b) The equitable distribution, selection and implementation of scholarship programs;
c) Appropriate career development;
d) Training of teachers for IP communities;
e) Construction of school buildings in IP communities;
f) Inclusion of IPs resistance to colonization in the academic curricula, in the context of IPs
assertion and defense of their freedom, independence and territorial integrity and culture; and
g) Establish schools for living traditions and cultural heritage.
RULE VI: CULTURAL INTEGRITY
Section 1. Constitutional and Legal Framework. The State shall recognize, respect and
protect the rights of ICCs/IPs to preserve and develop their cultures, traditions and institutions,
and shall take measures, with the participation of ICCs/IPs concerned to protect their rights and
guarantee respect for cultural integrity in order that ICCs/IPs shall at all times benefit on an equal
footing from the rights and opportunities which national laws and regulations grant to other
members of the population.
It shall recognize its obligations to respond to the strong expression of the ICCs/IPs for
cultural integrity by assuring maximum ICCs/IPs participation in the direction of education,
health, as well as other services to the ICCs/IPs, in order to render such services more responsive
to the needs and desires of these communities.
Section 2. Conceptual Framework of Cultural Integrity. Cultural integrity shall refer
to the holistic and integrated adherence of a particular ICC/IP community to their customs,
religious beliefs, traditions, indigenous knowledge systems and practices and their right to assert
their character and identity as peoples.
Section 3: Right to Cultural Integrity. The rights of indigenous peoples to cultural
integrity shall include:
a) Protection of indigenous culture, traditions and institutions;
b) Right to establish and control educational and learning systems;
c) Recognition of cultural diversity;
d) Right to name, identity and history;
e) Community intellectual property rights;
f) Protection of Religious, Cultural Sites and Ceremonies
g) Right to indigenous spiritual beliefs and traditions;
h) Protection of Indigenous Sacred Places
i)
Right to protection of indigenous knowledge systems and practices; and
j)
Right to science and technology.
Section 5. Protection of Indigenous Culture, Traditions and Institutions. The NCIP
in its coordinative role and through the IP Desks of government line agencies, particularly with
the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), Department of Trade and Industry
(DTI), Department of Tourism (DOT), Department of Justice (DOJ), Department of Education,
Culture and Sports (DECS), Commission on Higher Education (CHED), National Commission
for the Culture and the Arts (NCCA), and other government agencies or instrumentalities, shall
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