a) Produce a working IP agenda which technical working groups (TWG) within the partnerships
may address; as the need arises or as the feedback mechanism calls for; urgent concerns in
the area of extrajudicial executions of IP rights defenders;
b) Foster a culture of accountability and good impact through IP-generated Monitoring and
Evaluation mechanisms for the agencies to adopt and which the CHR’s Regional offices can
validate generating periodical validation reports;
c) Develop more mechanisms responsive to the needs of IPs for the protection and promotion
of IP Rights such as:
i. Mediation and arbitration services in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) between IP
and Non-IP entities like government, civil society, business and/or migrant settlers;
ii. providing community assistance in accessing government programs/ development
funds such as the Green Climate Fund;
iii. providing a website venue (online database system) for IP to share their success
stories, difficulties and facilitate direct communications and partnering between and
among themselves; and
d) To build a databank of reliable data from primary sources to help inform policy and academic
research to craft better programmatic interventions for the IPs and their Ancestral Domains.
Guidelines will have to mark the parameters of the three level engagements but as the entire CHR
migrates to Human Rights Observatory (HRO) work these efforts will provide a modelling function
for other CHR divisions such as those involved in gender; children; conflict and Internal
displacement; climate change; political detainees and jail management; migrant workers, etc.
IV. Key Findings & Discussions
1. Joint Administrative Order No. 1 Series of 2012 constitutes a violation of IP rights to be
awarded Certificates of Ancestral Domain Titles (CADT) that sets the metes and bounds
of their domains and allows them to assert rights within those boundaries against
those operating to deny them the exercise of priority rights in developing said domains
JAO 1, Series of 2012 came about when the Land Registration Authority (LRA) refused to register
CADTs/CALTs unless the NCIP, DAR or DENR issued the corresponding certificate of nonoverlap. The intention of the agencies in implementing JAO1 is to ensure that private land titles
are segregated prior to the registration of CADTs/CALTs.
IPRA respects titles already extant within Ancestral Domains as of November 22, 1997 when
IPRA came into effect recognizing Native Titles all over the country, to wit:
“Sec. 56. Existing Property Rights Regimes. Property Rights within the ancestral domains already
existing and/or vested upon effectivity of this Act shall be recognized and respected.”
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