Recognizing and promoting the rights of the indigenous cultural communities, the Department of Agriculture (DA)-Western Visayas’ organized a two-day consultative and participative meeting with the indigenous people (IPs) in Laua-an and Valderrama, Antique to validate their proposed projects under the Kabuhayan at Kaunlaran ng Kababayang Katutubo (4Ks). Some 50 IPs representing the cultural communities of Brgy. San Ramon, Maybunga, and Guiamon from the Municipality of Laua-an, and Brgy. San Agustin, Brgy. Busog, and Brgy. Culyat from Valderrama shared their identified projects during the assessment workshops. Workshop processes include reviewing the Ancestral Domain Sustainable Development and Protection Plans (ADSDPP), grouping per community, identifying project activity, physical targets, and number of beneficiaries, and plenary reporting as well as critiquing.

Agri-fishery projects for IPs in Antique assessed. (2021, March 23). Panay News, p. 13.