The Legal Rights Resource Center (LRC) is a Philippine environmental organisation which started in 1988. The organisation is also called Friends of the Earth Philippines, and is an active member of Friends of the Earth International. LRC tries to protect the land rights of indigenous peoples in the Philippines, through legal aid to local groups claiming their rights on land and on their immediate surroundings. Every year LRC works directly with around 25 local organisations, especially in Mindanao and Luzon where it has also set up local branches. LRC’s headquarters are in Manilla.

Indigenous peoples’ political participation in state apparatuses has been uneven.
In southern Philippines, home to majority of the country’s indigenous peoples, their participation in Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) is critical lest they become a minority within a minority. As Moros pursue their autonomy in Central Mindanao, non-Moro Indigenous Peoples (NMIPs), particularly the Teduray, Lambangian, and Erumanen ne Menuvu, are in danger of becoming marginalised within overlapping territories of the two people.

The project aims to

1) Support the mobility of Teduray, Lambangian, and Erumanen ne Menuvu citizens as they engage institutions (Congress, the Bangsamoro Parliament) and the Bangsamoro Transition Authority) and influence policies towards the promotion of their tenurial rights and autonomy;

2) Help shape, through creative platforms, public discourse on the marginalisation and mobility of indigenous peoples in that context as well as nationally.