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NCIP Objectives and Policies for IP Rights

The NCIP aims to formulate and implement policies, plans, and programs that recognize, promote, and protect the rights and well-being of Indigenous Peoples (IPs) regarding their ancestral domains, self-governance, social justice, and cultural integrity. The policies set for R.A. 8371 recognize and promote the rights of IPs within the framework of national unity and development, including protecting their ancestral domains and cultural traditions. It also guarantees equal enjoyment of human rights for all members of IPs. Two key NCIP programs are providing assistance for Ancestral Domain Sustainable Development and Protection Plans, and recognizing ancestral domains and lands.

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NCIP Objectives and Policies for IP Rights

The NCIP aims to formulate and implement policies, plans, and programs that recognize, promote, and protect the rights and well-being of Indigenous Peoples (IPs) regarding their ancestral domains, self-governance, social justice, and cultural integrity. The policies set for R.A. 8371 recognize and promote the rights of IPs within the framework of national unity and development, including protecting their ancestral domains and cultural traditions. It also guarantees equal enjoyment of human rights for all members of IPs. Two key NCIP programs are providing assistance for Ancestral Domain Sustainable Development and Protection Plans, and recognizing ancestral domains and lands.

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1. What are the aims and objectives of NCIP?

 NICP is the primary government agency that that aims and has the objectives
to formulates and implements policies, plans and programs for the
recognition, promotion and protection of the rights and well-being of IPs with
due regard to their ancestral domains and lands, self-governance and
empowerment, social justice and human rights, and cultural integrity.

2. What are the policies that is set for R.A 8371?

 The State shall recognize and promote all the rights of Indigenous Cultural
Communities/ Indigenous Peoples (ICCs/IPs) hereunder enumerated within
the framework of the Constitution:
 a) The State shall recognize and promote the rights of ICCs/IPs within the
framework of national unity and development;
 b) The State shall protect the rights of ICCs/IPs to their ancestral domains to
ensure their economic, social and cultural wellbeing and shall recognize the
applicability of customary laws governing property rights or relations in
determining the ownership and extent of ancestral domain;
 c) The State shall recognize, respect and protect the rights of ICCs/ IPs to
preserve and develop their cultures, traditions and institutions. It shall
consider these rights in the formulation of national laws and policies;
 d) The State shall guarantee that members of the ICCs/IPs regardless of sex,
shall equally enjoy the full measure of Human rights and freedoms without
distinction or discrimination;
 e) The State shall take measures, with the participation of the ICCs/ IPs
concerned, to protect their rights and guarantee respect for their cultural
integrity, and to ensure that members of the ICCs/IPs benefit on an equal
footing from the rights and opportunities which national laws and regulations
grant to other members of the population; and
 f) The State recognizes its obligations to respond to the strong expression of
the ICCs/IPs for cultural integrity by assuring maximum ICC/IP participation in
the direction of education, health, as well as other services of ICCs/lPs, in
order to render such services more responsive to the needs and desires of
these communities.
3. 2 NCIP programs

 Assistance to Ancestral Domain Sustainable Development and Protection


Plan (ADSDPP) Formulation.
 Ancestral Domain/Land Recognition.

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