NCIP Functions

NCIP (National Commission on Indigenous Peoples)
What is NCIP?
- Are the one who stands and protects the rights of the indigenous peoples (IP’s) in the country.
- They can be the primary government agency which the Ips can seek government assistance and as
the medium through which such assistance may be extended.
MANDATE: The NCIP shall protect and promote the interest and well-being of the ICCs/IPs with due
regard to their beliefs, customs, traditions and institutions.
VISION: An esteemed Commission committed to the delivery of quality services to ICCs/IPs with their
rights fully respected, recognized, promoted, and protected.
MISSION: An enabling partner and lead advocate that formulates and implements policies, plans, and
programs for the 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.
To accomplish its mandate, the NCIP shall have the following powers, jurisdiction and function:
a. To serve as the primary government agency through which ICCs/IPs can seek government assistance
and as the medium, through which such assistance may be extended;
b. To review and assess the condition of ICCs/IPs including existing laws and policies pertinent thereto
and to propose relevant laws and policies to address role in national development;
c. To formulate and implement policies, plans, programs and projects for the economic, social and
cultural development of the ICCs/IPs and to monitor the implementation thereof;
d. To request and engage the services and support of experts from other agencies of government
employ private experts and consultants as may be required in the pursuit of its objectives;
e. To issue certificate of ancestral land/domain title;
f. Subject to existing laws, to enter into contracts, agreements, or arrangement, with government or
private agencies or entities as may be necessary to attain the objectives of this Act, and subject to the
approval of the President, to obtain loans from government lending institutions and other lending
institutions to finance its programs;
PROGRAMS AND SERVICES THAT THE NCIP CAN PROVIDE ARE THE FOLLOWING:
1.Ancestral Domain/Land Recognition
-Regulating a law that will recognize the right of ownership of the ICCs/Ips over their ancestral lands.
2.Assistance to Ancestral Domain Sustainable Development and Protection Plan (ADSDPP)
Formulation
- these plans shall promote a culture and rights-based approach to development which reflects the present
and future conditions of the Ips. This contains types of programs/ project for the management and
development of their domain and community.
-it also recognizes the inherent rights of the Ips to self-governance, self-determination and respect the
values, practices and institutions and as well as guarantee their right to freely pursue their development and
enjoy the full measure of human rights without discrimination.
3.Culturally Appropriate Responsive and Gender Sensitive Socio-economic and Ecology Development
Protection Service
-the program provides for policy support and extension of assistance to the Ips through funding under the
MOOE of the Commission apart from coordination with pertinent government agencies especially charged
with the implementation of various socio-economic services, policies, and programs affecting the ICCs/Ips
to ensure that they are directly benefited.
4.IP Education and Advocacy Services
-They provide educational assistance program for those qualified ICCs students based on the criteria.
5.IP Culture Services
-assisting the cultural communities to preserve their cultural and historical heritage and evoking public
awareness and respect for the rights, practice of rituals and ceremonies of the Ips.
6.IP Health Services
- The republic Act No.8371 or The Indigenous Peoples Act of 1997 declares that the state shall recognize
and promote all the rights of the ICCs to governments basic services which health is included.
7.Gender and Rights-based Services
-it prevents discrimination to the socio-political structures, indigenous structures, systems and institutions,
and therefore are not supplanted by other forms of non-indigenous governance and allows the interfacing of
indigenous governance.
8.IP Rights Advocacy and Monitoring of Treaty Obligations
-To ensure the basic human rights of the Ips/ICCs basic social, political, cultural and economic rights are
respected, recognized, protected and promoted, to promote ancestral domains as territories of peace and
advocate the principle that Indigenous Peoples rights are the human rights and the respect of which will
realize both the self-determined development and security of IPs as human being and ancestral
domains/communities as a whole.
9.Legal Services
-it has three components
 The Indigenous Peoples Legal Assistance (IPLA) which the NCIP acts as the government agency in
which the IP’s can seek government assistance and as a medium through which such assistance is
extended.
 Paralegal Training-it seeks to educate and inform the ICCs of their rights, the various applicable
remedies they have in case these rights are violated and abused and the different jurisdiction where
they may lodge their complains for such violation.
 Documentation of Customary laws- the indigenous peoples rights Act of 1997 provides for the
primacy of customary laws and practices in resolving disputes. Section 65 of IPRA provides that,
when disputes involve ICCs customary laws and practices shall be used to resolve the dispute.
10.Adjudication Services
-The IPRA requires the NCIP to resolve all claims and disputes involving rights of ICCs/IPs, subject to the
provisions of the IPRA and its implementing Rules, other regulations, and relevant jurisprudence, through its
Regional Hearing Offices (RHOs) and the Commission En Banc (CEB) and in the exercise of its quasi-
judicial powers.
With the aforementioned mission, the NCIP analyzes matters presented to it for adjudication through the
RHOs and CEB in the capacity of a quasi-judicial tribunal.
Following proper proceedings and hearings, the NCIP resolves the issues filed for adjudication.
REFERENCES:
 Ncip.gov.ph.(n.d.)”Programs/National Commission On Indigenous People”

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NCIP (National Commission on Indigenous Peoples)

1.Ancestral Domain/Land Recognition

4.IP Education and Advocacy Services

5.IP Culture Services

6.IP Health Services

7.Gender and Rights-based Services

8.IP Rights Advocacy and Monitoring of Treaty Obligations

-it has three components

 Ncip.gov.ph.(n.d.)”Programs/National Commission On Indigenous People”

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