DENR-NCIP Joint Administrative Order No. 2017-01 on the Procedures for Securing Titles Under Section 12 of the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (IPRA) of 1997. (Ra 8371).

In order to provide uniform guidelines in the implementation and application of Sections 12 and 53 of Republic Act (RA) 8371, known as the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act (IPRA), relative to the pertinent provisions of Commonwealth Act (CA) No. 141 or the Public Land Act, as amended, Executive Order (EO) No. 192, known as the Reorganization Act of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, and RA No. 10023 entitled An Act Authorizing the issuance of Free Patents to Residential Lands, this Joint Order aims at perform the following activities: recognize and promote the rights of Indigenous Cultural Communities/Indigenous Peoples (ICCs/IPs), particularly those related to ownership of ancestral lands, which, by custom and long association, are regarded as their own property; conserve, manage, develop, and properly use the Country's environment natural resources, and rich biodiversity, lands of the public domain such as forest and grazing lands, and mineral resources, including those in reservations and watersheds; ensure the equitable sharing of the benefits derived from the Country's natural resources for the welfare of the present and future generations of Filipinos, through the judicious licensing and regulation of the extraction, use, and disposition thereof, as may be provided for by law.