b) Establish and maintain a Museum, library and audio-visual arts center as a repository for the arts and culture of the IPs; c) To assist, promote and support community schools, both formal and non-formal, for the benefit of the local indigenous community, especially in areas where exiting educational facilities are not accessible to members of the indigenous group; d) Administer all scholarship programs and other educational projects intended for ICC/IP beneficiaries in coordination with the Department of Education, Culture and Sports and the Commission on Higher Education; e) Provide for health programs and services to the ICCs/IPs and promote indigenous health practices and the use of traditional medicine; f) Undertake a special program which includes language and vocational training, public health and family assistance program and related subjects. It shall likewise generate the necessary funds and technical support from other sources to augment the available appropriation; g) Identify members of ICCs/IPs for training in health profession and encourage and assist them to enroll in schools of medicine, nursing, medical technology, physical therapy and other allied courses; h) Deploy a representative in appropriate government offices who shall personally perform the foregoing tasks and who shall receive complaints from the ICCs/IPs and compel action from the concerned agency; and i) Monitor the activities of the National Museum and other similar government agencies generally intended to manage and preserve historical and archeological artifacts of the ICCs/IPs and shall be responsible for the implementation of such other functions as the Commission may deem appropriate and necessary. Section 5: Office on Socio-Economic Services and Special Concerns. The Office on Socio-Economic Services and Special Concerns shall serve as the office through which the Commission shall coordinate with pertinent government agencies especially charged with the implementation of various basic socio-economic services, policies, plans and programs affecting the ICCs/ IPs to ensure that the same are properly and directly enjoyed by them. It shall also: a) Formulate and implement a program of action which will bring agro-technological development among the ICCs/IPs, building upon existing customary practices and traditions; b) Facilitate the delivery of socio-economic services to the ICCs/IPs communities including, but not limited to infrastructure, extension, credit, financing, marketing, and other social services; c) Coordinate and collaborate with other government agencies for the formulation of policies, plans and programs that will ensure the alleviation, if not eradication, of poverty among ICCs/IPs; d) To promote and encourage cooperatives in accordance with the beliefs, traditions and customs of the ICCs/ IPs; e) To assist ICCs/IPs and coordinate disaster and relief operations in ICC/IP communities affected by natural calamities, disasters or catastrophes; f) Provide the indigenous women, youth and elderly with programs/projects for the improvement of their socio-economic conditions; and g) Perform such other functions as the Commission may deem appropriate and necessary. Section 6: Office of Empowerment and Human Rights. The Office of Empowerment and Human Rights shall ensure that indigenous socio-political, cultural and economic rights are respected and recognized. It shall: Page 34

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