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Right to Social Justice and Human Rights
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Legal Services
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“Hello Money” is a mobile banking application of Asia United Bank (AUB) that “aims to
promote not only transparency and accountability in royalty share distribution to IP family
beneficiaries, but also to promote fast, modern, and convenient way of banking whereby
the beneficiaries of the IP royalty will directly receive their royalty share through their
bank accounts without any hassle. [...] The Hello Money account is paired with an ATM
card”.290
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NCIP Surigao del Norte and the AUB facilitated an orientation on the application and was
introduced to the Mamanwa of the ICC of Brgy. Ombong, Alegria, Surigao del Norte.
“The office aims to replicate this activity to all other IP communities receiving royalty
from mining companies. Through this method, monitoring by our office of the IP royalty
utilization will be much faster and easier”.291
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CHR CAR took cognizance of multiple issues in the delineation process or Certificate
of Ancestral Domain Title (CADT) application. The following issues and concerns were
noted: unresolved boundary conflict between ICCs/IPs sparked by CADT applications;
tri-boundary disputes over a gray area arising from the Cadastral survey of the Department
of Environment and Natural Resources [DENR] or conversion from Certificate of
Ancestral Domain Claim (CADC) to CADT; suspension of ancestral domain title due to
conflict resolution; boundary conflict which prevented the completion of the delineation
of an ancestral domain; overlapping approved Certificate of Ancestral Land Titles (CALT)
and land claims, and non-recognition of duly issued CALTs and CADTs of different
government agency/ies.
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The scarcity of budget in ancestral land delineation was also raised, with only a maximum
of one (1) delineation project funded per year seen as a limitation.
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CHR CAR likewise noted that the “Joint Administrative Order No. 1 s.2012 of the
DENR, [Land Registration Authority] LRA, [Department of Agrarian Reform] DAR
and NCIP [which requires] segregation of lands covered by previously issued individual
titles before the CADT is registered [...] is not possible because of a technical problem. The
ADs were surveyed under the new system (PRS92) while the lands covered by previously
issued individual titles to be segregated from the survey plan were surveyed under the
old system. For segregation to materialize, the old system must be converted into the
new system which is the task of the DENR. It is NCIP’s stand, that there should be no
segregation as it dismembers the AD thereby destroying the concept that an AD covers not
only the physical but the total environment including the spiritual and cultural bonds to
the areas the ICCs/IPs occupy and use.292
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CHR Caraga lauded NCIP’s efforts to continue the processing of ancestral domain
applications from indigenous peoples, noting that the pandemic did not deter the NCIP from
processing such and implementing information, education and campaign (IEC) activities,
to wit: In January, the application of the Higaonon Indigenous Cultural Communities
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CHR CARAGA (2021). The Situation of Human Rights in the CARAGA Region.
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CHR CARAGA (2021). The Situation of Human Rights in the CARAGA Region.
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CAR (2021). Regional Human Rights Situationer Report: January to June 2021.