continuing assistance and support. By 2021, a total of 490 Requests for Protection Services (RPS) have been assisted by the CHR, with 564 victims. Table 9 Breakdown of the Number of Complaints/ Cases Involving Children as Victims by Gender Total RPS Male Female Unidentified Total 490 137 410 17 564 VIII. Gender-Related Complaints The CHR was designated as a Gender Ombud in 2009. As such, it is the task of the Commission to help attain equal opportunity for all gender in the country while recognizing the women sector as active and dynamic agents of development. A component of this task is to ensure that gender equality has to be a fundamental principle and practice replicated most of all in government’s development policies and standards. The Commission released in 2016 the CHR Gender Ombud Guidelines Promoting Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Under the MCW (RA 9710) And Related Laws wherein it emphasized that “the Magna Carta of Women, passed in 2009, has since designated the Commission as the Gender and Development Ombud. The law sets out its specific mandates for the Commission which the Commission must faithfully and fully implement: among them, promoting and protecting women’s rights through creative approaches in education while honing investigation of rights violations committed by persons not only from the public but equally from the private sectors.” In line with its role, CHR has been diligently disaggregating its collected data and taking note of incidences involving women not only to monitor but also to ensure that they receive proper assistance. In relation to this, about 812 requests for protection services were recognized and accommodated by the CHR affecting 938 victims in 2021. The numbers are made up of mixed gender wherein 20 were male and 918 or 97.87% were female. IX. Resolution of Cases Resolving HRV cases is the paramount objective in providing services to CHR’s clients. Helping settle the cases thru Alternative Dispute Resolution is a measure to offer alternative and/or provisional options and remedies based on appropriate and available policy and procedure especially when an early and immediate solution is not possible. While the Commission does not have the power of prosecution, investigating and counseling the clients towards case resolution has been a mechanism to proactively institute and adopt a human rights strategy. For the year, the Commission resolved a total of 2,416 cases of which 486 were resolved for filing and monitoring in appropriate courts or agencies for prosecution and/or administrative action; there were 929 cases that were dismissed/closed/terminated because of lack of interest of the complainants to pursue the case. ADR 23 For filing and/or Monitoring 486 Table 10 Number of Resolved Cases by Disposition Dismissed/ Closed Archived Archived Closed Terminated W/ HRV Terminated w/ HRV 929 425 377 171 For Reinvestigation Total 5 2,416 14