Frederick is the Technical/Legal Officer for a special Presidential Task Force working to address the emergency situations adversely affecting Indigenous Peoples. In this position he undertakes case research, analysis, assessment, review, strategy formulation and recommendation, and directive implementation. He also directly handles emergency cases in provinces in all three major island groups of the Philippines. The nature of the cases ranges from Human Rights abuses against IPS and their communities, evacuation cases/IPs in armed conflict areas, conflicts between ancestral land claimants and resource use instrument holders, establishment of IP reservations and conflict between ancestral domains and government reservations. He is also involved in community consultations, interagency coordination (local and national; civilian and military) and networking with community and other non-government organizations and local government units. Once the term of Task Force 63 is up, Frederick will be transferring to the Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center (LRC), an NGO concerned with IP rights and welfare. In the near future he hopes to set up an NGO that would focus on community capability building for empowerment and development. Frederick is attending DTP partially so that he can pass on the information he gains to communities and advocates at the grassroots. In addition taking a course such as this will help him to further pursue his interest in grassroots education, giving him more credential so that he may be taken seriously by those in higher positions. Frederick has a Bachelor of Arts in Public Administration and a Bachelor of Law. He has also completed training in Governance and Legislative Advocacy, Technologies for Adult Learning, and various Paralegal trainings.
