Indigenous Peoples

Research study involving APC Grade 6 students: Performance in Basic Mathematics of Indigenous Students (2016)

APC shares the 2016 research study by Lolita V Sicat and Maria Elena D David from Tarlac State University analyzing the performance in mathematics of indigenous students from a public school in Capas, Tarlac (from the Aeta community) and from…
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Indigenous Peoples, Learning Institutions, and Schools

In May 2013, APC held a conference for three days in Bendum on developing management capacities in culture-based education in collaboration with the Indigenous Peoples Office of the Department of Education (DepEd) and gathered around 50 participants from learning centers…
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Negotiating Cultural Rights and the Rights to Culture: Case Studies and Lessons from Thailand (2013)

Kay Pitman The 1990s saw a growing demand in Thailand for communities to be included in decisions about the management of cultural and natural resources, culminating in the 1997 Constitution in which some of these rights were formalized. Recognizing that…
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Ancestral Land Titling in Limbo (2012)

Sylvia Miclat Pulangiyen tribal leaders discussing CADC application Last 25 January 2012, Joint Administrative Order (JAO) No. 1 was signed, effectively relegating the ancestral domain titling process to a joint national committee composed of four government agencies responsible for issuing…
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