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KtindgAn ocial publicaon of the IPDEV Project, Empowering Indigenous Peoples in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao

Volume 2 Issue 7 * October, 2013 * 24pages

DevelopmentConsultants Inc.

Recognition of the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao forEmpowerment and Sustainable Development (IPDEV) is a project implemented by the consortium: KonradAdenauer Stiftung e.V., Institute for Autonomy and Governance (IAG) and DEVCON Development Consultants Inc.

THIS PROJECT IS SUPPORTED

BY THE EUROPEAN UNION

D E V C O N

ISSN 2345-8461

WHATS INSIDE?

3 - To break the silence6 - Breathing life into IP farming pracces9 - Going beyond duty9 - IPDEV radio program airs12 - Snapshots: Discovering best pracces14 - NCIP in ARMM, why not?15 - To Give what is righully theirs18 - Firming up every step20 - A ritual of approval22 - A simple Menuvu wedding


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Kndg, in Teduray roughly meansstanding up for something, makingone be seen and be felt among themany. The word is not far from theCebuano, Tagalog or Maguindanaovariaons of ndog, ndigand ndegrespecvely. It is a ng tle for aregular publicaon that aempts tocapture the experiences gatheredin this journey of recognizing therights of the Lumad in the ARMM.

With this issue, we would like tothank everyone supporng the

projects aims, and acknowledgethose who are always striving tomake IPDEV as fruiul, meaningfuland sustainable as possible. You makeIPDEV a connously inspiring project.

Fiyo teresang!

facebook.com/ipdevarmm

To nd out moreabout IPDEV:

@kend3g

for IPDEV videos andradio recordings.

Texts and visual concepts:ROMMEL G. REBOLLIDO

in coordination with IPDEV


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IPDEV ADVOCATE MS. FROILYNMENDOZA WROTE A LETTER

TO HER FELLOW INDIGENOUSPEOPLES ON JULY 18, 2013.MENDOZA IS ONE OF TWO

IP REPRESENTATIVES TO THETRANSITION COMMISSION,

TASKED TO HAMMER OUTA BASIC LAW FOR THE

BANGSAMORO, AN ENTITYSET TO REPLACE THE

AUTONOMOUS REGION

IN MUSLIM MINDANAO, ARESULT OF ON-GOING PEACE

NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THEPHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT

AND THE MORO ISLAMICLIBERATION FRONT.

To break

the silenceMY BELOVED Indigenous Community withinand outside the core area of Bangsamoro:

I aended a forum ( on July 17, 2013) organized by Instute for Autonomy andGovernance where the Annex on Wealth Sharing was discussed. This is part ofthe Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB) that would serve as guidefor the Transion Commission members in draing the Bangsamoro BasicLaws (BBL). Just like the earlier contents of the FAB, there is no involvement ofthe Indigenous Peoples in the Wealth Sharing. It was never menoned in theAnnex signed by the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the Moro IslamicLiberaon Front (MILF). Clearly, the FAB and the Annex on Wealth Sharing issilent on the Indigenous Communies.

While the division, paron and tax imposion on the natural resources


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August 2013Tiyawan Video Documentaryon Indigenous ConflictResolution is released

August 3, 2013Maiden broadcast of BalitangLumad on DXMY, 10-11amSaturdays

MILESTONES

& EVENTS

of the Bangsamoro has been discussed as guidance forthe Annex, I sll look for the principles of the IndigenousCommunies principles that have been transferred andshared by my Ancestors. I am an indigenous person and Iremain true to the perspecve as IP; this is why I lookedat every page of the Annex on Wealth Sharing and lookedfor words that tell about protecng Mother Earth. Thereis no such statement in the spulated paron and tax

imposion that menoned about it. It is sad and alarmingif this would be the basis of the Bangsamoro Economicpackage. Would this mean to say that we will be openingthe Bangsamoro to a comprehensive and wide-scale miningthat would consequently destroy our Mother Nature? Wehave depended on Nature for the longest me, now it isour Nature who depends on us; And now, Mother Earthis in great pain and agony.

Maintaining a good relaonship between people with

their environmental space is important in our principles something that may be simple but it is noble, a proof thatthe Indigenous communies connuously put into praccetheir felindagan or cosmos, ke etew or identy.

There was a consultaon conducted together with thedierent tribal leaders within and outside the core areasof the Bangsamoro to get their inial understandingpertaining the Bangsamoro Basic Law. They looked intothe basic principles and policies, rights of the Indigenouspeoples, scope of power for instuons to be installedwithin and outside the core areas, relaonship of theBangsamoro to the Naonal Government, revenue

generaon and wealth sharing, ancestral domain, and theadministraon of jusce. There is a connuous process ofconsultaons, geng and accommodang suggesons onthese important maers.

There is a strong call from the Indigenous Communiesto: Recognize the disnct identy of the IndigenousCommunies within and outside the core areas, includingthe recognion of one important component and that isthe Ancestral Domain and their inherent rights. These are

the important components that have been le silent inthe FAB and the Annexes. If this would be granted withclarity, then the Indigenous Communies will have a clearunderstanding of the system of paron of the natural

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August 5-6, 2013Conference on MuslimHistoriography AfterMajul, National HistoricalCommission

August 9, 2013World IP Day

Theme: HonoringAgreements

August 14, 2013Stakeholders PledgingSession

resources.Meanwhile, there are important quesons that need to

be answered: How will the Indigenous Communies view the

dierent development projects that will enter within theirAncestral Domain?

How will the nave tle be treated as well as therights of the Indigenous Communies pertaining to this?It is clear as stated in the Framework Agreement on theBangsamoro (FAB) that the draing of the BangsamoroBasic Law shall agree on the Internaonal guidelines suchof that spulated on the United Naon Declaraon onthe Rights of the Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and theInternaonal Labor Organizaon (ILO) 169. These lawsare implemented or observed in the Philippines throughthe Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (IPRA). According tothe law, the Indigenous Communies have royalty share

and priority rights including the free and prior informedconsent on any development project that will enterespecially to their Ancestral Domains.

I want to end this silence. I want to search for answersto the quesons and apprehensions relang to this veryimportant discussion because the future of the IndigenousCommunies will not be far dierent from what they haveexperienced underR.A 9054, if this will not be given clarityin the Bangsamoro Basic Law.

Respecully yours,FROILYN TENORIO MENDOZA

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August 23, 2013Inputs on IP Issues to theUNICEF Review of 2005Gender Guidelines forHumanitarian Workers

August 16, 2013Courtesy visit to newlyappointed NCIP Commissionerfor South Central MindanaoBo-I Era Espana

August 14, 20136th Project SoundingBoard Meeting

Breathing life

into IP farmingpractices

A SUMMARYONE lamentable reality is that moreindigenous peoples now praccechemical farming.

Whizzing by rice and corn eldsalong the countrysides, you couldactually miss the awesome andrelaxing green scenery with all those

huge placards and signs bearingsuch explosive names as Dynamite,DynaForce, Wallop and so on,seemingly blasng away the alreadyvanishing indigenous pracces inagriculture.

What seems cruel is that IP farmersare being ensnared into usingchemical-based farm inputs by oers

of beer yield and revenue coupledwith free tshirts, caps, jackets orumbrellas.

IPDEV, however, found out thereare sll many IPs who are aware ofindigenous and sustainable pracces enough basis to revive, revitalize, andupgrade their me-tested naturaland sustainable way of farming andother agricultural pracces.

The project embarked on a three-pronged training program designedfor the four indigenous tribes in 80barangays in the Autonomous Regionin Muslim Mindanao. These are theTeduray, Lambangian and DulanganManobo in Maguindanao and

Higaonon in Wao, Lanao del Sur.Some 180 individuals were selected

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August 27, 2013Roundtable Discussionon IP MandatoryRepresentatives

August 26, 2013Continuation of Training onCampaign and AdvocacyManagement; IP CommunicationsGroup Organized

August 28, 2013Participation in theLaunching of OurMindanao ofMindaNews

to undergo 3-day trainings in batcheson Sustainable Agriculture, UplandFarming and Coastal ResourceManagement. These selectedparcipants, trained by experts, willtransfer and apply the knowledge they

learned in their respecve barangaysor villages.

The trainings were conducted inbatches from September 10 to 12and 17 to 20 in Upi, Maguindanao.Another set of training was scheduledon November 5-6, 2013, at barangayMilaya, Wao, Lanao Del Sur, amountain-locked town. They will be

introduced to Korean method in hog

raising and bamboo handicra .During the trainings, the parcipants

showed great interest in praccalps on goat raising as well as vermi-composng which they founddoable and economically helpful.

They saw the economic value ofdiversied farming thru agro-forestry;the technical bending technique oncoee and organic vegetables.

In an earlier acvity, IPDEV broughtbatches of farmers from the fourindigenous tribes in ARMM to DonBosco in Makilala, Cotabato Province,for an exposure and at the same me

provide a venue for an exchange in

ideas on their respecve indigenousagricultural pracces and how bestthey can be improved on.

The acvity allowed an opportunityfor the IPs to retrace a historicaltransect on indigenous agricultural

pracces, and realized that theirfarmlands used to be producve unlthe entry of Green Revoluon inthe 70s, which a decade aer andunl the present, chemical farmingproved to be a disaster, especiallyto small farmers like them and theenvironment.

IP farmers who are used to

subsistence farming were also lured

IP farmers are beingensnared into using

chemical-based farm inputsby oers of beer yield

and revenue coupled withfree tshirts, caps, jackets or

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by promises of chemical farming andhave become mono-crop mindedplanng only one popular (placard-borne) variety of corn. Many of thembecame debt-ridden with their landsfalling to lenders as loan-guarantee.

As such, they could not aord goodeducaon for their children.In the same acvity, they were

told that ecology is the backboneof sustainable agriculture and thateverything is interrelated.

Many IP farmers realized that Evenif a farm is in the farthest mountain,the chemicals they use will aect

them and their community - Thechemicals you use will seep into theriver and go into the sea. The salt youuse in cooking comes from sea water.It is possible that you will ingest thevery chemicals you use in your farms!

The IP farmers commied to doaway and campaign against chemical-based farming and work to promote

tradional farming (kaingin)- tagad

in Teduray, which involve harrowingbefore planng, the bayanihan systemof helping one another, sharingof harvest to the neighborhood suunos in Teduray, hand shelling,hauling of harvested crop manually orby farm animal.

Already, the Dulangan Manobofarmers have started a zero-chemicalintegrated farming by planng 100coconut seedlings and 200 rubberseedlings in their farmlands. Theseedlings came from th provincialgovernment.

Councilor Fred Ibanez, an IP

Mandatory Representave to thetown council of Upi in Maguindanao,commied to pass a resoluonbanning the use of herbicide in histown.

What could be among bestapproaches in empowering indigenouspeoples than allowing them to breathelife into an already fading tradion in

indigenous agriculture.

August 30, 2013Courtesy visit tonewly-appointedNCIP Chair Atty LeonorQuintayo

August 28, 2013Participation inPakighinabi: Peace Lens

September 2013Continuation of Trainingon Campaign & AdvocacyManagement


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A YEAR and a half into itsimplementaon, the project reportedits ndings on how to pursue neededresponses with clear and relevantiniaves or undertakings.

Such was presented before 40 guests

and parcipants of the StakeholdersPledging Session conducted byIPDEV on August 14, 2013, at the IAGConference Hall.

The event was aended by newlyappointed commissioner for CentralMindanao Bo-i Era Espaa of theNaonal Commission on IndigenousPeoples (NCIP), who was the main

guest.

Having been updated by the report,Espaa commied to seriously followthrough the Ancestral Domain Claimof the Teduray, Lambangian, andDulangan Manobo which was led in2005 and is sll languishing with NCIP.

ARMM Governor Mujiv Hatamanarrived just in me to see the reporton the ndings.

A surprised IPDEV Project ManagerAveen Acua-Gulo said We have beeninving him in many of our acvies,but, much to our desire to have him

join us, we fully understand his busyschedule. Yet, he came today.

Acua-Gulo showed in her

presentaon that the TLADMADC(Teduray Lambangian DulanganManobo Ancestral Domain Claimants)have already secured funds from theEuropean Union and the ChrisanChildrens Fund (CCFD) which will be

used to conduct the needed survey.Also, the funding gap is already

being looked into by the InternaonalLabor Organizaon, she said.

The same group of claimants havealready been assisted by NCIP Region12 Oce to come up with their workand nancial plan, and that only awork order from the NCIP main oce

is needed to get things going.

STAKEHOLDERSPLEDGING

SESSION Going

beyondduty

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September 4-6, 2013Input of IP issues intothe ARMM StrategicPlanning with CSOs

September 5, 2013Meeting of Governor MujivHataman and NCIP Comm.Bo-I Era Espaa on IPRAimplementation in ARMM

September 2013Trainings on SustainableAgriculture, CoastalResource Management,Upland Development


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Addressing the stakeholders andparcipants, Hataman pointed outthat his presence in the StakeholdersPledging Session is proof of hiscommitment to have the AncestralDomain Claim delineated by therighul government agency, which isthe NCIP.

My work with the IPs in theARMM started long before I becamea congressman, the ARMM governorsaid. As a congressman, I led aresoluon against the intrusion of biglogging companies in Upi. Now that Iam in the ARMM, my support will nowbe in the bigger context.

Hataman said, I am Moro yet I

am also a minority. That is why I feel

what you are going through. Througharrangements made by IPDEV, we lasttalked to the NCIP in June. But I havenot heard from them since that me.

I dont think it is right that IPDEVwould be the one more acve infollowing this through. It is themandate of regional government toprotect the interests of the IPs in theARMM. We have fully studied the legalimplicaons, and in our meeng withNCIP in the presence of presidenalpeace process adviser Deles andgovernment peace negoang panelchair Ferrer early this year, nothing isprevenng them from coming to theARMM, Hataman further said.

Hataman expressed hope that

NCIP can send them a dra of thememorandum of agreement soon.

This way, he said, the delivery ofbasic services will be faster.

He prodded the NCIP to have thecourage to set up the NCIP-ARMM.I will provide you with an oceright inside the Oce of the RegionalGovernor. My prayer is simple: that

before I step down to usher the entryof the Bangsamoro enty, this issue ofthe IP (delineaon) will be completed.I am a minority, and I am one with youin your struggle.

To work things out, he suggested,three persons from the NCIP andthree persons from the ARMM will beappointed to compose the technical

working group.

September 2013Trainings for VolunteerPara-Technicians

September 10-14,2013 Women inNormalization WeACT

September 13, 2013UNDRIP Day Celebration: Tikaf(Foxtail Millet) harvest on MtFakal, Planting of coconutseedlings in Upi Agri School


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DXMY 729 Khz

Saturdays 10am - 11am

The IPDEV radio program aired itsmaiden broadcast on August 3, 2013,over local radio staon DXMY (or RMNCotabato).

It is a community radio show formainstreaming the Indigenous Peoplesagenda within the Autonomous Regionin Muslim Mindanao. One can listen to

issues, concerns, and updates everySaturday from 10am to 11am. Anyonecan also follow the live broadcast viainternet at www.ustream.tv/channel/dxmy-cotabato.

The radio show is anchored by anIPDEV sta with the parcipaon ofIP leaders and resource persons thatdiscuss topics on IP-relevant issues,

milestones and events.The tle of the radio show is

Balitang Lumad. The program designalso allows for audience parcipaon- with excing rewards and giveawaynoveles.

IPDEV radio

program airs

Balitang Lumad

September 14, 2013Kamamaal Kaadatan (Keeper ofKnowledge) Orlando RendawMosela goes on live radiointerview on Balitang Lumad

September 21, 2013Paralegal Training

September 23, 2013Review of Guidelinesfor IP MandatoryRepresentatives

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Discovering

best practices

THE long trip to Compostela Valley(ComVal) province in Mindanaossoutheastern poron on June 18proved fruiul for the 24 men andwomen from the Teduray, Lambangian,Dulangan Manobo and Higaonon

Tribes from the Autonomous Regionin Muslim Mindanao.

They found out for themselveshow fellow Indigenous Peoples fromthat place - the Mansaka, Mandaya,Manobo, Dibabawon, Mangguanganand Kagan, confront and overcomechallenges as they live with theircustomary pracces and me-testedtribal laws.

Best tradional pracces and tribalgovernance along with the supportof government shield the IPs fromexploitaon and abuse, said ShirleyIguianon, provincial ocer of theNaonal Commission on IndigenousPeoples.

What the IPs in ComVal now have,however, was not readily servedbefore them. They worked hard forit. Aer long, arduous years of followup, of course, with the unrelentlessfacilitaon of the local NCIP andinformed support from the ComVallocal government, they were ableto get their Cercates of Ancestral

Domain Titles (CADTs).The IPs from ARMM also learned

how the six tribes in ComVal arecondent with their knowledgeand skills, allowing them to say noand present sustainable opons innegoang with banana plantaons,mining rms and logging companies.

They stand as co-equals in managing

resources that are within their

SNAPS FROM THE COMPOSTELA VALLEY EXPOSURE TRIP


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ancestral domain.The group also went to Pamulaan,

or beer known as IP University inMintal, Davao City, where they saw

how educaon using indigenousknowledge, skills and pracces(IKSPs) are being maximized to reviveleadership structures that havesurvived thousands of years.

They saw how these IKSPs will forfythemselves in facing up and adjusngto the seemingly insurmountableinuence of external governance

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Gov. Mujiv Hataman could not havesaid it beer, to raise the hopes ofthe Indigenous Peoples within thecore territory of the Autonomous

Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).The authoritave statements e thecentral message of his speech duringthe mul-stakeholders forum thatwas facilitated by the IPDEV on August14, 2013 in Cotabato City.

With these, Hataman punctuatesthe long-standing alibi of theprevious regional administrations

that the ARMM could not implement

the IPRA to secure the interests ofthe IPs because the NCIP has no legalmandate in the region.

Amid grateful smiles and resounding

claps, Hatamans declaration partsthe veil of desperation that hasdampened the hopes of the IPs inthe ARMM for so long. These are the

Tedurays, Lambangians, DulanganManobos of Maguindanao Provinceand including some Higaonons,Agusan Manobos, Talaandigs, and

Tigwahanons residing in Wao, Lanao

del Sur.

NCIP says that it is notauthorized to operate within the

ARMM. I ask, who told you thatyou are not mandated to assistthe IP within the ARMM. I amtelling you, no one is prevenngyou from assisng the IndigenousPeople or the tribal people withinthe ARMM. The NCIP should takethe courage to establish NCIP-

ARMM. I will provide an oceinside the Oce of the RegionalGovernor. The NCIP Region XIIwill just have to establish anoce in the ARMM. The RegionalGovernment will assist in fasttracking the process for [thesurvey of] the Ancestral Domain

claim.

NCIP in ARMM,Why not?

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September 26, 2013Sharing of UN VolunteerAlumni on current Engagementswith new UNV CountryRepresentative Soo-Jin Chen

September 26, 2013Orientation onRegistration of IPOrganizations

September 28, 2013Video Documentation ofPaksul II: Hill 224, A YearAfter


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To give what is

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THE journey for Lumad recognion inthe ARMM did not start yesterday, lastyear or in the last decade.

Like many of its fellow Lumads inMindanao, it has suered, in thewords of researchers minorizaon

with the entry of selers and theirdierent versions of development.

Right aer the EDSA Revoluon,a bill for Indigenous Peoples Rightswas led, in the same year that abill creang an autonomous regionin Mindanao was led. Today as weall celebrate the 18th Celebraon ofthe Internaonal Day of the Worlds

Indigenous Peoples, let us recall somemarkers in recent history.August 9 is the date declared by the

UN General Assembly in Decemberof 1994 and was celebrated the yearaer.

Year 1997 was a landmark periodfor the Indigenous Peoples in thePhilippines. It was the year that a law

protecng the rights of Indigenous

As pacts and agreements were forged

orally in the ways of our forefathers,

manifestaon of this Word of Honor

is the issuance of the Cercate of

Ancestral Domain Title.

September 28-29, 2013Participation in theSemeyaan Festival,Libungan, Cotabato

September 25, 2013Participation in theSecurity Summit,Ateneo de Davao

September 29-30, 2013Participation in theBangsamoro TransitionCommission Consultationson IP issues


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Glimmer of Hope

Twenty-seven years aer EDSARevoluon, sixteen years aer thepassing of IPRA, ten years aerResoluon 269, ve years aer MMAA241 it was pronounced by the

ARMM Government early this yearthat there is no legal impediment inimplemenng the IPRA in the ARMM.Moreover, the newly appointedmembers of the Naonal Commissionon Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) have

just assumed oce in August 1.Though long in coming, these two

developments provide a glimmer of

hope in the journey of the Lumad

Peoples was passed. What took aboutthree years to pass a law creang theARMM took 11 arduous years for IPRAto be passed.

IPRA as we all know seeks torecognize, promote and protect therights of the Indigenous Peoples.These bundle of rights include theRight to Ancestral Domain; the Right to

Self-Governance and Empowerment;Social Jusce and Human Rights; andRight to Cultural Integrity.

In 2003, the Regional Legislave

Assembly adopted Resoluon No 269

to ensure the applicaon of IPRA in

the ARMM; and mandang the Oce

of Southern Cultural Communies to

formulate the implemenng rules andregulaons.

In 2005, Resoluon No 119

was passed by the Regional

Legislave Assembly approving the

implementaon of Resoluon No 269for the delineaon of the ancestral

domain claims of the non-Moro IPs in

the ARMM.

In 2006, Administrave Order No 1was issued these are guidelines in

the implementaon of the Free and

Prior Informed Consent or FPIC. FPIC

is the consensus of all members of

the Indigenous Cultural Communies

which is determined in accordance

with their respecve customary laws

and pracces that is free from any

external manipulaon, interference

and coercion and obtained aer

fully disclosing the intent and scope

of the program/project/acvity, in a

language and process the communityunderstands.

In 2007, the United Naons

Declaraon on the Rights of IndigenousPeoples (UNDRIP) was passed.

In 2008, Muslim Mindanao

Autonomy Act 241 or what is beer

known as the Tribal Peoples Rights

Act, was passed. The implemenng

rules and regulaons were reviewed

and nally passed ve years aer, in

2012.

October 1, 2013Inputs on Designing the NewBangsamoro Electoral Systems(IFES)

October 1, 2013Teduray Ancestral DomainSustainable DevelopmentProtection Plan (ADSDPP)Adoption and & Ritual


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in the ARMM. It is hoped that theendless passing around of the Lumadsin the ARMM, marginalized as theyare, would nally come to a stop.

As this years theme is: IndigenousPeoples Building Alliances: HonouringTreaes, Agreements and other

Construcve Arrangements, wesupport the call of the Lumads in theARMM for the NCIP to look at IPRAagain as the governments peaceagreement with the IndigenousPeoples. As pacts and agreementswere forged orally in the ways of ourforefathers, manifestaon of thisWord of Honor is the issuance of the

Cercate of Ancestral Domain Title

(CADT).The Lumads in the ARMM Teduray,

Lambangian, Dulangan Manobo andHigaonon need all the support theycan get. From us who are in privilegedposions, let this be a call. Rememberthat we, too, at certain points in our

history, also suered oppression fromthe powerful and the mighty. Let usnot be the oppressors of today bydepriving the Lumads of what arerighully theirs. As Nelson Mandelaquoted Williamson in his inauguralspeech: Our deepest fear is notthat we are inadequate; our deepestfear is that we are powerful beyond

measure. Let the implementaon of

IPDEV project manager Aveen Acua-Gulo delivered thisstatement of support to the Indigenous Peoples during acelebration marking the 18th World Indigenous Peoples Day

on August 9, 2013, in Cotabato City, Philippines.

IPRA be the legacy.On behalf of our operang partners

the Instute for Autonomy andGovernance (IAG), Konrad AdenauerSung (KAS), and DevelopmentConsultants (DEVCON); fundersEuropean Commission (EC) andGerman Government IPDEV asan independent enty reiteratesits support to all iniaves that willrecognize the Lumads in the ARMM fortheir empowerment and sustainabledevelopment. Meuyag!

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THE Sixth Project Sounding Board(PSB) on August 15, 2013, took upfor review major breakthroughsfor the quarter like the capacity-building acvies conducted in 80barangays, parcularly trainings onTribal Governance & Jusce Systems,Free Prior and Informed Consent(FPIC), Para-legal and AdvocacyManagement.

The trainings in the barangayscovered 2,840 individuals whichinclude 1,494 or 53 percent malesand 1,346 or 47 percent females.

In terms of peoples distribuon,

there were only a handful of Moroand non-IPs or about four percentwho aended the trainings.

There was an overwhelming2,706 parcipants who belong toeither Teduray, Dulangan Manobo,Lambangian, Higaonon and other IPgroups. As for sectoral distribuon ofthe parcipants, some 1,166 are withthe women sector, 933 are farmers/sherfolks, 352 tribal leaders , 186with the Barangay Local GovernmentUnits, 160 from the youth sectorand 43 from other sectors

(educaon, business, professionals).

Notably, the least aended trainingacvity was in Gata, Wao in Lanaodel Sur where there were only 21parcipants while the barangaywith the highest parcipaon wasin Mirab, Upi in Maguindanaowith 59 parcipants and in Kuya,also in Upi, with 54 parcipants.

The board also discussed majordevelopment at the naonal levelparcularly on the new leadership ofthe Naonal Commission on IndigenousPeoples (NCIP) with the appointmentof Ay Leonor Quintayo as chair of the

commission. Ay. Quintayo used to

6THPROJECTSOUNDINGBOARD

Firming up

everystep

DEVCONs Irene Dillo, IPDEVs Aveen Acuna-Gulo& Miriam Fischer and IAGs Benny Bacani honored

former NCIP Commissioner Santos Unsad with theIPDEV plaque of appreciaon


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be with NCIP Region XI in Mindanao.The appointment of Quintayo

came as IP leaders from all overthe country urged the governmentto overhaul NCIP for its allegedlackluster to non-performance of itsfuncons to uphold IP rights; apartfrom holding a controversial recordon favoring mining companies on the

issuance of FPIC cercates whileignoring rights of IPs to their lands.A peon paper forwarded to

President Benigno Aquino III calledon government to revamp the NCIPto remove those who have beenproven to work against the rightsand interests of IPs and support acomprehensive independent iniave

to review the implementaon of the

Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (IPRA).NCIPs record as of December 2010,

shows that only 156 cercates ofancestral domain tle were issued toclans covering 4.3 million hectares ofwhich only 37 CADTs were registeredcovering some 936 hectares.

There are an esmated 7.5 millionhectares of IP lands in the country.

Much noceable among IPleaders is the quick issuance ofFPIC cercates favoring moneyed-mining companies as comparedto slow issuance of CADTS to IPs.

The PSB, done quarterly, is anadvisory group of 15-20 members fromdierent stakeholders who providefeedback and guidance on issues arising

in the course of the projects lifeme.

NCIPs record as of

December 2010, showsthat only 156 certificates ofancestral domain title wereissued to clans covering

4.3 million hectares ofwhich only 37 CADTs wereregistered covering some936 hectares.


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THE ADOPTION OF THE TEDURAY ADSDPP

A ritual ofapproval

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POMP and color marked the daywhen Teduray people went out oftheir way to take part in rites leadingto the adopon of their AncestralDomain Sustainable Developmentand Protecon Plan (ADSDPP).

The Teduray people came in theirbest as they gathered for the KanduliTemulak Matun Fenturoy, a ritual.

The event in October 1 also usheredin the month-long observance of 2013Indigenous Peoples Month, making itmore memorable and meaningful tothe Teduray who put up the Kanduli,sealing the adopon of the ADSDPP.

The ADSDPP, as adopted by theTeduray tribe, was craed over aperiod of 17 months, through a series


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... a territory that hasbeen passed on by theirancestors for centuriesthrough oral tradion,using natural markers

like rivers, rocks, treesamong others.

their rights over a territory that hasbeen passed on by their ancestors forcenturies through oral tradion, usingnatural markers like rivers, rocks, treesamong others.

The IP concept of ancestral domain isprivate land owned by a community,

in this case, the community is theTeduray people.

Like most other IPs, the Teduraystend not to resort to violence whenharassed. Such nature may haveemboldened individuals and groupswho turned Teduray ancestral landsinto camps of revoluonary groups,or subdivided into municipalies, andtled as their own by polical families.

In the past, Tedurays who edatrocies by intruders, would ndlogging sites and plantaons in theirreturn to the lands they le.

What remains so far of the Teduraydomain is 309,720 hectares, consisngof 215,941 hectares of land and 93,779

hectares of coastal waters.

of consultaons and dialogues amongleaders and constuents.

With its adopon, the TedurayADSDPP becomes a blueprint orreference, that any developmentprogram or project that is introducedwithin their ancestral domain shall bepursued in keeping with the Teduraysindigenous knowledge, skills andpracces (IKSPs).

It is because the ADSDPP is anexpressed manifestaon of the needsand aspiraons of the Teduray people.

It is a binding instrument that lists theTedurays own policies, mechanisms

and strategies for the sustainablemanagement and development ofall resources within the domain, toinclude cultural and human resourcesas called for in Administrave OrderNo 1 Series of 2004 of the NaonalCommission of Indigenous Peoples.

To many Tedurays, the adoponof their ADSDPP marks a special

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TRADITIONALLY, marriage ceremonies among IndigenousPeoples in the Philippines have their own twists and turns.

That, did not escape Cebuano Mario Catubay Jr, when hetook for his wife Juvy, a full-blooded Erumanen Ne Menuvuand a lone daughter at that.

Mario described that union rite as A very simple yet someaningful wedding.

It took place on that evenul April 16, 2003. Mario thenworks for indigenous communies and sll connues to doso as Community Development Specialist of IPDEV.

A well-known tribal leader in the person of TimuayFausno Taburo ociated the Manobo wedding in oneend of Akir-akir (Agkir-agkir) mountain range, specicallylocated at sio Baganalan, Mapurok, Alamada in Cotabato.

The event actually runs for three days starng with

Abeton ta kayu on the day before the wedding, with theman fetching water or bring two bundles (man and wife)of rewood to the womans home. If the parents of thewoman throws them away, no wedding takes place. Ofcourse, it goes without saying, Marios rewood bundleswere accepted.

On D-Day of the wedding, Adboron boron or a fesvepreparaon takes place at the grooms house, where kinsand relaves of the groom gather.

At the brides home, the women are in Gebubong

One will be full of pinch aerthe seven turns. The snging

pinch signies the acceptance

of the relaves and the

community. This is the happiest

part of the ceremony.

A simple Menuvuwedding


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where the bride and all other ladies encircling her, aretotally covered with blankets. The blankets representsprotecon from possible bad spirits. The ladies serve as

the brides maids called srpu.Yells of Tehoy (sounds as ya!ya!ya! yohoy!) could then

be heard as the mans party march merrily by the womanshouse. This signals the womans party that the men arecoming for the wedding.

As they enter the womans house, the grooms partypays the Rdtan, sort of an entrance fee which whenaccepted, allows the mans party to connue marchingmerrily seven mes around the woman with brides maidssll fully covered in blankets, while yelling ya!ya!ya!yohoy! (tehoy). This signies a march through the altar

And while they are marching, the relaves of the womanwould literally pinch anyone of the marching party. Onewill be full of pinch aer the seven turns. The sngingpinch signies the acceptance of the relaves and thecommunity.This is the happiest part of the ceremony.

Luwsn then takes place as the man removes the

blanket and happily takes his woman. The relaves thenjoyfully yell. This means that the wedding has been signedby God (Krnen).

The man then does the Ulamby, by sing beside thele side of the woman and put his arm across her shoulder.This signies their being one.

Ply-plyon would then be done to the pair by theirrespecve fathers who will simultaneously lay them downmomentarily and bring them again to sit up. This move

means only death can put the man and the woman apart.

The ceremony further goes with Sungity with thegroom and bride pung food into each others mouth.Food here is represented with mama (beetlenut chew)

and sigupan (tobacco).The gesture means that what the man eats can also be

eaten by the woman.The Timuay then slaughters a young chicken, pulls out a

feather and dip it into the chicken blood and smears it tothe mans and womans palms.

What the Timuay did is Pmaras/Plangsa, aconrmaon in front of God and people that the two arenow man and wife.

The Timuay then embarks on a rather long sermonPmandu, talking about loving each ones relaves anda serene and abundant life.

The wedding rites enter its third day with PnhunanT Maselm or the test for serenity and good life. Themorning aer the wedding, the newly weds are instructedto go to a nearby water (creek) and listen to the silence,and for the man to bring rewood in returning home.

Going out early morning and listening to water and thesilence inspires serenity in mind and life, while the bringingof rewood is an inspiraon not to go hungry in life.

The couple will then eat together for the rst me(Pdthunan). The parents keenly observe what part ofthe chicken dish any of the newly weds take rst.

If any of them take the chicken legs, it is a bad omen. Itmeans a life in hunger.

Mario rst took the wings and head. Wings means good

life, and head means becoming a leader.


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