National Day vs Violence on Women and Children

Section 2(a) requires heads of government agencies and instrumentalities, government-owned and -controlled corporations, local government units, and employers in the private sector to organize, engage in, or participate in activities with their employees to raise public awareness on violence and the elimination of all forms of violence against women and children.
Section 2(b) mandates the Philippine Information Agency to allocate a minimum of one (1) hour airtime for programs exclusively raising public awareness on violence against women and children.
Section 2(b) encourages all television and radio networks nationwide to allocate airtime for the same awareness programs.
Section 2(c) encourages publishers of local newspapers and magazines to highlight the problem of violence and the elimination of all forms of violence against women and children.
Section 2(d) requires the Department of Education, the Commission on Higher Education, and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, in coordination with the Philippine Commission on Women (PCW), the Department of Social Welfare and Development, women NGOs, and other NGOs and peopleas organizations advocating for womenas and childrenas human rights, to lead public and private school communities at all levels in organizing consciousness-raising activities.

Section 3 directs the National Statistics Office, the Philippine National Police, the Department of Social Welfare and Development, the Department of Labor and Employment, the Department of Foreign Affairs, and all Philippine embassies and consulates to undertake data gathering and systematization of a database on all forms of violence against women and children, including Filipino women and children working and/or residing abroad.
Section 3 requires these agencies, in coordination with the PCW, to consolidate their findings.
Section 3 requires consolidated reporting to the public every November 25 on statistics and the status of violence against women and children.

Section 4 requires the PCW and the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT) (constituted under Section 20 of Republic Act No. 9208), and the Inter-Agency Council on Violence Against Women and Their Children (IAC-VAWC) (constituted under Section 39 of Republic Act No. 9262) to coordinate, monitor, and evaluate the activities outlined in the annual eighteen (18)-day campaign at the national level.
Section 4 provides that at the regional level, the Regional Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Trafficking-Violence Against Women and Their Children (RIACAT-VAWC) coordinates, monitors, and evaluates the annual campaign activities at the provincial, city, municipal, and barangay levels.
Section 4 requires the RIACAT-VAWC to make an annual report of its findings and have them reported to the public every November 25.
Section 4 authorizes the PCW, the IACAT, and the IAC-VAWC to coordinate and tap the expertise of other government agencies and institutions such as the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) and the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), and other private sector organizations, in implementing activities for the eighteen (18)-day campaign.

Section 5 provides that funds for the implementation of the activities, programs, and projects are taken out of the five percent (5%) Gender and Development budget allocated to all government agencies and local government units, as mandated by Section 36 of Republic Act No. 9710.

Section 6 provides that if any section or provision is held unconstitutional or invalid, the validity of the other sections is not affected.

Section 7 provides that the Act takes effect fifteen (15) days following its publication in two (2) national newspapers of general circulation.