(7) Enjoy a wholesome and healthy working environment free from any forms of life hazards and dangers and other conditions hazardous to their health, in particular through exposure to pesticides and other toxic substances; (8) Be free from any coercive recruitment system, including bonded labor and other forms of debt servitude; and (9) Equal opportunities and just treatment in employment for men and women, including protection against sexual harassment; b) Special Measures. The NCIP in close coordination with the Department Of Labor and Employment and such other related agencies shall adopt special measures to ensure the effective and legal protection of members of ICCs/IPs with regard to the following: (1) Recruitment and employment conditions applicable to workers in general; (2) Establishment of an IP Desk at the Department Of Labor and Employment (DOLE); (3) Protection of IPs right to affirmative action with regards to their employment in government and private undertakings by setting up mechanisms for the recruitment and hiring of IPs in proportion to their population in their areas of operation; and (4) Periodic monitoring of IPs employment with GOs, NGOs and private companies. c. The NCIP shall develop a Jobs and Employment Program for the appropriate training and placement of IPs, whether professionals, skilled or unskilled. The program shall assess and determine the number of unemployed and underemployed IPs and establish training and placement procedure to assist IPs to meet job/employment demands. Section 5. Right to Basic Services. The ICCs/IPs are entitled to basic services. The equitable delivery of basic services to all ICCs/IPs all over the country shall be the focus of the NCIP’s Five Year Master Plan. In close coordination with other government line agencies mandated to deliver basic needs the NCIP shall work towards the establishment of IP Desks with such agencies but not limited to Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), Department of Health (DOH), Department of Education, Culture and Sports (DECS), Commission on Higher Education (CHED), National Housing Authority (NHA), Social Security System (SSS), Technical Education and Skills Authority (TESDA), National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA), Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and other offices for the delivery of basic services covering employment, vocational training and retraining, housing, sanitation, health, water, education, infrastructure, electrical facilities and social security. In consultation with ICCs/IPs the NCIP shall prepare a flexible Five Year Master Plan focused on the delivery of basic services by among other things doing the following: a) Census of IPs; b) Conduct needs assessment consultations with all ICCs/IPs and prepare an inventory of community identified priority basic services; c) Formulate and incorporate in the Five Year Master Plan, a special program for meeting the special needs of women, the elderly, youth, children and differently-abled persons; d) Provide technical and financial support services for the empowerment of ICCs/IPs to generate their own resources for basic services in their ancestral domains; and e) Collaborate with mandated government line agencies to establish IP Desks that will ensure and monitor the equitable, effective and efficient delivery of basic services to ICCs/IPs by the particular agency/or agencies; and support for the sustained utilization of indigenous selfreliant health care services by supporting traditional practices of prolonged breast feeding and use of herbal medicines. Page 20