Social Protection Support Project (RRP PHI 43407-01)

INDIGENOUS PEOPLE PLAN

1. The project includes around 9,000 indigenous peoples' (IP's) households in three
selected regions as its beneficiaries. IP households are among the poorest and most
marginalized in the Philippines. The purpose of the IP assessment and measures is to outline
the potential impacts of the project on IPs; specify actions to address the impacts; and help
improve the distribution of project benefits to IP groups.

2. The below actions will support integration of IPs needs and interests into each of the
project outputs, and ensure effective participation and access to the benefits of the project.
Where impacts on IPs are positive, measures will be identified to enhance and ensure equitable
sharing of benefits. Where impacts are potentially negative, appropriate mitigation measures will
be identified. The below table outlines anticipated positive and negative effects and
recommendations to enhance/mitigate impacts.
Anticipated Anticipated
Project Output Proposed measures to mitigate impact
Positive Effect Negative Effect
Output 1: • Poor IP HHs • Possible • IP tribal leaders to be identified and oriented on the
Efficient benefits from exclusion of NHTS-PR
implementation 4Ps poor IP HHs • Disseminate information in IP language and
of a national • Inclusion of residing in through local media and channels accessed by IPs.
targeting system poor IP remote/ hard to • Coordinate with NGOs working in IP communities
to select poor households in reach areas to disseminate information and schedule
households the NHTSPR due to lack of assessments at dates and times convenient for IP
database and information women/community.
selected as and absence • Provide orientation to assessment staff on IP
prospective from locality situation and issues.
poor during survey • Ensure assessments include data on remote and
beneficiaries of hard-to-reach areas, migrants, IPs, those in
social stigmatized occupations, etc.
protection • Ensure that assessment results are analyzed and
programs by included in the database to provide a nuanced and
other national comprehensive understanding of the vulnerabilities
development of the above groups. This information in the
programs. database to be available for other social protection
and poverty reduction programs (so as to facilitate
availability of information on extreme poor and
marginalized groups and development of
appropriate strategies to reach these groups).
Output 2: • Reduced • Perpetuation of • Disseminate information on 4Ps program through
Conditional maternal traditional local channels and media accessed by IPs and in
health and mortality and gender roles IP language
education cash infant morbidity • Increased • Ensure bank accounts opened are in the name of
grants are and mortality workload for women IPs (except when male single HHs are
provided to poor • Improved women targeted)
households school • Some • Support referrals to service providers for literacy
attendance members of and numeracy training
rates HHs of • Provide intensive training on use of ATM and cash
polygamous cards
unions may be • Explore provision of transport assistance through
excluded. LGU or NGOs/CS organizations to IP HHs who
have to travel long distances to get their grants
• Mobilize IP tribal leaders to advocate compliance to
conditionalities and promotion of joint home care
responsibilities.
• Develop language and culturally appropriate family
development sessions.
• Ensure that training materials for illiterate IPs

 
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Anticipated Anticipated
Project Output Proposed measures to mitigate impact
Positive Effect Negative Effect
include pictorial and other forms which they are
able to understand.
• Through monthly meetings, support organization of
IP HHs around their rights and familial/community
issues.
• Develop guidance on how to support polygamous
HHs with cash grants.
• In remote areas, undertake assessment of and
coordination with local NGOs and other non-state
health and education service providers so as to fill
gaps in government service provision and support
inclusion of IPs living in these areas.
• Consult KALAHI-CIDSS and NGO service
providers in engaging IP communities in the
development process.
Output 3. • Program • No foreseen • Target recruitment of 10% women and 12% total
Strengthened implementers negative IP MLs in IP areas or ensure that IP are hired for
capacity for able to effects ML positions in proportion to the IP beneficiaries
CCT Program effectively • Provide intensive training and coaching to IP staff
operations engage IP to ensure skills development
communities • Provide orientation on IP situation and issues and
effective ways of dealing with IPs to all existing and
new staff at various levels in 4Ps.
Output 4. • Better tracking • No foreseen • Conduct study on IP situation to identify gender
Improved of program negative related cultural norms and practices to minimize
systems for outcomes and effects exclusion of IP women and better respond to their
monitoring and impacts needs.
evaluation of • Lessons • IP specific equality indicators to be included in
social protection learned on M&E system.
programs effective ways • Collect sex-disaggregated data regularly and
of engaging IP analyze it to inform policy and program planning for
women and IPs.
men • Yearly and mid-term reviews will consider gender
and ethnicity specific challenges and concerns
• Documentation of best practices in gender
sensitive interventions for IP communities will be
undertaken.
• Lessons learned will be shared with other
programs and agencies working with IP
communities.
4Ps = Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (Building Bridges for the Filipino Family Program), ATM = automated
teller machine, CCT = conditional cash transfer, CS = civil society, HH = household, IP = indigenous peoples,
KALAHI-CIDSS = Kapit Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services, LGU =
local government unit, M&E = monitoring and evaluation, ML = municipal link, NGO = nongovernment organization,
NHTS-PR = national household targeting system for poverty reduction.
Source: Asian Development Bank.

3. Implementation Arrangements. The implementation arrangements and estimated

costs of the actions are integrated into the overall arrangements and total budget of the Project.
A national and regional gender and development and IP focal persons will be recruited to
ensure the implementation of the actions. The actions will be monitored as part of the overall
system of the project and data collected will be disaggregated by sex and ethnicity. Progress
reports will provide updates on the benefits and challenges related to IPs. Yearly and mid-term
reviews will undertake course corrections based on updates, as necessary.