ANCESTRAL DOMAIN/LAND RECOGNITION
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Through the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (IPRA), Certificate of Ancestral Domain Titles (CADTs) are issued to formally recognize the rights of possession and ownership of Indigenous Cultural Communities/Indigenous Peoples (ICCs/IPs) over their ancestral domains as identified and delineated in accordance with this law, while Certificate of Ancestral Land Titles (CALTs) formally recognize the rights of ICCs/IPs over their ancestral lands.
ASSISTANCE TO ANCESTRAL DOMAIN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND PROTECTION PLAN (ADSDPP) FORMULATION
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Provision of technical and/or financial assistance to the Indigenous Cultural Communities/Indigenous Peoples (ICCs/IPs) in the formulation of their Ancestral Domain Sustainable Development and Protection Plan (ADSDPP). This holistic, comprehensive and integrated plans shall promote a culture and rights-based approach to development. It reflects the present and future desired conditions of the ICCs/IPs and contains the types of programs/projects that they will adopt for the sustainable management and development of their domain and community. The management plan shall include, but not be limited to, the following basic information:
Program aims to promote all the rights of ICCs/IPs within the framework of national unity and development and all shall protect the rights of Indigenous Peoples to their ancestral domains to ensure their economic, social and cultural well-being; and To recognize the inherent rights of ICCs/IPs to self-governance and self-determination, and respect the integrity of their values, practices and institutions as well as guarantee their right to freely pursue their development and equally enjoy the full measure of human rights and freedom without distinction or discrimination.
CULTURALLY APPROPRIATE RESPONSIVE AND GENDER SENSITIVE SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND ECOLOGY DEVELOPMENT PROTECTION SERVICES
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
The program provides for policy support and extension of assistance to ICCs/IPs through funding under the MOOE of the Commission apart from coordination with pertinent government agencies especially charged with implementation of various socio-economic services, policies and programs affecting the ICCs/IPs to ensure that the ICCs/IPs are directly benefited.
IP EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY SERVICES
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
The Educational Assistance Program. It is the program that aims to provide limited financial assistance to qualified ICCs/IPs students/pupils based on the criteria set forth in NCIP Administrative Order No. 5, series of 2012, otherwise known as NCIP Guidelines of 2012 on the Merit-Based Scholarship (NCIP-MBS) and Educational Assistance (NCIP-EA) and its amendments by virtue of Commission En Banc Resolution No. 06-099-2014, series of 2014.
The Merit-Based Scholarship Program. It is a program that aimed of providing meaningful scholarship to qualified/deserving IP students based on screening criteria and benefits or privileges set forth in the Guidelines.
The Support and Advocacy Program. This collective term refers to education-related projects and activities that complement the EAP and MBSP and Advocate holistic development to include initiatives other than educational assistance and scholarship, such as but not limited to Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) and other Review programs; Bridging Programs, School and Community-related Health Programs; Appropriate Social Infrastructures; and Trainings and Research Programs for Culturally Appropriate IP Education.
IP CULTURE SERVICES
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Considered as a mechanism of assisting the cultural communities preserve their cultural and historical heritage and at the same time evoking public awareness and respect for the IPs and their rights, is the extension of support to them in the practice of their rituals and ceremonies whenever these are necessary held. The performance of cultural manifestations as in rites, songs dances chants, and games, and the presentation of their native life ways, literature and arts, fabric and architectural designs, artifacts and instruments, in their original versions or in a manner in which they have been held through the years, without romanticism or simply aesthetic motivation, is essential to the IPs authentic flow of life and inherent world views at work. Stereotyping, false representation and commercialization of indigenous cultures are current fads that must be reckoned with and corrected. In here, time is of the essence
IP HEALTH SERVICES
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Republic Act No. 8371 known as The Indigenous Peoples Rights Act of 1997 declares that the State shall recognize and promote all the rights of Indigenous Cultural Communities/Indigenous Peoples (ICCs/IPs) to government’s basic services health included. The Universal Health Care (UHC)/Kalusugan Pangkalahatan (KP) (AO 2010-0036) addresses inequities in health outcomes ensuring that all Filipinos have equitable access to health care. The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 2007 (UNDRIP) states that Indigenous Peoples have the right to improvement of their economic and social conditions without discrimination; develop priorities and strategies for exercising their right to development; right to traditional medicines maintain their health practices; conserve their vital medicinal resources and access health and social services without discrimination; enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health; maintain, control, protect and develop their cultural heritage, traditional knowledge and cultural expressions and intellectual property over them.
GENDER AND RIGHTS-BASED SERVICES
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
This sub-program covers strategic efforts to protect the rights of the Indigenous Peoples to self-governance and self-determination ensuring that, but not limited to the following
IP RIGHTS ADVOCACY AND MONITORING OF TREATY OBLIGATIONS
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
In context, Indigenous Peoples human rights and violations of these rights in hinged on the ICCs/IPs existence or societies of their own even before foreign colonization of the Philippines. Having their own people, government and territories have been the foundation of their cultural identity, rights to self-determination and ancestral domains. To ICCs/IPs therefore, human rights is the respect of their collectiveness as groups of peoples and at the same time, recognizing their rights as citizens of a bigger society of the Philippine Republic. Their rights are human rights too.
The IP Human Rights Program, with full participation and consultation with ICCs/IPs, aims to contribute to the organizational outcome of the Commission. It seeks to promote the IPRA as an ICCs/IPs national framework of their human rights, to advocate ancestral domains as territories of peace and IPs self-determined development, human security and well- being.
The program strategy shall focus on the IPRA, international rights and other instruments from legal frameworks into a well-defined call for action involving various sectors such as international and national government, non-government organizations (NGOs), civil society groups (CSOs), ICCs/IPs leadership structures and IP organizations and the private sector towards the full enjoyment of ICCs/IPs human rights. A close networks built from ancestral domains, municipality, provincial, regional and national levels should be strengthened. Moreover, coordination and monitoring systems and mechanisms or the promotion and protection of IP rights at all levels shall also be enhanced through the program.
The overall objectives of the program are the following:
General: To ensure that the basic human rights of indigenous peoples/indigenous cultural communities (IPs/ICCs) basic social, political, cultural and economic rights are respected, recognized, protected and promoted, to promote ancestral domains as territories of peace and advocate the principle that Indigenous Peoples (IPs) rights are human rights and the respect of which will realize both the self-determined development and security of IPs as human being and ancestral domains/communities as a whole.
LEGAL SERVICES
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
COMPONENTS
There are three components of the Legal Services. These are:
ADJUDICATION SERVICES
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
The IPRA mandates the NCIP, acting through its Regional Hearing Offices (RHOs) and the Commission En Banc (CEB) and in the exercise of its quasi-judicial powers, to resolve all claims and disputes involving rights of ICCs/IPs, subject to the provisions of the IPRA and its implementing Rules, and other regulations, as well as, pertinent jurisprudence. With the aforementioned mandate, the NCIP, through its RHOs and CEB reviews cases submitted before it for adjudication, as a quasi-judicial tribunal, and after due proceedings and hearings, resolves the issues raised for adjudication.
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