a) Unauthorized negotiation with natural or juridical persons relative to land development, use, extraction, harvest, and exploitation of natural resources; b) Misrepresentation and entering into agreement or compromise with investors to the detriment of the community; c) Accepting bribery such as project contracts, gifts or donations in exchange of favors; d) Loss of trust and confidence of the members of the community; e) Violation of customary processes and community collective decision-making; and f) Other analogous circumstances. The cancellation proceedings shall be initiated by complaint with the NCIP Regional Office, who shall hear and decide the same and if warranted and upon due course order the cancellation of registration. The decision of the NCIP Regional Office may be brought on appeal to the Commission. The NCIP shall establish a data-base for indexing and monitoring all registered IPOs. Part III. Instrument of Empowerment Section 1. Inroads into the ancestral domains/lands of ICCs/IPs resulted to their disenfranchisement and marginalization. Policies, plans, development programs and projects which may have been prejudicial to the rights and interests of ICCs/IPs have been adopted and implemented within ancestral domains/lands without the consent of concerned IP communities. Free and prior informed consent, as an instrument of empowerment, enables IPs to exercise their right to self-determination. Section 2. General Application. The provisions herein on free and prior informed consent shall generally be applicable to all the provisions of the Act and these rules requiring the free and prior informed consent of ICCs/IPs. Section 3. Free and Prior Informed Consent. The ICCs/IPs shall, within their communities, determine for themselves policies, development programs, projects and plans to meet their identified priority needs and concerns. The ICCs/IPs shall have the right to accept or reject a certain development intervention in their particular communities. The acceptance or rejection of proposed policy, program, project or plan shall be assessed in accordance with the following IPs development framework and value systems for the conservation and protection of: a) Ancestral domains/lands as the ICCs/IPs’ fundamental source of life; b) Traditional support system of kinship, friendship, neighborhood clusters, tribal and intertribal relationships rooted in cooperation, sharing and caring; c) Sustainable and traditional agricultural cycles, community life, village economy and livelihood activities such as swidden farming, communal forests, hunting grounds, watersheds, irrigation systems and other indigenous management systems and practices; and d) Houses, properties, sacred and burial grounds. Section 4. Scope of ICCs/IPs whose Consent shall be Secured. The scope of the ICCs/IPs whose free and prior informed consent is required shall depend upon the impact area of the proposed policy, program, projects and plans, such that: a) When the policy, program, project or plan affects only the particular community within the ancestral domain, only such community shall give their free and prior informed consent; Page 15