Mindanao Land Foundation

MISSION
Enabling Communities to eradicate poverty.

CORE VALUES
Sustainability
Participation
Integrity
Excellence
Sharing

VISION
After 6 years, selected partner communities affected by social conflict are enabled to help other communities towards development.

BRIEF HISTORY
Mindanao Land Foundation, Inc. (MinLand) was created to respond to the complex development problems of poor communities in the Philippines . Incorporated in 1989, MinLand believes that housing is not simply land and structures but should be a continuing process of building relationships among families within a community and between the community and its environment. As such, MinLand envisions a society of socially cohesive and sustainable communities where families can live in security, with dignity and integrity.

MinLand started out as an originator of the Community Mortgage Program (CMP); a program designed to answer the land tenure problems of slum and blighted communities. To date, MinLand has already assisted more than 5,000 households own their lots through the CMP and other land tenure security programmes.

Initially in partnership with 13 communities in Davao City , MinLand is now working with 51 other communities in other cities and municipalities as well under different programmes that include land tenure security, social housing, settlements enhancement, gender-integrated savings mobilization, poverty reduction and social cohesion building in post conflict communities.

In its almost fifteen (17) of years of operations, MinLand has already significantly acquired, developed and enriched its experiences and expertise in various development fields such as but not limited to:

• land tenure security

• voluntary resettlement & social housing

• community organizing & governance

• community infrastructure

• urban community development

• poverty impact assessment

• organization building

• rapid resource appraisal

• community savings & credit

• LGU comprehensive shelter planning

• social cohesion building

• social protection & social services

• post conflict community development