“Daytoy Community-Based Monitoring and Information System (CBMIS), first time daytoy nga mapasamak ditoy Paracelis. Adu iti napasamak [nga surveys panggep community tayo] ngem gobyerno iti nagaramid. First time nga specific nga grupo iti focus (This is the first time that a Community-Based Monitoring and Information System (CBMIS) initiative will happen here in Paracelis. The government conducted many similar surveys here in the past but it is the first time that a specific indigenous group shall be the focus).”
Rogelio Banggot, a Ganak da i-Licoy leader and representative-coordinator of the Licoy indigenous people in the Paracelis Municipal Council, said that the CBMIS initiative would help consolidate and document the traditional knowledge and collective history of the Licoy community during his speech at the CBMIS Orientation of Enumerators for the Ganak da i-Licoy in Paracelis, Mountain Province, Philippines on 20 to 21 October 2022.
Descendants of the i-Licoy indigenous people by blood or affinity, the Ganak da i-Licoy enumerators were oriented on the CBMIS, its different survey tools, and how to properly conduct the said surveys in the community, keeping in mind the necessity of being courteous, respectful, and culturally sensitive when visiting the different households.
Florence Daguitan, coordinator of Tebtebba’s Philippine Program, stressed that the results of the CBMIS were vital as consolidated information would reflect the actual lived realities in the grounds, thereby allowing the conceptualization of initiatives that aim to properly address the needs of the specific communities and promote indigenous peoples’ sustainable self-determined development. The orientation-workshop was conducted with support from SwedBio.
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Roger Lambino of Tebtebba leading the participants as they do an ice breaker during the training.]