Allan DeliDeli

Allan is the Executive Director of SILDAP, which works with indigenous peoples from Compostela Valley, Davao del Norte and Davao Oriental in Mindanao, Philippines. SILDAP participates in, and launches, different advocacy and campaign activities protecting the rights of the indigenous peoples and their Ancestral domain against development aggression, as well as campaigning for access to basic services. In 2004, SILDAP was one of the secretariat members on the United Nations Special Rapporteur Regional Dialogue on Indigenous issues for Visayas and Mindanao. Previously advocacy coordinator and then socio-economic program coordinator, Alan has had wide experience in advocating for indigenous education as a basic right as well as working on issues relating to anti-mining, environmental and ancestral domain protection and management, and development aggression at local, and national level.