“What we are promoting is IPSSDD. It means sustainable development which you have the right to decide upon. It’s a development that does not destroy the environment.”
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Founder and Executive Director of Tebtebba, remarked during the opening session of the Orientation on Indigenous Peoples’ Sustainable and Self-Determined Development (IPSSDD) of Ganak da I-Licoy that sustainable development is the kind of development that will provide growth and progress.
About 24 elders and members of Ganak da I-Licoy in Paracelis, Mountain Province in the Cordillera region of the Philippines participated in the learning sessions on IPSSDD last 8 to 11 June 2022 in Baguio City. The sessions focused on elaborating the integrated and holistic approach to the self-determined and sustainable development of indigenous peoples which, for years, has been the framework of Tebtebba and ELATIA partners in community development.