Army. AFP-NCIP MOU to benefit IPs in Panay

From the Philippine News Agency (Oct 26): Army. AFP-NCIP MOU to benefit IPs in Panay

Army soldier "Bayanihan"-Teams will soon join the National Commission on Indigenous People and Indigenous Cultural Communities/Indigenous Peoples in conducting survey and delineation activities in central Panay to address challenges on IPs ancestral domain. In its email dispatch, Army spokesperson Maj. Enrico Gil Ileto said a Memorandum of Understanding, crafted by Region 6 NCIP, the Army’s 3rd Infantry (Spearhead) Division (3ID) in consultation with Panay island ICCs/IPs, is now on its way up to be signed at the Dept. of National Defense and NCIP national level. The Army spokesperson said the MOU would also allow activities within the military reservation area in parts of Tapaz and Jamindan, both in Capiz which aims to determine metes and bounds of the ancestral domain of the IPs in central Panay. He said the NCIP shall undertake the survey in coordination with the Armed Forces, Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources, and the ICCs/IPs of Jamindan and Tapaz towns.

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