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EXTENDED—Call for Proposals for UPD Arts & Culture Festival 2024

Posted on October 27, 2023 - 5:23 PM.

The deadline for submitting proposals for DACF 2024 is EXTENDED until 7 NOVEMBER 2023 (Tuesday).

UP Diliman Units, Offices, and recognized student organizations are invited to submit proposals for projects/events that align with the theme “Pamamalagi at Pamamahagi” of the UPD Arts and Culture Festival (DACF) 2024.

For more information, visit https://oica.upd.edu.ph/UPDACF2024/.

Projects with external funding are also welcome to submit proposals for inclusion in the omnibus program and calendar of activities.

For inquiries, please contact Ms. Christel Manalo through email at specialprojects_oica.upd@up.edu.ph.

Call for Applications (January to March 2024 projects)⁠—OICA Grants Program

Posted on October 27, 2023 - 3:21 PM.

We are now accepting applications for OICA Grants Program for projects/events which will be implemented from JANUARY to MARCH 2024.

Kindly submit a duly-accomplished project proposal form, a copy of your updated organization recognition/registration, and other requirements to grants_oica.upd@up.edu.ph on or before DECEMBER 1, 2023.

The implementing guidelines, procedures and project proposal form may be accessed at https://bit.ly/OICAGrants.

For further inquiries, please contact us at grants_oica.upd@up.edu.ph

Indigenous Peoples Month — October 2023

Posted on October 17, 2023 - 4:00 PM.

October is Indigenous Peoples Month. Learn about the rights of indigenous peoples and indigenous cultural communities in the Philippines as enacted in the Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Act of 1997 (IPRA).


What is IPRA?

Enacted on October 29, 1997, the Republic Act No. 8371 or the “Indegenous Peoples Rights Act of 1997” (IPRA) is an “act to recognize, protect, and promote the rights of indigenous cultural communities/indigenous peoples (ICCs/IPs), creating a national commission on indigenous peoples, establishing implementing mechanisms, appropriating funds thereof, and for other purposes.



Indigenous Cultural Communities / Indigenous Peoples (ICCs / IPs)

“a group of people or homogenous societies identified by self-ascription and ascription by others, who have continuously lived as organized community on communally bounded and defined territory, under claims of ownership since time immemorial”
—Republic Act No. 8371, Official Gazzette of the Republic of the Philippines


Rights of ICCs/IPs under IPRA

Right to Self-governance and Empowerment

Right to Ancestral Domains

Right to Cultural Integrity

Social Justice and Human Rights

National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP)

“the primary government agency mandated to protect and promote the interest and well-being of the ICCs/IPs with due regard to their beliefs, customs, traditions and institutions”

Indigenous Peoples Month

By virtue of Proclamation no. 1906, s. 2009, the Indigenous Peoples (IP) month is celebrated every month of October.

National Indigenous Peoples (IP) Day

By virtue of Republic Act no. 10689, August 9 is declared as “National IP Day”, which coincides with the “International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples observed on the same day.

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