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The Philippine National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights (NAP-BHR) is currently being developed to implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. The NAP-BHR creates a strategic framework for protecting human rights from business-related impacts and ensuring corporate accountability.
Towards this end, the Land Justice Initiative Project (LJI) jointly organized the workshop “Towards a Philippine National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights (NAP-BHR): Strengthening Protection for Indigenous Peoples and Ancestral Domains (Part 1) with the Presidential Committee on Human Rights Secretariat (PHRCS) and the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) on 15 July 2025.
The workshop was held at the Department of Migrant Workers Multipurpose Hall of the Susan V. Ople Building in the City of Makati and brought together 78 participants from national government agencies to begin the process of crafting the NAP-BHR, which will initially focus on indigenous peoples’ rights and ancestral domains as part of its comprehensive approach to enhance access to effective remedies for affected communities.
The workshop has been jointly organized by the Presidential Human Rights Commission Secretariat (PHRCS), National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP), Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC) and Kaisahan tungo sa tungo sa Kaunlaran ng Kanayunan at Repormang Pansakahan (KAISAHAN) with the funding support from the European Union (EU) through the Land Justice Initiative Project.
