NATRIPAL- SURUBLIEN KAT KAGAYNAN The proposal envisions our indigenous communities with improved human well-being supported by our land and sea’s sustained ecosystem services through the protection,security and management of our ancestral domains that would enable us to be productively engaged in inclusive economic growth. The project consolidates NATRIPAL’s vast experience obtained from years of active participation in development projects. We shift from a project perspective to a life-long vision that takes all our experiences, resources, and lessons learned and use them to enhance our cultural beliefs, systems, and mechanisms. Our proposal focuses on three major priorities: 1) Secure our ancestral domains to empower us in prioritizing our needs, assume responsibilities over our decisions, and lead development efforts in our communities, 2) Protect our natural resources which is home to our culture and all that is sacred to us, including the valuable ecosystems services that underpin our livelihood, and 3) Build sustainable community enterprises from the natural capitals our sacred lands sustainably offer. Cross-cutting interventions are, a) capacity-building, b) knowledge management and communications, c) digital inclusion, and d)partnership-building. The capacity-building activitieswill address individual and community requirements to enhance their role and the quality of their participation in organizational and resource governance. Our project will be a powerful learning opportunity for the indigenous communities, enabling them totake the lead in sustaining and building on project gains on their own. The knowledge management will focus on capturing, processing, organizing, and sharing project knowledge for continuous improvement. It will put the right knowledge in the right handsor to whom they would matter most. It will also help us measure our progress using scientific metrics and decision-making tools. The digital inclusion responds to the growing digital divide because of the COVID-19 pandemic. With lockdowns shifting relationship-building and participation in the social, political, economic, and cultural affairs to digital platforms, the indigenous communities are almost always left out. Most indigenous communities are often left uninformed and isolated from the digitizingworld because of limited access to the internet, multi-functional devices, proper information, and communications and technology tools. Our digital inclusion hopes to bridge that divide and slowly mainstream the community into digital platforms, allowingthemto reconnect with families and friends across the globe, access market and other information, participate in the monitoring of their natural resources and its biodiversity, and even allow indigenous children to have accessto proper education. Our projectalso hopes to build partnerships that could mobilize resources and inspire actions that support ourendeavors. The change we imagine starts in having the peace of mind and the confidence in knowing that our ancestral lands are finally our own, and that any investment we make will benefit our children and their children’s children. We know that our lives are closely tied to our land sand we will do our best to protect and enhance it – we always do our best, hoping for positive changes and a chance at better future.