The Philippines

How is the Indigenous Obu Manuvu Community Facing the COVID-19 Crisis in the Philippines?

The Indigenous Obu Manuvu community of Davao City on Mindanao Island, Philippines owns over 13,000 hectares of ancestral forests. By engaging the Obu Manuvu “Pusaka” cosmology, they manage these ancestral forests as an ICCA to benefit biodiversity, regional economy and, more importantly their well-being and culture. This video highlights the value of their historical experiences with epidemics and how their time-tested adaptations helped them cope. Read more ▸

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Virtual Is the New Normal as ICCA Southeast Asia Holds 2nd Regional Assembly

Members, Honorary members, and partners from across Southeast Asia took to cyberspace for the 2nd Southeast Asia Regional Assembly from 1-4 June 2020. The regional council members and regional representation in the ICCA Consortium’s global Council were designated and the route forward for the region was collectively decided. Read more ▸

Second South East Asia Regional Assembly from 1-4 June

The gathering provides an online venue for sharing and learning from each other about the territories of life in the region. This year’s gathering has the further aim of continuing the ICCA Consortium’s regionalisation process in Southeast Asia. Check the programme! Read more ▸

Indigenous Youth in Action: First National ICCA Youth Exchange in Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines

Non-Timber Forest Products – Exchange Programme (ICCA Consortium Member) organized the first Philippine ICCA Youth Camp. Bringing together 22 youth leaders representing 12 different indigenous peoples’ organizations and indigenous cultural communities, it spurred plans for more youth participation in the promotion of ICCAs in the country. Read more ▸

Video Interview of Giovanni Reyes, Philippine ICCA Consortium President

Giovanni Reyes speaks with the GEF Secretariat about inspiring work on ICCAs–territories of life in the Philippines and the many contributions of indigenous peoples and communities to nature conservation around the world. Read more ▸

CALG Reflections and Impressions on the Environmental Defenders Workshop in Philippines

After sharing their experiences in an international workshop on environmental defenders, ICCA Consortium Member Coalition Against Land Grabbing reflects on risk-reduction strategies and the importance of maintaining a united front in the face of threats to territories of life and their defenders. Read more ▸

Enhancing the Sharing of Knowledge and Experiences on ICCAs in South East Asia through Webinars

A series of webinars is being organized as part of building shared capacity and understanding of ICCAs–territories of life in South East Asia. In the first webinar, representatives of the Working Group on ICCAs in Indonesia talked about the recently concluded mapping and documentation process of ICCAs in Indonesia. Read more ▸

The 9th Southeast Asian Conference on Human Rights and Business

During the conference held in the Philippines, delegates released the Bata’an Statement, committing themselves to continued collaboration on tackling business related human rights abuses in the region, as well as calling on businesses and states to address these abuses. Helen Tugendhat and Hannah Storey from Forest Peoples Programme (ICCA Consortium Member) share the outcomes of the event. Read more ▸

Southeast Asia Explores Sustainable Livelihoods within the Context of ICCAs

Participants from five countries gathered in Philippines for the ICCA Southeast Asia Regional Learning Network’s first event on Sustainable Livelihoods. They shared tools, strategies for local enterprises, and discussed how livelihoods need to be rooted in culture, territory, and strong traditional governance. Read more ▸

3rd National ICCA Conference in the Philippines Calls on Congress to Enact the ICCA Bill

For the third time in the Philippines, more than a hundred stakeholders from indigenous people as well as government agencies and civil society gathered to acknowledge recent gains in the recognition of ICCAs institutionalization and elaborate a plan to continue supporting ICCAs in the country. Read more ▸

UNDP bags ‘Development Aid of the Year Award’ for Biodiversity

UNDP Philippines received the “Development Aid of the Year Award” for Biodiversity. One of its commendable projects is the Philippine ICCA Project which aims at strengthening conservation by institutionalizing ICCAs as a sustainable addition to the national protected areas estate. Read more ▸

Two ICCA Consortium Members and Partners are granted “Keepers of the Earth Fund Award”

The Coalition Against Land Grabbing (CALG, Philippines) and the Coordinadora de Comunidades Mapuche-Williche “Willi Lafken Weychan” (Chile), ICCA Consortium Members and partners, were grant a “Keepers of the Earth Fund” small grant award by Cultural Survival. They are among thirty small grantees in 19 countries. Read more ▸

Philippine Indigenous Peoples Call to Uphold Traditional Governance in Protected Areas

An orientation and dialogue on the Expanded National Integrated Protected Areas System (ENIPAS) Law was held in the Philippines on March 25-26 with indigenous community leaders whose ancestral domains overlap with protected areas. It led to a historic declaration. Read more ▸

Five Indigenous People Communities in the Philippines declare their ICCAs

The Declaration is a culmination of more than a year of documentation-related activities, including boundary delineation, 3D and digital mapping, resource inventory, and documentation of indigenous knowledge, systems, and practices (IKSP). Read more ▸

In Defense of Human Rights: A Monitoring Report on Land Conflicts in Six Asian Countries

These monitoring reports were prepared, by ANGOC, an ICCA Consortium Member, in six Asian countries to understand the nature, causes, and impacts of land and resource conflicts, and to highlight the human rights issues intertwined with them. Read more ▸

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Regional Assembly Southeast Asia + West Austronesia

The Regional Assembly of the ICCA Consortium Southeast Asia and West Austronesia regions was held in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, on August 1-4, 2018. Read more ▸

The Tanabag Batak ICCA on Palawan Island

Emblematic ICCA The ICCA of the Tanabag Batak tribe is located in the Municipality of Puerto Princesa – western Philippines, in one of the… Read more “The Tanabag Batak ICCA on Palawan Island” ▸

“A Silent War is Being Waged on Philippine Indigenous Communities”

“You can keep shooting the messenger, but you will run out of bullets before we run out of messengers and, at the end of the day, the message will be heard.” Victoria Tauli-Corpuz – UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples writes about being added to the government’s terror list. Read more ▸