● There should be more intense discussion on impacts of climate change on food production with the indigenous communities; and how they can adapt; ● Provide more technical and financial support for combatting the impacts of climate change; ● The Philippine government must prioritize and include as part of their COVID-19 responses - access to maternity care, pre- and post-natal health care, availability of an accessible health care facility within their community and a free and easy-to-access healthcare procedures that are culturally sensitive and non-discriminatory and that also recognizes indigenous medicine and health practices; ● Include mental health support programs in the health services for the communities; ● Utilize government resources to support indigenous women in their leadership roles such as mediating peace and facilitating humanitarian response; ● Install local disaster-emergency response mechanisms that encourage and strengthen community participation, particularly that of indigenous women and girls; Policy ● Ensure the meaningful participation of indigenous women at all levels and include them in planning, consultation, implementation, and monitoring; ● Indigenous agricultural practices and knowledge must be recognized and provided with technical and financial support; ● Institutionalize inter-agency collaboration between the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) and other relevant agencies to provide appropriate, relevant support for indigenous women and girls (i.e. with the Department of Education, or with Department of Agriculture, or Department of Health); ● Government offices, especially those whose mandates have specific interests to protect, promote and fulfill indigenous women’s rights (i.e., NCIP, PCW, DILG, LGUs), should exercise such mandate with urgency and with constancy; ● Conduct dialogues and consultations with indigenous women to collaboratively determine solutions and responses to the challenges they face, especially amidst the pandemic and in the upcoming elections; ● Regular monitoring and documentation of the situation of IP communities particularly of women and children; ● Develop and implement policies that strengthen and institutionalize support for access and control of women over their land and natural resources; ● Implement R.A. 8371 or the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act fully; RA 9710 or Magna Carta of Women; and R.A. 10068 or the Philippine Organic Agriculture Act; ● Review and repeal laws that institutionalize red tagging or criminalization of human rights defense work, such as R.A. 11479 or the Anti-Terrorism Law; Page 9 of 206