NCIP-XI holds review on ancestral domain documents of 5 typhoon-hit areas

COMPOSTELA VALLEY, Jan. 27 (PIA)--- The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) 11 started yesterday the 5-day review on the ancestral domain development document of  the five typhoon-hit towns in the province.

NCIP Compostela Valley Provincial Officer Roger S. Lumbin said the ADSDPP review centered  on “Enhancement on Environmental Protection/Disaster Risk Reduction/Climate Change Proofing” involving the municipalities of Laak, Compostela, New Bataan, Montevista and Monkayo.

Lumbin explained that the municipalities already had their own ADSDPP but the “recent changes brought about by climate change” called for the need to enhance such document to enable the indigenous peoples communities “to become more responsive to times”.

Lumbin described ADSDPP as the framework for development of IP communities “in their quest for  sustainable development of ancestral domains”.

Funded by the Office of the Presidential Assistant on the Peace Process (OPAPP), the ADSDPP review includes workshops on following: Rules on Natural Resource Utilization; Exploration, Extraction and Utilization of Minerals;  Benefits of Sharing Schemes; Organizational and Institutional Development as Ancestral Domain Management.

Other topics of the on-going workshop are Policies on the Entry of Migrants; Land Allocation, Distribution and Management; Rules on Program, Project Implementation, Monitoring and Responsibility; and Investment Plan.

Held at Big 8 Corporate Hotel in Tagum City, Davao del Norte, the ADSDPP review gathers the national line agencies of the departments of environment and natural resources, labor and employment, public works and highways, social  welfare and development, education, agriculture, interior and local government, tourism and energy.

NCIP 11 also invites the participation of the provincial and municipal offices of the environment and natural resources, disaster risk reduction management, interior and local government, and tourism.

Other participating government agencies are the Office of the Presidential Assistant on the Peace Process, Office of Civil Defense, Mines and Geo-sciences Bureau, Philippine National Police, Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine Information Agency XI.

 Groups of IP women, youth and elders; non-government organizations (NGOs), tribal council leaders and the Diocese of Tagum are also among the participants.  (PIA 11/ Jeanevive D. Abangan)