In Search of a Cultural Fit: The Convergence of Traditional Social Organizational and External Issue-Based Community Organizing for Aeta and Agta Empowerment

Using an anthropological lens, the research examined how Aeta/Agta social structure and organization that pre-existed nongovernment organization interventions related to principles and practices of community organizing. It examined, in particular, Aeta and Agta communities' traditional problem-solving mechanisms and ways of dealing with external threats before the intervention of NGOs.