2. Provide secretariat support for all activities of the national inquiry. 3. Provide core funding for the major activities of the inquiry. 4. Call for press conferences, if any in relation to the national inquiry. 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), within this partnership shall: 1. Assign permanent representatives at the national, regional and local levels to any and all processes requiring their participation and involvement in the national inquiry. In particular, the agency representatives to the secretariat of the national inquiry will be tasked to provide technical and legal support and t o assist in the drafting of its reports and issuances; 2. Make available all relevant information, data and personnel as resource persons from their agencies as needed in the national inquiry, including providing legal opinion and official positions of the agencies; 3. Provide counterpart funding, as may be available, to cover travel-related expenses of their representatives as well as secretariat operation-related expenses, for relevant activities and processes of the national inquiry; particularly as regards to programs, projects, activities of the agency/organization related to realization of IP rights that may be covered by the inquiry; 4. Respect the independence of CHR to make a final review, assessment, adoption and publication of the final report of this inquiry, including its policy recommendations. The participants unanimously welcome and support the initiative to set up the IP Rights Observatory (IPRO), and the conduct of inquiries. Adopted by acclamation, 03 March 2017, Baguio City. 106

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