Support groups. A support group should be formed to help the victims of VAW.
Moreover, there should be activities or livelihood available to them to help them
move forward from the traumatic experience. It should give women just loans
without collateral.
Recommended interventions for marginalized groups:
Awareness raising on the services available for marginalized women
(Regions 9, 2). For the IP sector who are scattered (geographically), the
government or the concerned sector should bring the services to them and should
provide support in the form of scholarships, health benefits, representation,
employment, and equal protection.
Address issues of accessibility of information, processes, and mechanisms
for PWDs, IPs, Moro Women and other marginalized groups. In Region 10, for
instance, interpreters for deaf women have been recommended to facilitate their
access to health centers, barangay and police women’s desks, and to help them
access information on HIV, reproductive health, etc. LGBT desks should be
provided in police stations to discrimination, which they are often faced with
when filing complaints.
Livelihood programs for marginalized women (Regions 1, 7). As pointed out in
Region 7, LGBTs have no concrete livelihood program which sometimes causes
them to engage in prostitution. It was suggested that a national program be made
to address their lack of livelihood needs.
LGBT concerns should be incorporated in every LGU GAD plan. In Region 4, these
GAD plans may be patterned after the Laguna GAD Plan. Further, it was suggested
that July 26 be declared as “Araw ng Kalalakihan” in the municipal GAD plans, and
October 11 as Laguna Gay Day.
There is a need to educate and empower the youth insofar as the law and
prevalence of violence against women is concerned. (CAR)
Specific intervention for PWDs were recommended in Region 9: the Department
of Social Welfare and Development, through the Area Vocational Rehabilitation
Center, should cater to social work intervention through comprehensive
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