4 Tadem Indigenous peoples The work of Ayta-Mag-indi women in Porac, Pampanga Province in the Central Luzon region delves into culture-based women organizing to address emerging accounts of gender-based violence and to contribute to their people’s ongoing struggle for self-determination and culture-sensitive governance. The Ayta-Mag-indi are a peace-loving indigenous people. While they have struggled to preserve and bequeath their culture from one generation to the next, they have become vulnerable to the influence of outside cultures with many accounts of development aggression and multiple displacements. Meanwhile, the Save Our Schools Network is an alliance of child-focused NGOs, church-based groups, and other stakeholders advocating for indigenous children’s right to education. Since the establishment of alternative tribal schools in the 1980s, Lumad2 students and faculty have instituted the Bakwit School in Metro Manila as an expression of children’s resistance against attacks on Lumad education. Due to the worsening political conditions in Mindanao, the Bakwit School has remained in different university campuses and areas in Metro Manila to allow Lumad children to exercise their right to education. Conclusions, recommendations, and dissemination The last part of the report summarizes the research findings, draws conclusions, and compiles a list of policy recommendations for the government and the private sector to act on. These recommendations are mainly of an immediate and urgent nature and can be acted upon in the shortest possible time. Some medium-term solutions are offered as well. The authors of the report believe that all these can be adopted and implemented if the proper political will is surfaced and mobilized. The most basic of these is the proposal for a “whole-of-society” approach that brings together health experts, the relevant government bodies (including local government units), civil society organizations, sectoral groups, and the affected communities themselves to set aside their differences and work as one cohesive unit to address the most serious health crisis that the country and the world is currently facing. This analytical report will be followed by a much shorter think piece that will contain the key findings and recommendations as outlined in the longer report. The last part of the project will be to disseminate widely the research findings “to the public through social media, TV, radio, print media and other relevant means” (UNESCO 2020, 2). 2 “Lumad” is a collective self-ascribed designation for the more than thirty indigenous ethnolinguistic groups in the island of Mindanao in southern Philippines.