70 k. l. m. n. o. p. ADIPH Formulations done back-to-back with other projects Hospital Visits Feeding programs IEC on Health Promotion and Prevention Disease Surveillance and Case Finding/ Disease Prevention Representations to various IP health concerns PROGRAM 3 – INDIGENOUS PEOPLES RIGHTS PROTECTION PROGRAM A. Gender and Rights-based Services The sub-program aims to ensure that indigenous socio-political, cultural and economic rights are respected and recognized. Also, to capacitate the ICCs/IPs through instituted capacity building mechanisms and for them to be afforded of every opportunity, if they so choose, to participate in all levels of decision-making. One of the main components of Gender and Rights-based Services is the support to IP Representation on Policy and Decision-Making Bodies. Section 16 of Republic Act 8371 provides that the Indigenous Cultural Communities/Indigenous Peoples (ICCs/IPs) have the right to participate fully, if they so choose, at all levels of decision-making in matters which may affect their rights, lives and destinies through procedures determined by them as well as to maintain and develop their own indigenous political structures. Consequently, the State shall ensure that the ICCs/IPs shall be given mandatory representation in policy-making bodies and other local legislative councils. 1. Distribution of Indigenous Peoples Mandatory Representatives (IPMRs) per Region As shown in the Table below, as of December 31, 2018, a total of three thousand seven hundred seventy-one (3,771) Indigenous Peoples, disaggregated into male and female, were selected to seat in the various local legislative bodies – Sangguniang Pambarangay, Sangguniang Bayan, Sangguniang Panglungsod, and Sangguniang Panlalawigan.