IP STATEMENT OF PARTNERSHIP STATEMENT OF PARTNERSHIP Adopted in Baguio Conference on the IPs Right to Development Venus Parkview Hotel March 3, 2017 On March 2-3, 2017, 68participants from government agencies of the Philippines, together with the Indigenous Peoples Mandatory Representatives (IPMRs) of the six (6) regions of Luzon (Cordillera Administrative Region, Regions I, II, III, IV, V), and the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) convened in Baguio City, Philippines to review the efforts to protect and promote the Right to Development, focusing on the Filipino Indigenous Peoples. The Right to Development is an alienable human right by virtue of which every human person and all peoples are entitled to participate in, contribute to, and enjoy economic, social, cultural, and political development, in which all human rights and fundamental freedoms can be fully realized. The human right to development also implies the full realization of the right of peoples to selfdetermination, which includes, subject to the relevant provisions of both International Covenants on Human Rights, the exercise of their inalienable right to full sovereignty over all their natural wealth and resources. Government Agencies, such as the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP), Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC), Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB), Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE), Department of Agriculture (DA), National Housing Authority (NHA), Department of Education (DepEd), Social Security System (SSS), Department of Health (DoH), Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and Indigenous Peoples Mandatory Representatives (IPMRs) discussed their programs and projects that represent the conditions favorable to the realization of the Right to Development of Filipino IPs, and the mechanisms by which their implementation is being monitored. The participants identified challenges in the implementation and monitoring, such as insufficient budget, improper intervention of some politicians, and gaps in the existing policies of government that do not correspond or realistically address the needs of Indigenous Peoples. The IPMRs present during the conference recognized the efforts of the government as the dutybearer in rendering such programs and services pursuant to their Right to Development, while there is a need to capacitate the IPs to protect, promote, and fully grasp the normative contents of their rights and responsibilities. The 104