38th Peoples’ Cordillera Day: Launching Of “Dawwang: Let The River Flow Free” Mural In Baguio City
As part of the upcoming celebration of 38th Peoples' Cordillera Day and Goethe-Institut's #MovementMoments project, artist groups in Baguio City launched a wall mural depicting the brave women of the Anti-Chico Dam struggle. The mural is directly...
Community–based Health Program: A Cordillera Community Experience
“Any successful strategy to address socio-economic disparities in health will need to be based on a recognition that the highest threat to health inequity is overall social inequity.” Cordillera Health Situation A defining feature of the...
Protect our vegetable farmers! No to vegetable smuggling and importation!
The losses incurred by vegetable producers due to the quarantine measures taken in response to the Covid-19 pandemic have recently been aggravated by the smuggling of cheap but unsafe vegetables from China. Highland vegetable farmers are alarmed...
EDUCATION IN THE NEW NORMAL: A Year of Modular Learning in Sagada
Education is among the worst affected sectors by the Covid-19 pandemic. Some schools especially private ones closed, teachers and other non-teaching staff were unemployed, and enrolment declined. Thus, to ensure continuous education during the...
Health Response to Covid-19 in the Cordillera
The Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) is a contiguous 1.8 million-hectare territory of 7 major groups of Indigenous Peoples and is the only region in the Philippines where Indigenous Peoples are the majority population. Composed of 6...
Statement by the Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera on the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
August 9, 2021 In commemorating today’s International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, we in CDPC reaffirm our commitment to march along with the Cordillera Indigenous Peoples in our quest for a development that is founded on human rights and...
Eliminating Discrimination Against Indigenous Peoples to Achieve SDG on Equality
Among the most aspired Sustainable Development Goals for indigenous peoples is SDG 10 on reducing inequality within and among countries. SDG 10 as set by the United Nations states that countries “By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic...
A National Food Summit Without Food Producers
“Ang food security ng Departamento ng Agrikultura ay hindi kailanman dumating sa lamesa ng katutubong mamamayan… Suportahan ang pagtatanim ng mga katutubo sa mga produktong kapakipakinabang, suportahan ang aming pagdepensa sa mga kagubatan...