2 The implementation of these projects have benefited seventy-six thousand eight hundred twenty-seven (76,827) ICCs/IPs. Strategically, NCIP employed the Integrated Ancestral Domains Development Approach (IADDA), a mechanism designed to support the implementation of the Ancestral Domain Sustainable Development and Protection Plans (ADSDPP). IADDA also is a point of convergence among government agencies that carries Programs, Activities, and Projects (PAPs) intended for the ICCs/IPs. Hence, IADDA is a comprehensive, integrated and wholistic approach in delivering basic services to ICCs/IPs and empowering themselves to sustainably manage their ancestral domains. Moreover, as NCIP targets holistic integration of programs, activities and projects which enables the Indigenous Peoples (IPs) to exercise their primal rights, the right to self-governance and empowerment and social justice and human rights are also given with utmost importance. Such that under Program 3: Indigenous Peoples Rights Protection Service, NCIP has spurred the implementation of twenty-six (26) Gender and Rights-based projects. Twenty-three (23) Indigenous Peoples Rights and Advocacy Monitoring and Obligation activities and projects completed. In the exercise of its Quasijudicial function, seventy-six (76) cases were disposed and three hundred fourteen (314) cases were acted upon. There were thirty-eight (38) legal service projects implemented and eight thousand four hundred eighty-one (8,481) Indigenous Peoples (IPs) received legal assistance. “Convergence for IP Empowerment towards comfortable life”, was the theme of the 21st Celebration of the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (IPRA). NCIP believes that in 2018 we did not disappoint our stakeholders, the Indigenous Peoples (IPs), because we painstakingly work hard through culturally sensitive programs and projects to help them attain a comfortable life. NCIP will never get tired of doing this noble labor and in the coming years to come, we will incessantly be there for our IP brothers and sisters.