We may add the principles of the Rights-Based Approach to Development and Governance, i.e.,      participation, accountability, non-discrimination and equality, empowerment, and linkaging or networking. ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS FOR AN EFFECTIVE EDUCATION STRATEGY Some of those I identified as essential requirements for an effective education strategy are: 1, clear definition of target audience/s and learning needs; 2, use of rights-based approach to education; 3, conducive policy environment, and ; 4, effective redress mechanism/s.  Clear Definition of Target Audience/s and Learning Needs Like any communication program, we start strategizing by defining who our target audiences are, and identifying what are their learning needs. In the Philippines, it is considered politically correct to use either cultural communities, or better, indigenous peoples, when referring to minorities. We used to have an institution that catered to the needs of IPs named as Presidential Assistant on National Minorities or PANAMIN. That was replaced by the Office of Northern Cultural Communities, Office of Southern Cultural Communities, and Office of Muslim Affairs. With the passage of the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (or IPRA) in 1997, ONCC and OSCC had been fused together as the now National Commission on Indigenous Peoples. The Commission on Human Rights not only effectively lobbied, together with other advocates, for the enactment of IPRA, but also defended its constitutionality when IPRA was assailed in court. However, the deliberations yesterday bring us to a different notion about ‘Minority’. Other vulnerable groups such as non-nationals or migrants were also mentioned as minorities. May I humbly recommend therefore that a working group be constituted to define the meaning of minority, and to study the propriety of using the word minority, as well as to determine not only their learning needs but also the learning needs of ‘particular sectors of mainstream society’ towards the eradication of discrimination, biases and prejudices against ‘minorities’. In its work, the working group, if organized, may consider the UN definition of human rights education, which is -- training, dissemination and information efforts aimed at the building of a universal culture of human rights through the imparting of knowledge and skills and the moulding of attitudes and which are directed to: (a) the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms;