3. BACKGROUND AND LEGAL BASES
RA No. 11862
An Act Strengthening the Policies on Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act (amending RA 9208 and RA
10364)
RA No. 11930
Anti-Online Sexual Abuse or Exploitation of Children (OSAEC) and Anti-Child Sexual Abuse or
Exploitation Materials (CSAEM) Act
RA No. 11313
An Act Defining Gender-based Sexual Harassment in Streets, Public Spaces, Online, Workplaces, and Educational
Training Institutions, Providing Protective Measures and Prescribing Penalties therefore or the Safe Spaces Act
RA No. 9262
Anti-Violence Against Women and their Children Act of 2004
DILG, DSWD, DOJ JMC No. 2010-1
Creation of the Local Committee on Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Violence Against women and Their
Children (LAT-VAWC)
DILG MC No. 2020-006
Guidelines in Monitoring the Functionality of LCAT-VAWC
5. CREATION AND COMPOSITION
•LCAT-VAWC must be organized at
the provincial, city/municipal level
every three years or within the
current term of administration;
•Organization can be reflected
through Executive Order (EOs),
Ordinance, or other similar
issuances;
6. CREATION AND COMPOSITION
Provincial Committee on Anti-Trafficking and Violence Against Women and their Children (PCAT-
VAWC)
• Chairperson : Provincial Governor
• Vice-Chairperson: Sangguniang Panlalawigan Chairperson of the Committee on
Women, Children and Family
• Members : a. Provincial Planning Development Officer
b. Provincial Social Welfare Development Officer
c. Provincial Health Officer
d. Provincial Public Employment and Services Officer
e. Gender and Development Focal Person
f. Public Schools Superintendent, DepEd
g. Field Officer Director, CSC
h. Provincial Prosecutor, DOJ
i. Provincial Director, DILG
j. Provincial Director, PNP
k. Provincial LnB Chapter President
l. NGO Representative from each sector: Women,; Children; and OFW
7. CREATION AND COMPOSITION
City/Municipal Committee on Anti-Trafficking and Violence Against Women and their Children
(C/MCAT-VAWC)
• Chairperson : City/Municipal Mayor
• Vice-Chairperson: Sangguniang Panlungsod/Bayan Chairperson of the Committee on
Women, Children and Family
• Members : a. C/M Planning Development Officer
b. C/M Social Welfare Development Officer
c. C/M Health Officer
d. C/M Public Employment and Services Officer
e. Gender and Development Focal Person
f. City Prosecutor (for Cities only)
g. City Director/City or Municipal Local Government Operations
Officer
h. C/M Chief of Police, PNP
i. C/M LnB Chapter President
j. NGO Representative from each sector: Women,; Children; and OFW
8. FUNCTIONS OF THE LCAT-VAWC
Recommend policies or
measures to ensure the
effective implementation of
laws and policies related to
protect women and children
within its jurisdiction.
Institute policies and programs
to protect women and children
who are victims of trafficking,
violence, sexual abuse or
exploitation, sexual
harassment, and other forms
of gender-based violence.
Recommend ordinance to
implement local programs and
related interventions on TIP,
VAWC, OSAEC and CSAEM,
GBSH and other forms of
gender-based violence.
9. FUNCTIONS OF THE LCAT-VAWC
Identify communities and
families that are vulnerable
to TIP for purposes of
providing appropriate
interventions.
Undertake information,
education, and advocacy
campaigns against TIP, VAWC,
GBSH in streets and public
spaces, OSAEC and CSAEM,
and other forms of VAW in the
community.
Monitor and oversee the
implementation of the laws.
10. FUNCTIONS OF THE LCAT-VAWC
Prepare an Annual
Work an Financial
Plan (AWFP)
Prepare and submit
annual accomplishment
report on local
initiatives.
Monitor the creation and
functionality of C/MCAT-
VAWC (for PCAT-VAWC).
Meet quarterly to
discuss, plan,
formulate local
policies,
implement and
monitor PPAs.
11. FUNCTIONS OF THE LCAT-VAWC
Designate principal
and alternate
representatives in
meetings.
Document and monitor
cases of TIP, VAWC,
OSAEC and CSAEM,
GBSH in streets and
public spaces and other
forms of GBV within the
area of jurisdiction
Maintain and update
database on cases of TIP,
VAWC, OSAEC and
CSAEM, GBSH in streets
and public spaces and
other forms of GBV within
the area of jurisdiction
Conduct mapping
of available
services in the
area for efficient
referral of victim-
survivors.
13. Definition of Related Terms
Child – refers to a person below eighteen
(18) years of age or those over but are
unable to fully take care of themselves or
protect themselves from abuse, neglect,
cruelty, exploitation or discrimination
because of physical, mental, intellectual or
sensory disability or condition.
1. A person regardless of age who is
presented, depicted, or portrayed a child
identified herein;
2. Computer-generated, digitally or
manually crafted images, or graphics of
a person who is represented or who is
made to appear to be a child; (RA11930)
Child sexual abuse – refers to any form of
communication through any platform or
format, or any physical interaction between a
child and any person when the child is being
used for act or activity inducing sexual
stimulation or for the purpose of sexual
gratification or in pursuit of desire to have
carnal knowledge of the child, regardless of
the gender of the perpetrator of the victim, or
the consent of the victim. (RA11930)
14. Definition of Related Terms
Child Sexual Abuse or Exploitation
Materials or Child Sexual Abuse
Material (CSAEM/CSAM) (RA 11930) –
refers to any representation, whether
offline, or by, through or with the use of
ICT, be means if visual, video, audio,
written, or any combination thereof, by
electronic, mechanical, digital, optical,
magnetic or any other means, of a child
engaged or involved in real or simulated
sexual activities or depicting acts of sexual
abuse or exploitation of a child as a sexual
object.
Gender-Based Sexual
Harassment in Street and
Public Spaces (GBSH) (RA
11313) – is an act committed in
streets and public spaces
through any unwanted and
uninvited sexual actions or
remarks against ant persons
regardless of the motive for
committing such action or
remarks.
15. Definition of Related Terms
Online Sexual Abuse or Exploitation of Children (OSAEC) – refers to the use of
information and communication technology (ICT) as a means to abuse and/or
exploit children sexually, which includes cases in which offline child abuse and/or
exploitation is combined with an online component. This can also include, but is not
limited to, the production, dissemination, and possession of Anti-Child Sexual
Abuse or Exploitation Materials (CSAEM); online grooming of children for sexual
purposes; sexual extortion of children, sharing image-based sexual abuse;
commercial sexual exploitation of children; exploitation of children through online
prostitution; and live-streaming of sexual abuse, with or without the consent of the
victim: Provided, That OSAEC may be used interchangeably with online child sexual
exploitation or abuse (OCSEA).
16. Definition of Related Terms
Gender-Based Violence
(GBV) – refers to harmful
acts directed at an
individual or a group of
individuals based on their
gender.
Sexual Exploitation - refers to any
means of actual or attempted abuse of a
position of vulnerability, differential
power, or thrust for sexual purposes or
lewd designs, including profiting
monetarily, socially, or politically from
the sexual exploitation of another,
regardless of whether or not consent
was given.
17. Definition of Related Terms
Trafficking in Persons (TIP) (RA No. 11862)– refers to the recruitment, obtaining,
hiring, providing, offering, transportation, transfer, maintaining, harboring, or receipt of
persons with or without the victim’s consent or knowledge, within or across national
borders by means of threat or use of force, or other forms of coercion, abduction, fraud,
deception, abuse of power or of position, taking advantage of the vulnerability of the
person, or, the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a
person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation which includes
at a minimum, the exploitation or the prostitution of others, or the engagement for the
production or distribution, or both, of materials that depict child sexual abuse or
exploitation, or other services, slavery, servitude, or the removal or sale of organs. The
recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, adoption or receipt of a child for
the purpose of exploitation or when the adoption is induced by any form of
consideration for exploitative purposes, shall also be considered as “trafficking in
persons'', even if it does not involve any of the means set forth in the preceding
sentences.
18. Definition of Related Terms
Violence Against Women and Their Children (VAWC) (RA
No. 9262) - refers to any act of or a series of acts committed by
any person against a woman who is his wife, former wife, or
against a woman with whom the person has or had a sexual or
dating relationship, or with whom he has a common child, or
against her child whether legitimate or illegitimate, within or
without the family abode, which result in physical, sexual,
psychological harm or suffering, or economic abuse including
threats of such acts, battery, assault, coercion, harassment or
arbitrary deprivation of liberty
19. Definition of Related Terms
VAWC
It includes, but not limited to:
• Physical violence which refers to acts that include bodily or physical
harm;
• Sexual violence which refers to an act which is sexual in nature,
committed against a woman or her child as described in Section 5 (c) (2)
of the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of RA No. 9262;
• Psychological violence which refers to acts or omissions causing or likely
to cause mental or emotional suffering to the victim as described in
Section 5 (c) (3) of the IRR of RA No. 9262; and
• Economic abuse which refers to the acts that make or attempt to make a
woman financially dependent as described in Section 5 (c) (4) of the IRR
of RA No. 9262.
20. RA 9208 as amended of RA 11862
• Ant-Trafficking in Person (ATIP) Act
• Emerging Trends:
✔ Money Laundering
✔ Online Scam
✔ Child Trafficking
✔ Prostitution in Tourism
21. RA 9262
• Anti-Violence Against Women and their Children (VAWC)
• Emerging Trends:
✔ E-violence
✔ Economic
✔ Physical
✔ Sexual
✔ Psychological
22. RA 11930
• Anti-Online Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children- Child Sexual
Abuse and Exploitation Materials (OSAEC-CSAEM)
• Lapsed into law last July 2022; IRR launched last May 2023
• Considered as child trafficking
• Considered as family crime
• Replaced RA 9775 (Anti-Child Pornography Act)
23. RA 11313
• Anti-Sexual Harassment in Streets and Public Spaces (Anti-BASTOS
Law)
• Replaced RA RA 7877 (Anti-Sexual Harrasment)
• Features
○ Includes all public spaces, work place, school, and training
institutions
○ No need for hierarchical relationship
