The main objective of the World Bank’s Indigenous Peoples Engagement Strategy is to enhance the visibility of IPs in the Philippines and increase awareness ... and other development partners; c) ...

Protection of Indigenous peoples' ancestral domain is provided for in the 1986 Philippine Constitution. The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples was established to look after their interests ...

For the Philippines, aligning national policies with international frameworks like the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples can pave the way for more effective protection ...

One cannot deny the fact that indigenous peoples are significant on-site stewards of the rich biodiversity of the Philippines. In fact, there is an almost a 1:1 correspondence of Key Biodiversity ...

The Parish Pastoral Council, the highest consultative and pastoral body in every parish in the Philippines works closely with the parish priest, and plans and implements programs and activities in the ...

For centuries, the Philippine eagle and hawk eagle have shared this remote rainforest with the Dumagat, an Indigenous people who call the slopes of the Sierra Madre mountains in the northern ...

But Indigenous Dumagats say otherwise. Indigenous Peoples protesting the project only shows that the “consent” the Philippine government is parroting is a sham. “Defense of ancestral lands ...

For instance, with support from the Forest Foundation Philippines, funded by debt-for-nature swaps, XSF partnered with seven Kalatungan-based Indigenous peoples’ organizations to plant thousands ...

One cannot deny the fact that indigenous peoples are significant on-site stewards of the rich biodiversity of the Philippines. In fact, there is an almost a 1:1 correspondence of Key Biodiversity ...