The Department of Education (DepEd) allotted P100 million to finance education capacity-building initiatives for indigenous peoples (IPs).
The IPEd program responds to the indigenous peoples’ right to education that is “responsive to their context, respectful of their identity and supportive of the value of their indigenous knowledge, skills and other aspects of their cultural heritage.” The money may be used to fund at least 3 major purposes -- 1) train DepEd teachers and personnel to be effective IPEd implementers, 2) build advocacy and partnership programs within DepEd and other organizations, and 3) establish "baseline and situational analysis” on IPEd in order to create a database for the IPs. Reports Rappler.