About Us


Mindanawon envisions…

A just, peaceful, abundant and multicultural Mindanao where women and men are unified by a MindanaWon consciousness that asserts and celebrates diverse identities and the integrity of creation
 To achieve this, Mindanawon strives…
  • To serve as a center for the creative and critical promotion of indigenous peoples’ rights, cultural identity, initiatives, assertions, and social movements
    Goals & Strategies
  1. To help in knowledge production that would enrich the understanding of Mindanawon experiences, and inform interventions of government & civil society
1.1 Research, Documentation & Publication
1.2 Archival Collection & Library
1.3 Policy Advocacy
  1. To support indigenous peoples’ initiatives & assertions
2.1 Capacity Building:  Scholarship & Youth Formation
2.2 Capacity Building:  Self-Determination (economic, political, cultural & spiritual governance)
2.3 Capacity Building: Formation for Researchers, Educators, Church & Development Workers
  1. To efficiently, effectively and sustainably manage MindanaWon towards the achievement of its goals
3.1 Resource Mobilization
  • Strategies that Cut Across
  • Networking & Partnership
  • Learning Circles & Conversations (Linking theoreticians & practitioners)
Thematic Priorities
  • Ancestral Domain Claims and Management
  • Self-Determination
  • Environment
  • Peace & Gender
  • Spirituality