proposal for the IPs because they are not trained. We do the proposal suited their needs. You have to go to Provincial and Municipal Offices to access this. It is one of our goals to give trainings to the IPs in creating livelihood proposal. We have committed a budget for the promotion and protection of the rights and welfare of IPs. Mr. Bugnay, IPMR Nueva Viscaya: This is regarding census, particularly to IPs. We need to have a dialogue. In our place the DepEd makes their survey to children only asking “What is your tribe?” Then the children cannot answer. They change the question “What is the language used in your home?” then the children answered “Tagalog” and therefore they are no longer belong to the IP community. We can only identify the IP through blood. Then again, some says they are IP because of the blood transfusion from IP. DSWD also had own IP survey, and there are some IP that are not included. Therefore some are not getting the right incentives for the IP. Ms. Baluyot, PSA: the word census is being used all the time. The DSWD census is not from PSA. The PSA is for the population and housing. That is the official statistics used in the Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) and in formulation of the policies. For the 2010 PSA census it covers all Filipinos nationwide and its profiling. It is not just IPs but rather ethnicity is just one item collected. It also collected the sex, date of birth, age, highest level graduated, occupation, disability (partial or not), housing unit (make shift or not), etc. We already collaborated with the NCIP to come up with the definition of the ‘ethnicity by blood’ for the 2010 census. We do follow the UN standard on ethnicity. In the US they use the word “race” i.e. Latino, Asian, etc. In the Philippines we have the IPRA law, and they use ethnicity and we follow that. We were advised to coordinate not only with the NCIP or NCCA but also to include the IPMRs in the Provinces. Mr. Cabonegro, CHR: There are a lot of projects and programs. Are they sufficient or not? Are they needed or not? How do we want to monitor this? Are there existing monitoring mechanisms for these? Do our monitoring mechanisms enough and sufficient? Is it effective or not? Let us then go for the next workshop. 54