ✓ ✓ ✓
Norilyn Quesada-Rivera ✓
Department of the Interior and Local
Government
Lyn Aguilar ✓
Inter-Agency Council Against
Trafficking
Stephen Fantonalgo ✓ ✓ ✓
National Bureau of Investigation
Atty. Calimag-Cordero ✓ ✓
Olga Angusta-Gonzales ✓
National Economic and Development
Authority
Dianne Jade Calay ✓ ✓
Yuri Leomo ✓ ✓
Overseas Workers Welfare
Administration
Janette Bamba ✓
Melvin Caseda ✓

NATIONAL
AGENCIES
Philippine Commission on Women
Anastacio M Lagumbay Jr ✓ ✓
Anita Baleda ✓ ✓
Armando Orcilla Jr. ✓
Bianca Aljibe ✓ ✓
Claire Ruzzel Esturas ✓ ✓
Eufrpsina Dumlao ✓
Jun Lagumbay ✓ ✓
Kristine Chaves ✓
Philippine Overseas Employment
Administration
Carina Orense Kasilag ✓ ✓
Francis Ron C. de Guzman ✓ ✓ ✓
Philippine Statistics Authority
Anna Jean Pascasio ✓ ✓ ✓
Beth Balamban ✓
Jayson Christ Conti ✓ ✓ ✓
Wilma Guillen ✓
PNP Women and Children Protection
Center
Joy E Tomboc ✓ ✓ ✓
Michelle A Morada ✓
Technical Education and Skills
Development Authority
Lourdes Castante ✓
Rea M. Dalumpines ✓ ✓ ✓
Buddy Tan ✓
Dara Mendoza ✓
EMBASSIES
&
CONSULATES
Philippine Consulate General in Dubai
Charisse Michelin Sarion ✓ ✓
Aleah Gica ✓
Paul Cortes ✓ ✓
Larisse Lausingco ✓
Elizabeth Ramos ✓
Joanne Albino ✓
Philippine Consulate General in Hong
Kong SAR
Chariza Mae F. Paras ✓ ✓ ✓
Maria Sheila Monedero-
Arnesto
✓ ✓
Lhyndzie Anne M. Orozco ✓ ✓ ✓

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EMBASSIES
&
CONSULATES Philippine Consulate General in
Nagoya, Japan
Ava ✓
Philippine Consulate General in
Sydney
Yolanda M. Sta. Ana ✓
Philippine Embassy in Athens
Judy Barbara G. Robianes ✓ ✓ ✓
R.P. Lemque ✓
Philippine Embassy in Kuala Lumpur
Jehanifah Merdekah Acraman ✓ ✓ ✓
Leandro Luiz S. Manantan ✓ ✓ ✓
Philippine Embassy in Kuwait Edith del Rosario Musanif ✓ ✓
Philippine Embassy in Phnom Penh Frances Cleofas ✓ ✓
Philippine Embassy in Prague,
Czech Republic
Lina Catbagan ✓ ✓ ✓
Philippine Embassy in Wellington,
New Zealand
Querobine Deapera Laccay ✓ ✓ ✓
LOCAL
GOVT
UNITS
City Government of Caloocan Nelda F. Lucban ✓ ✓
City Government of Malabon Isabel L. Banao ✓
City Government of Muntinlupa
Catherine R. Biazon ✓
Adelfa de Guzman ✓
Reggie Salonga ✓ ✓ ✓
City Government of Valenzuela Linda Ignacio Santiago ✓ ✓
CIVIL
SOCIETY
ORGANIZATIONS
Batis Center for Women, Inc. Andrea Luisa C. Anolin ✓
Blas F. Ople Policy Center and Training
Institute, Inc.
Jerome A. Alcantara ✓
Carla Magalona ✓
Center for Migrant Advocacy-
Philippines, Inc.
Amberdawn Aeris R. Manaois ✓ ✓
Mindanao Migrants Center for
Empowering Actions, Inc.
Inorisa S. Elento ✓ ✓ ✓
Scalabrini Migration Center Mary Con Kimberly Juanillo ✓ ✓
Talikala, Inc. Kate Dianne Opimo ✓
Unlad Kabayan Migrant Services
Foundation
Ann Jean Lumaya ✓ ✓
Women's Legal and Human Rights
Bureau
Claire Bacong ✓ ✓
Jelen Jeremy ✓

APPENDIX B: Further Details and Results of the Preliminary Survey for the
Online Training-Consultation cum Action Planning Meetings
All the participants of the Online Training-Consultation cum Action Planning Meetings were asked to
answer a preliminary survey to better understand the current situation of data collection, storage, and
management on VAWMW in their respective agencies and organizations. Out of the 78 individuals
representing 37 various agencies who attended the sessions, 51 individuals representing 31 various
agencies have completed the survey.
# of Respondents
(Individuals)
# of Represented
Offices
National Agencies 26 12
Embassies / Consulates 10 7
Local Government Units 6 4
Civil Society Organizations 9 8
TOTAL 51 31
Below are the raw results, aggregated by represented office, for the survey questions with
accompanying charts for visualization and short explanations.

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QUESTION 1: How does your agency gather data on Gender Based Violence against Women Migrant Workers?
The results for this question show that around 58% of the responding agencies / organizations employ face-to-face interviews in gathering data for cases
regarding gender-based violence on women migrant workers. Similarly, around 39% - 42% of the responding agencies / organizations makes use of forms to
be filled up by the survivor and information submitted to their helpdesk while only around 32% of these agencies / organizations makes use of online intake
sheets. Finally, only around 10% - 16% of these agencies makes use of alternative methods such as referrals, registry systems, and community and home visits
while around 6% of the responding agencies do not gather data regarding gender-based violence.
This shows that the modes of data collection of the responding agencies / organizations are uneven. Some agencies have more ways to collect data than
others who rely on the intake sheet alone.

QUESTION 2: Does your agency have an intake sheet for Gender Based Violence against Women Migrant Workers, or do you use a generic
intake sheet for all forms of Gender Based Violence?
The results for this question show that a vast majority (around 75%) of the responding agencies / organizations use a generic intake sheet for all forms of
violence against women to collect data on cases regarding violence against women migrant workers. Only 13% of the responding agencies / organizations
make use of an intake sheet specifically designed for violence against women migrant workers while 6% uses a generic intake sheet that is not even designed
solely for VAWMW cases.
This shows the clear lack of a harmonized system existing between the responding agencies / organizations in terms of the intake sheets being used to collect
data on cases involving VAWMW.

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QUESTION 3: Is obtaining the data a one-time event or are follow-ups conducted?
The results for this question show that a vast majority (75%) of the responding agencies / organizations conducts follow-ups on the survivors reporting their
cases for data collection while the rest (25%) do not conduct any follow-ups after the first instance of collecting data from the survivor.
Again, this shows a lack of a harmonized system existing between the responding agencies / organizations in terms of the process of collecting data cases
involving on gender-based violence against women migrant workers.

QUESTION 4: What type of data on Gender Based Violence against Women Migrant Workers is collected by your agency?
The results for this question show that most (around 80%) of the responding agencies / organizations would collect data such as the “date of occurrence of
violence”, “location of violence”, “type of violence”, “information on the survivor”, and “services provided / response to the report”. Approximately 65%,
however, would collect data such as “information on the perpetrator”, “medical findings”, “information on the history of violence”, and “progress notes /
updates”. While only a few (around 6%) would collect other data such as “support systems available” and “inter-agency coordinative efforts”.
This shows that even at just the level of what data should be collected when dealing with cases on gender-based violence against women migrant workers, a
disparity on the actions of the responding agencies / organizations exists.

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QUESTION 5: What challenges does your agency face in data collection of Gender Based Violence against Women Migrant Workers?
The results for this question show various problems the responding agencies / organizations face with regards to collecting data on cases involving VAWMW.
This may show a lack of overarching guidelines (be it a law with implementing rules and regulations, or instructions from a governing body) for the responding
agencies / organizations to base their actions upon as well as a possible lack in training on how to properly deal with survivors of VAW.

QUESTION 6: Is there a specific person / team in charge of collecting these data on Gender Based Violence against Women Migrant Workers?
The results for this question show that most (around 75%) of the responding agencies / organizations have at least a specified person / team assigned for
collecting data specifically on cases involving gender-based violence against women migrant workers.
This shows that these responding agencies / organizations recognize the need for having a person / team focusing on just data regarding gender-based
violence against women-migrant workers.

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QUESTION 7: Around how many people are involved in this process?
The results for this question show that most (around 80%) of the responding agencies / organizations have 1-3 personnel assigned to handle cases involving
gender-based violence against women migrant workers.
This elucidates the lack of personnel of responding agencies / organizations regarding data gathering, collection and storage on VAWMW.

QUESTION 54 : Are the involved team members experts in data management and / or data analysis (e.g. statistician)?
The results for this question show that most (around 65%) of the responding agencies / organizations have team members that are not identified as experts
in data management nor data analysis.
This reveals that current c data collection schemes and analysis of responding agencies / organizations are on a basic level.

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QUESTION 9: Do these team members undergo regular training?
The results for this question show that for data management and data analysis, around half of the responding agencies / organizations have their team
members undergo training while the other half does not receive training on data management and analysis at all. On the other hand, the results also show
that most of the responding agencies / organizations have their team members undergo training for sensitivity to VAW survivors and ethics, safety, and
confidentiality principles at least once a year while only around 20% do not have their members undergo training for these at all. It is also apparent that most
training done, if any, is done only once a year.

APPENDIX C: Detailed Results for the Pre-test and Post-test conducted during
the Online Training-Consultation cum Action Planning Meetings
STATEMENT 1: Violence against women OFWs only refers to illegal recruitment, sex trafficking and
other acts of physical, sexual, and psychological harm against female OFWs occurring while they are
in-transit to the country of work or during their work abroad.
All Respondents Respondents who answered both tests
Agree Disagree Agree Disagree
Pre-test 30.3% 69.7% Pre-test 33.3% 66.7%
Post-test 32.0% 68.0% Post-test 33.3% 66.7%
In both sets, two-thirds of the respondents believe that violence against women OFWs should not
refer solely to illegal recruitment, sex trafficking and other acts of physical, sexual, and psychological
harm against female OFWs occurring while they are in-transit to the country of work or during their
work abroad.
STATEMENT 2: Current data collection, integration / consolidation, and management on violence
against women OFWs in the country is systematic and adequate.
Pre-test 15.2% 84.8% Pre-test 8.3% 91.7%
The post-test in both sets of data show that two-thirds of the respondents believe that the current
data collection, integration / consolidation, and management on violence against women OFWs in the
country is not systematic nor adequate. This is despite a change in the perception of some of the
respondents.

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STATEMENT 3: Violence against women OFWs is an international issue, thus data tracking should
be at the national level.
Pre-test 69.7% 30.3% Pre-test 83.3% 16.7%
This is one of the statements wherein a significant change in perception was seen in the respondents
who answered both tests as initially a greater majority had agreed to the statement but had later
reversed their response. Nonetheless, despite the shift, majority of the respondents on both sets
believe that Violence against women OFWs is an international issue, thus data tracking should be at
the national level.
STATEMENT 4: Data on violence against women OFWs is integrated in local and national
development planning.
Pre-test 48.5% 51.5% Pre-test 50.0% 50.0%
There is an equal distribution on the answers that data on violence against women OFWs is integrated
in local and national development planning.
STATEMENT 5: Tracking of data on violence against women OFWs can and should only be done by
migration or OFW-focused agencies and organizations.
Pre-test 15.2% 84.8% Pre-test 8.3% 91.7%
A greater majority of the respondents in both sets believe that tracking of data on violence against
women OFWs can and should not only be done by migration or OFW-focused agencies and
organizations.

STATEMENT 6: Data privacy is a barrier in the data sharing and harmonization of data on violence
against women OFWs across agencies.
Pre-test 66.7% 33.3% Pre-test 58.3% 41.7%
More than half of the respondents believe that data privacy is a barrier in the data sharing and
harmonization of data on violence against women OFWs across agencies.
STATEMENT 7: Current tracking templates (e.g., intake sheets, documentation forms) of
government agencies and inter-agency bodies on migration, and civil society organizations, are
sensitive to gender-based violence against OFWs.
Pre-test 48.5% 51.5% Pre-test 41.7% 58.3%
More than half of the respondents on both sets believe that the current tracking templates (e.g.intake
sheets, documentation forms) of government agencies and inter-agency bodies on migration, and civil
society organizations, are not sensitive to gender-based violence against OFWs.
STATEMENT 8: Current tracking templates (e.g.intake sheets, documentation forms) of
government agencies and inter-agency bodies, and civil society organizations, working on gender
equality issues integrate migration / OFW issues.
Pre-test 51.5% 48.5% Pre-test 33.3% 66.7%
Majority of the respondents believe that the current tracking templates (e.g.intake sheets,
documentation forms) of government agencies and inter-agency bodies, and civil society
organizations, who work on gender equality issues do not integrate migration / OFW issues.

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APPENDIX D: Screenshots Taken During the Online Training-Consultation cum
A screenshot of as Ms. Charisse Jordan discusses the Safe and Fair Programme.
A screenshot consultation series as Ms. Anette Baleda of the Philippine Commission on Women
delivers the closing remarks.

A screenshot consultation series showing some of the participants.
Consultation series showing some of the participants.

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From the second session of the online training consultation as Prof. Rivera discusses the program of
activities for the day.
From the second session of the online training consultation as Dr. Natividad discusses ethics and
confidentiality.

From the second session of the online training consultation as Atty. Rubin from the CHR shares her
experiences.
From the second session of the online training consultation as Ms. Rodriguez discusses ethics and
confidentiality.

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From the third session of the online training consultation as Atty. De Guzman from POEA shares his
experiences.
From the third session of the online training consultation as Ms. Dumlao from PCW shares her
experiences.

From the third session of the online training consultation showing some of the participants.

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