b. Adhere to the customary laws and recognize the Indigenous Knowledge
Systems and Practices (IKSP) of the ICCs/IPs together with the
intellectual property rights thereon, if any, in accordance with the
applicable provisions of the IPRA;
c. Recognize the ICCs/IPs' preferential rights to benefit from the natural
resources found within their ancestral lands/domains jointly
documented and confirmed pursuant to this Order;
d. Institutionalize the traditional and culture-driven sustainable forest
resources management systems and practices, policies and customary
laws of the ICCs/IPs; and
e. Formulate appropriate policy/ies consistent with the in-depth study and
evaluation of the documented STIFRMSP based on their defined culture
and existing customary laws/ traditions.
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2.2. Specific Objectives:
a. To institutionalize the consultative, collaborative effort and consensus
building processes between and among indigenous socio-political
institutions including its leadership system, local government units
(LGUs), the DENR, the NCIP and other concerned agencies/offices/
organizations for the enhancement of appropriate indigenous
practices of forest resources management a s a mechanism to be
effected in the community as a whole;
b. To strengthen and enhance the applicable/effective sustainable
traditional indigenous forest resources management systems and
practices that are innovative, as indigenous socio-political catalyst in
the implementation of forest management schemes within forest
lands;
c. To adopt the experiences, informative insights gained and lessons
learned in the implementation of these sustainable traditional and
indigenous forest resources management systems and practices in
sparsely or marginalized forests and wherever applicable;
d. To recognize each sustainable traditional indigenous forest resources
management system and practice having the maintenance and
enhancement of the watershed areas including its biodiversity as the
primary purpose and the personal uses thereof secondary, such as:
(1)areas for planting of agricultural crop; (2) source of construction
materials for residential homes and other wood products for home
use; and (3) areas where to gather forest products on a regulated
basis for livelihood and entrepreneurship development; and
e. To strictly adopt and monitor compliance of resources utilization and
impose penalties a n d sanctions in case of violations thereto in
accordance with the respective customary law applicable in the
traditional management units and/or community/clan-owned
woodlots.