The report, "No Data, No Story: Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines," was produced in response to the challenge of articulating meaningful and targeted poverty reduction strategies without reliable data on Indigenous Peoples (IPs). As such, the report is as much about the importance of data as it is about IPs themselves. It addresses the dearth of data in areas that matter to IP communities in the Philippines – population and demography, poverty and inequality, the status of Ancestral Domains (ADs), and the interactions between poverty, land, and conflict. What began as few simple questions – who are the IPs, what do we know about them, and what data do we have? – has resulted in the first World Bank assessment of the primary challenges confronting IPs in the Philippines.
The IP report launch was attended by the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP), Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Asian Development Bank (ADB), Tebtebba Foundation, Legal Network for Truthful Elections (LENTE Philippines), International Alert, and colleagues from the academe and media.