c) Regional Development Council representative d) NCIP Regional Technical Management Services Division Chief e) NCIP Regional Legal Officer f) Ethnographic Regional Consultative Body (ERCB) Chairperson The RTWG shall be supported and assisted by the following as Secretariat: a) DENR Protected Areas and Wildlife Division staff b) NCIP Regional Administrative Officer The RTWG shall have the following functions and responsibilities: a) Review consistency of the harmonized plans with existing laws, rules and regulations; b) Facilitate the consolidation/integration of plans by the concerned PTWGs where the overlap areas are located in more than one province; c) Prior to affirmation, validate harmonized plan with the PAMB and the IP community concerned; and d) Recommend amendments to existing related, or adoption of new, policies. The PTWG and RTWG may invite the assistance of other units of both agencies or other resource persons to effectively facilitate the accomplishment of the responsibilities of both Working Groups. Section 10. Management Authority. Overlapped areas shall be managed in accordance with the harmonized plan. The ICCs/IPs concerned shall have primary responsibility to maintain, develop, protect and conserve such overlapped areas with the assistance from the DENR and other concerned government agencies. Should the ICCs/IPs decide to transfer the responsibility over the areas to the concerned government agencies, the decision must be made in writing. Provided, that the transfer shall be temporary and will ultimately revert to the ICCs/IPs in accordance with the program for technology transfer. The PAMB shall manage portion of the protected area and/or its buffer zone which are outside the ancestral domain/land. Section 11. Monitoring and Evaluation. Monitoring and Evaluation System (MES) shall be developed and conducted by the DENR PAWCZMS or its equivalent, PAMB and NCIP field offices to assess management effectiveness and to ensure the protection and conservation of biological diversity within such overlapped areas. Section 12. Conflict Resolution. Should any conflict or dispute affect the harmonization of plans, it shall be assessed and resolved at the community level by way of conciliation or mediation with the assistance of the PTWG. Section 13. Funding. The DENR and NCIP shall jointly fund the implementation of this Joint Memorandum Circular. 5