Section 25. Determination and Manifestation of Customary Decision-Making Process. The customary decision-making process of the concerned ICCs/IPs shall be adhered to in securing their FPIC, i.e. whether the community decision is to be given by the elders/leaders, or by the community members involved through household representation or otherwise. The validated and recognized elders/leaders shall present their decision-making process during the Community Assembly for project provided under Section 6.A or during the First Meeting, for projects provided under Section 6.B. Members of the community present during the Community Assembly or the First Meeting, as the case may be, shall affirm the process presented by their recognized elders/leaders. Whatever the customary decision-making process may be, the requirement of consensus-building shall at all times be observed. Section 26. Conduct of Mandatory Activities for Plans, Programs, Projects or Activities covered under Section 5 (A) of this Guidelines. The FPIC Team shall ensure the conduct of the following mandatory activities/processes: a. Posting of Notices and Serving of Invitations. The FPIC Team shall cause the posting of notices in conspicuous places in and around the concerned ICCs/IPs community including the service of personal to the IP elders/leaders for a Consultative Community Assembly (CCA), specifying the date, time, venue, and agenda of the meeting. In cases of FPIC process prescribed under Section 27, the notice shall call for a First Meeting between the IP elders/leaders and the applicant. b. Consultative Community Assembly. The participants to the CCA are the elders or leaders, the representatives of IP households/families within the area affected, the representatives from the applicant, the FPIC Team, the representatives from development NGOs duly accredited by the NCIP and authorized by the Community present within the ancestral domain area, if there are any. After the validation of the list of elders/leaders as prescribed under Section 24 of this Guidelines, the applicant will be given in the said assembly. The Operation Plan and the scope and extent of the proposal shall then presented to the elders/leaders by the applicant for understanding, and shall given them the needed information supporting their proposal, including but not limited to: the cost and benefits of the proposal to the ICC/IP and their ancestral domains, presentation of perceived disadvantage or adverse effects to the community and the measures adopted by the applicant to mitigate these. In the discussions to follow, the other representatives will be given their turn in presenting their views to the proposal for the appreciation of the council of elders/leaders. The council of elders/leaders shall decide whether another meeting is necessary to complete the process. For purpose of paragraph (d) of this section, the elder/leaders, in the present of the participating household representatives affected by the project, shall make known to the applicant and to all concerned the decision-making process adhered to or practiced by the community. c. Consensus-Building and Freedom Period. After the termination of the CCA, the community, led by their elders/leaders, shall proceed to consult among themselves, employing their own traditional consensus-building processes in order to further discern the merits and demerits of the proposal in the CCA and to arrive at a consensus. Except for NCIP representatives who shall document the proceedings, non-members of the IP community are strictly enjoined from interfering with the consensus-building processes of the community. d. Decision Meeting. At the designate date, time, place, a meeting of the applicant and the elder/leaders facilitated by the FPIC Team, the elders/leaders will formally convey to the applicant the decision on the community members affected by the project as a result of the consensus-building process. If the consensus is favorable, the parties shall proceed to finalize the terms and conditions of the MOA. If the consensus is against the project, the leaders or elders will be required to submit their written decision in the form of a Resolution. Further, the applicant may ask the elders/leaders to explain the decision. If 11