The law recognizes the ICCs/IPs’ right to “Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices and to develop their own Sciences and Technologies”. The law creates the National Commission on ICCs/IPs (NCIP), “which shall be the primary government agency responsible for the formulation and implementation of policies, plans and programs to promote and protect the rights and well-being of the ICCs/IPs and the recognition of their ancestral domains as well as their rights thereto” .