A listing of maps produced through PGIS methodologies. These maps depict the boundaries of the Ancestral Domains and Traditional Lands of our partner Indigenous Communities and other pertinent geographical information.. The data has been generated by the communities through sketch maps, 3D-models and other participatory methodologies which have been undertaken by the community and the PAFID. All of the information in these maps have been validated by the community and depict their own perception of time area and space.

A compilation of digital spatial data with themes on land Cover, Land Use, Mining Tenements, Permits, Protected Areas, waterhseds, and Ancestral Domains. To accomplish tihis task, support was provided by the Alyansa Tigil Mina, FPE and the MISEREOR. click here

A listing of Participatory 3D-models constructed by PAFID and partner-communities in the Philippines. click here

Indigenous Peoples Rights Act or RA 8371 (pdf)

A short paper detailing the Mapping and Delineation of the Ancestral Waters and Lands of the Tagbanwa Peoples of Coron, Island, Northern Palawan. This paper was presented during a Conference on NGO Best Practices sponsored by the USAID and the Coalition of Development NGOs in the Philippines (CODE-NGO) held in the Mercure Hotel, Davao City Last March 1999. (pdf)

Republic Act 8065, The Magna Carta of the Geodetic Engineering Profession, passed on February 18, 2003. Provisions of the law has serious implications with the principle of self-delineation of the IPRA. (pdf)

Bringing the Vertical Dimension to the Negotiating Table, A Preliminary Assessment of a Conflict resolution Case in the Philippines. A paper on the conflict resolution initiative in Balbalan, Kalinga, Philippines, using Participatory 3D-Mapping methodologies. By. Giacomo Rambaldi, Sahlee Bugna, Angela Tiangco and Dave De Vera (pdf)

Mapping Today and the Future: Participatory Mapping and Planning with the Talaandig in Bukidnon, Mindanao, Philippines. De Vera, 2006 (pdf)

The Tenurial Situation of Indigenous and Local Communities in SEA: Regional Experiences, Practices, Policies and Issues. De Vera, 2007 (pdf)

A country Profile of IPs in the Philippines, 2007. De Vera (pdf)

Mapping with Communities in the Philippines: Challenges and Responses, Presented during the Participatory GIS Conference, KCCT, Nairobi, Kenya, September 7-10, 2005, Dave De Vera
Philippine Association For Intercultural Development, (pdf)

Task Force Cumadun: Collaborative Planning for an Ancestral Domain, David E. De Vera and Raquel M. Zingapan, Philippine Association For Intercultural Development, Inc., The International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) (pdf)

Communal Title: A valid option for Indigenous Filipinos?, PAFID, 1991 (pdf)