Froilyn Tenorio Mendoza is a Filipino civic worker and politician who is a member of the

Bangsamoro Transition Authority Parliament The Bangsamoro Transition Authority is the interim regional government of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of the Philippines and has executive and legislative powers over the region. History With the ratification of the Bangsamoro Organic Law ...

as a representative of the

Teduray people The Teduray are a Filipino ethnic group. They speak the Tiruray language. There were 103,139 of them in 2010. Their name may have come from words ''tew,'' meaning people, and d''uray,'' referring to a small bamboo hook and a line used for fishing. ...

Background and education

Mendoza is a member of the Lambangian tribe of the

Teduray The Teduray are a Filipino ethnic group. They speak the Tiruray language. There were 103,139 of them in 2010. Their name may have come from words ''tew,'' meaning people, and d''uray,'' referring to a small bamboo hook and a line used for fishing. ...

and hails from

South Upi South Upi, officially the Municipality of South Upi ( Maguindanaon: ''Pagabagatan Upi''; Iranun: ''Inged a South Upi''; tl, Bayan ng South Upi), is a 4th class municipality in the province of Maguindanao del Sur, Philippines. According to the 20 ...

Maguindanao Maguindanao (, Maguindanao language, Maguindanaon: ''Prubinsya nu Magindanaw''; Iranun language, Iranun'': Perobinsia a Magindanao''; tl, Lalawigan ng Maguindanao) was a Provinces of the Philippines, province of the Philippines located in the ...

. Her father was the first Teduray municipal secretary while her mother is a school teacher. While Teduray girls are usually discouraged to pursue full formal education many of which remain illiterate, Mendoza was encouraged by her parents to study and was able to finish college. She obtained a bachelor's degree in agriculture at the

University of Southern Mindanao The University of Southern Mindanao (USM; fil, Pamantasan ng Dakong Timog ng Mindanao), formerly Mindanao Institute of Technology (MIT), is a university in the Southern Philippines. It provides instruction and professional training in the fiel ...

and a second degree as a registered

midwife A midwife is a health professional who cares for mothers and newborns around childbirth, a specialization known as midwifery. The education and training for a midwife concentrates extensively on the care of women throughout their lifespan; co ...

in Northern Cotabato College.

Career

Mendoza is involved in the

Bangsamoro peace process In the late 1960s, an independence movement was founded in Mindanao, the Philippines to separate the Muslim majority- Moro areas from the rest of the Philippines. In late 1968, at least 28 Muslim volunteers from Sulu who were being trained for a ...

and representation of her ethnic group, the Teduray. She has served as the chair of the Teduray-Lambangian Women's Organization. She is one of the co-founders of the organization. She has also been a member of the all-women contingent of the Civilian Protection component of the International Monitoring Team, the project manager of a special project for the advocacy of Lumad women's rights in the now defunct Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) by the United Nations Development Fund for Women and an advocacy specialist of the special project of the Institute for Autonomy and Governance for the empowerment of Indigenous Peoples in the ARMM.

Bangsamoro Transition Committee

Mendoza was appointed to the

Bangsamoro Transition Commission The Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC) was a government body which was tasked to aid in creating the draft of the Bangsamoro Organic Law as well as the transition body in the areas to form the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region until the constitu ...

(BTC) in 2013 by then President Benigno Aquino III. The BTC is a body which is tasked to help draft the

Bangsamoro Basic Law The Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL; fil, Batayang Batas para sa Rehiyong Awtonomo ng Bangsamoro), also known as the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL), and officially designated as Republic Act No. 11054, is a Philippine law that provided for the establis ...

(BBL) a charter legislation for the then-proposed autonomous Bangsamoro region intended to replace the ARMM. Mendoza was nominated by the Teduray to represent their people in the BTC. The first BTC under Aquino lasted from 2013 to 2014, when the body was able to come up with a draft. Mendoza signed the draft with reservations since the proposed measure did not include the recognition of the Indigenous People's Rights Act within the BBL and only included mention of an " ancestral domain" rather than "ancestral domains".

Bangsamoro Parliament

Mendoza was appointed to the

by President

Bongbong Marcos Ferdinand "Bongbong" Romualdez Marcos Jr. ( , , ; born September 13, 1957), commonly referred to by the initials PBBM or BBM, is a Filipino politician who is the 17th and current president of the Philippines. He previously served as a senat ...

on August 12, 2022. She is among the seven new woman appointees to the parliament. A nominee of the Philippine national government, Mendoza represents the Non-Moro Indigenous Peoples (NMIP) in the regional legislature.

References

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