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Traditionally the Indigenous Cultural Communities in general live a nomadic life as hunters and practice “slash and burn farming”. But with the current state of our forests with depleted food resource and limited capability to sustain life, the indigenous peoples’ fight for survival has become a big challenge.
Realizing this, MIPCPD tried to advocate IP concerns to the different agencies and private sector. But as the saying goes, the best way to emancipate from poverty is by helping oneself. Thus, MIPCPD made an inventory and identification of model communities that will be prioritized for the implementation of a liberating and self-help approach of development through the “Adopt a Tribal Community” program.
Currently there are government programs with the participation of private sector which focuses on the Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries [ARBs] the coverage of which does not overlap with ancestral domains; thereby excluding the Indigenous Peoples in the Agricultural Upland Development Programs. It is on this premise that MIPCPD fills in the gap by exerting efforts to empower Indigenous Cultural Communities by introducing self-help strategies in developing and managing resources within their primary communal property — the ANCESTRAL LAND.
Updated by: Alvin Sison – April 06, 2023