I. Executive Summary This section sums up the entire report for quick and easy reading. It steers the readers toward a functional grasp of what the CHR is all about, as it also submits the entire stretch and scope of institutional work in the service of human rights for the year 2022. In recapping, it provides the readers with accurate information on the highlights of CHR’s performance for the period with an instant overview. In this fashion, it will be most useful not only for those who do not have time to go through the entire report. This will also serve the purpose of the institution’s program managers and implementers, and all other stakeholders i.e., donors, counterpart agencies, policy and decision makers, the public at large, together with all other human rights partners, who might need consolidated information all at once. While packing the entire annual report in a nutshell, this executive summary nonetheless provides a general and substantive idea of CHR outputs and accomplishments consisting of its core programs namely, protection, prevention, promotion, and policy advisory along with the nonfront-line services. It further describes efforts of the institution to enable management systems and render support operations by carrying out and sustaining development actions, general administration and logistical/technical services, financial and budget strategizing and coordination, monitoring compliance to good governance conditions, and infrastructure improvement efforts. For a retrospective view, this summary cites in brief here a strategic action plan validated and finalized by the 5th Commission En Banc that led and charted institutional work in the previous six years. It is worth pointing out that the year 2022 serves as the one final year of the inclusive years (2016 – 2022) under the Strategic Options and Directions – a roadmap blueprinted by the then incumbent Commission while the CHR was navigating the very precarious human rights environment during the period. While CHR ably identified and confronted the particular issues that posed challenges, it also noted in said strategic plan the strong points and opportunities that can be activated to help propel forward its vision, mission and goals, and other crucial points of interest both in the national and international spheres. The targets for the period that culminated into 2022 were to “attain strategic objectives and organizational outcomes, specifically: violations of human rights effectively addressed and remedied; conditions of places of detention improved and Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDL) related incident checked; human rights culture evolved and sustained; human rights mechanisms strengthened; and transition to new leadership and priorities.” With the foregoing, and as this report comes out in 2022, the outputs and outcomes corresponding to the major steps and milestones to reach strategic objectives and organizational goals would have been attained. On this account, this current annual report describes where the long tough journey has so far taken and set down the CHR in relation to the paths it had planned, paved and followed. It is not a document only for the CHR to contemplate on with respect to its entire work as an NHRI. It is also a framework for all stakeholders who share and support the goals and perspectives of the institution to consider, espouse and actively participate in. As a quick guidance, the presentation in this summary will be in a format that is mainly in visual images with text descriptions that are brief and compact as possible. It arrays only the salient points of the CHR periodic performance while facilitating appreciation of large amounts of data in clustered information. The extended and elaborated narratives are all contained in the main report. 5