It shall also identify ICCs/IPs with potential training in the health profession and encourage and assist them
to enroll in schools of medicine, nursing, physical therapy and other allied courses pertaining to the health
profession.
Towards this end, the NCIP shall deploy a representative in each of the said offices who shall personally
perform the foregoing task and who shall receive complaints from the ICCs/IPs and compel action from
appropriate agency. It shall also 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 NCIP may deem appropriate
and necessary;
d) Office on SocioEconomic Services and Special Concerns — The Office on SocioEconomic
Services and Special Concerns shall serve as the Office through which the NCIP shall coordinate with
pertinent government agencies specially charged with the implementation of various basic socioeconomic
services, policies, plans and programs affecting the ICCs/IPs to ensure that the same are properly and
directly enjoyed by them. It shall also be responsible for such other functions as the NCIP may deem
appropriate and necessary;
e) Office of Empowerment and Human Rights — The Office of Empowerment and Human Rights
shall ensure that indigenous sociopolitical, cultural and economic rights are respected and recognized. It
shall ensure that capacity building mechanisms are instituted and ICCs/IPs are afforded every opportunity, if
they so choose, to participate in all levels of decisionmaking. It shall likewise ensure that the basic human
rights, and such other rights as the NCIP may determine, subject to existing laws, rules and regulations, are
protected and promoted;
f) Administrative Office — The Administrative Office shall provide the NCIP with economical, efficient
and effective services pertaining to personnel, finance, records, equipment, security, supplies and related
services. It shall also administer the Ancestral Domains Fund; and
g) Legal Affairs Office — There shall be a Legal Affairs Office which shall advice the NCIP on all legal
matters concerning ICCs/IPs and which shall be responsible for providing ICCs/IPs with legal assistance in
litigation involving community interest. It shall conduct preliminary investigation on the basis of complaints
filed by the ICCs/IPs against a natural or juridical person believed to have violated ICCs/IPs rights. On the
basis of its findings, it shall initiate the filing of appropriate legal or administrative action to the NCIP.
SECTION 47. Other Offices. — The NCIP shall have the power to create additional offices as it may
deem necessary subject to existing rules and regulations.
SECTION 48. Regional and Field Offices. — Existing regional and field offices shall remain to function
under the strengthened organizational structure of the NCIP. Other field offices shall be created wherever
appropriate and the staffing pattern thereof shall be determined by the NCIP: Provided, That in provinces
where there are ICCs/IPs but without field offices, the NCIP shall establish field offices in said provinces.
SECTION 49. Office of the Executive Director. — The NCIP shall create the Office of the Executive
Director which shall serve as its secretariat. The Office shall be headed by an Executive Director who shall
be appointed by the President of the Republic of the Philippines upon recommendation of the NCIP on a