V. RECOMMENDATIONS ARISING FROM KEY FINDINGS The Report lists many urgent concerns among IP that should awaken the State duty bearers to their responsibilities. It also summarizes the remarkable efforts of civil society at addressing government lapses in IP Rights protection and promotion. From a discussion of the CHR Perspective, it is clear that the only way in which government as State Duty Bearer can deal with IP giving full respect to their collective rights, is for a forum to be created and refereed by the CHR, wherein the relationship of direct partnership is established bring the GRP (Government of the Republic of the Philippines) on equal footing with every selfgoverning IP structure. Moreover, the over-all recommendation for an IP Human Rights Observatory in the CHR takes advantage of the CHR’s being an independent Constitutional Commission organized in all regions of the country as well as being an NHRI enjoying an international Class A status at the UN. It is thus uniquely positioned to perform coordinating as well as oversight functions in a qualitatively higher stage of IP Human Rights Protection and Promotion that is tailored to fit Philippine IPs. The IP Observatory consciously seeks to avoid being just another layer of bureaucracy. It seeks to rationalize government services to maximize measurable effects on its service beneficiaries. It seeks to build a central data bank for IP for more informed policy-making, for academic research, and to allow IPs to effectively access government services as well as local and international funds for development of their Ancestral Domains. Overall, it seeks to create an appreciation for the alternative paradigm for development inherent in the IP which has protected their domains for millennia and which is now universally praised and prized with the onslaught of Climate Change. It seeks to overcome the attitude that objectifies the IP as “target beneficiaries” that serves the government, civil society organizations, or other non-State entities more than it serves the beneficiaries. Finally, it seeks to promote a culture of mutual benefit partnerships that saves on valuable resources in terms of time, effort and taxpayers money that, while acknowledging the unquantifiable contributions of all partners, raises the need for quantifiers to establish an acceptable mean in the relationship with the IP given the mandatory character of State obligations and laws enforcing the same. With the IP Human Rights Observatory refereeing the partnership — government, civil society and IP will have pooled their efforts for the national benefit. It is government’s duty to periodically assess itself for its performance and they do this internally as civil service rules require but they have yet to assess their relevance to the public they serve. One way for this to be done is by institutionalizing a Human Rights-Based Monitoring and Evaluation mechanisms in government services. Currently, this attitude and service is in its seminal stages among government agencies as this Report has documented. Objectively gauging performances with indicators that the IP service beneficiaries themselves have set after a process of securing their free and informed prior consent, is here envisioned to guarantee good impact, responsiveness, efficiency and accountability. Page | 24