NATIONAL

COMMISSION ON
INDIGENOUS
PEOPLE
MODULE 14-15
 A. What government
Engage agency is responsible for
the protection of the
indigenous people in the
Philippines?
B. What are the powers,
mandates, and major
programs of the National
Commission on Indigenous
People?
Explore
Tell something about the
created article about
National Commission on
Indigenous People.
Explain NATIONAL
COMMISSION
ON
INDIGENOUS
PEOPLE
Administrative Order No. 1 Series of
1998
Organizational Structure
 1. Ancestral Domains Office (ADO)

Offices 2. Office on Policy, Planning, and Research

3. Office of Education, Culture and Health
within 4. Office on Socio-Economic Services and
Special Concerns
NCIP 5. Office of Empowerment and Human
Rights
6. Administrative Office
7. Legal Affairs Office
8. Office of the Executive Director
Powers
and
Mandates
The NCIP is endowed with
quasi-judicial, quasi-
legislative and executive
functions. According to
Section 44 of the IPRA, the
powers, jurisdiction and
function of the NCIP are
the following:
• To serve as the primary government agency
through which IPs/ICs can seek government
assistance and as the medium, through which
such assistance can be extended;
• To review and assess the conditions of
IPs/ICCs including existing laws and policies
pertinent thereto and to propose relevant laws
and policies to address their role in national
development;
• To formulate and implement policies, plans,
programs and projects for the economic, social
and cultural development of the IPs/ICCs and
to monitor the implementation thereof;
• To request and engage the services and
support of experts from other government
agencies or private experts and consultants as
may be required in the pursuit of its objectives;
Powers
• To issue certificates of ancestral land/domain title;
• Subject to existing laws, to enter into contracts,
agreements or arrangements with government or

and private agencies or entities as may be necessary to

attain the objectives of the IPRA, and subject to the

Mandates
approval of the President, to obtain loans from
government and lending institutions to finance its
programs;
• To negotiate for funds and to accept grants,
donations, gifts and/or properties in whatever form
and from whatever source, local and international,
subject to the approval of the President, for the
benefit of IPs/ICCs and administer the same in
accordance with the terms thereof; or in the absence
of any condition, in such manner consistent with the
interest of IPs/ICCs and existing laws;
• To coordinate development programs and projects
for the advancement of IPs/ICCs and to oversee the
proper implementation thereof;
Powers
• To convene periodic conventions or assemblies of
IPs to review, assess, as well as propose policies or
plans;

and • To advise the President on all matters relating to

the IPs/ICCs and to submit within 60 days after the

Mandates
close of each calendar year, a report of its operations
and achievements;
• To submit to Congress appropriate legislative
proposals intended to carry out the policies under
this Act;
• To issue appropriate certification as a pre-condition
to the grant of permit, lease, grant, or any other
similar authority for the disposition, utilization,
management and appropriation by any private
individual, corporate entity, or any government
agency, corporation or subdivision thereof, or any
part or portion of the ancestral domain taking into
consideration the consensus approval of the
IPs/ICCs concerned;
Powers
• To decide all appeals from the decisions
and acts of all the various offices within the
Commission;
and • To promulgate the rules and regulations
for the implementation of this Act;
Mandates • To exercise such other powers and
functions as may be directed by the
President; and
• To represent the Philippine IPs/ICCs in
all international conferences and
conventions dealing with indigenous
peoples and other related concerns.
Major
Programs • Land tenure security
• Community development
program
• Enforcement of IP rights
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COMMISSION
ON
INDIGENOUS
PEOPLE
Administrative Order No. 1 Series of
1998
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