Allan V.

Villanueva
Office of the Chancellor
15 March 2019
 Addressing
the
Mindanao
problem
 Increase exchange of trade and investment among
Mindanao entrepreneurs, investors, and stakeholders;
and, between national and multi-national companies or
investors with Mindanao counterparts
 Strengthen local competitiveness of the Mindanao
business environment
 Encourage the development of a strong and dynamic
business environment that paves for the emergence of
new market opportunities for local business players,
producers, budding entrepreneurs, and aspiring
investors in the ASEAN market
 The Mindanao Development Corridors is a spatial
development strategy that aims to increase the
competitiveness of Mindanao industries by providing
them with common service facilities.
 The program aims to achieve physical integration
among key economic clusters in Mindanao in its bid to
become self-reliant and internally dependable.
 The program will prepare the island-region towards
greater economic cooperation with the BIMP-EAGA
and other ASEAN-member countries in anticipation for
the ASEAN Integration.
Development Cluster Highlights
1. Industrial Trade This is Mindanao’s Business Center and Industrial
Cluster Trade Corridor and Mindanao’s gateway to
domestic markets in the Visayas and Luzon. Heavy
industries are prominently represented here,
owing to the presence of the PHIVIDEC industrial
estate, and several mining operations in Surigao,
Dinagat, and Misamis Oriental. The area has the
potential to become a logistics hub, as it hosts the
newly opened Laguindingan Airport, and the
Mindanao Integrated Container Terminal (MICT).
The area is also home to the country’s iron and
steel processing plants (National Steel Corp. and
Group Jacinto).
Development Cluster Highlights
2. Mariculture and Western Mindanao remains as the
Trade Cluster top producer of fishery-based
products with an aggregate
production of 1,485,238.04 MT or
60% of the total Mindanao
fishery production of 49,294.04 MT.
Rubber, Mango and Coconut are
the top three (3) agri-commodities
that Western Mindanao has
substantial share in Mindanao total
volume of production.
 Development Cluster Highlights
3. Biodiversity and Eco- The corridor is characterized by a diverse ecosystem
Tourism Cluster and hosts a large proportion of the country’s unique
plants and animals. The region has green mountains with
dense wildlife, waterfalls running from rainforests, and
spectacular cave formations, rivers and shorelines. Off
the northeastern part of Mindanao lies the Agusan
Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary, the famous Enchanted River of
Hinatuan and Mindanao’s Niagara falls, the Tinuy-an falls
located in Bislig City. It has a long stretch of lowlands
and mid-to high elevation forests along the east coast of
Mindanao.

This corridor development approach integrates

rehabilitation and long-term development needs of areas
hit by typhoon Pablo to include disaster-preparedness
and climate change adaptation through the Mindanao
Nurturing Our Waters (MindaNOW) Program.
 Development Highlights
Cluster
4. Food Basket This is Mindanao’s Food,
Cluster agribusiness, and logistics cluster.
The major integrating facility of this
cluster is the high standard
highway which will cut across two
corridors and also connects to the
production areas and thus
encourage movement of not
only goods and services but also
tourists.
 Development Highlights
Cluster
5. Food, Agri- Agri-industry and agri-processing
Business and are likely to predominate here for
Logistics Cluster some time, as well as mineral
resource-based industry. The twin
main growth centers linked by this
corridor are General Santos City,
which will serve as a trade, finance
and transport center, and Davao
City, the business center, tourism,
and services hub.
 An integrated set of development interventions
anchored on sustainable development framework
 Adopts the river basin and watershed as the key
platforms for planning
 Sets guidance for Mindanao that will emphasize
ecological value, capitalize water as the most critical
resource for human survival and optimize the full
potentials of the river basins and watersheds without
necessarily compromising its carrying capacity
Components:
1. Institutional Development and Capacity Building
2. Plan Integration & Harmonization
3. Knowledge Management
4. River Basin and Watershed Management
5. Policy Review, Development, Advocacy &
Implementation
6. Constituency Building
 Mindanao Power Monitoring Committee (MPMC) was created
through Executive Order No. 81 to spearhead and coordinate
the efforts of the national, regional and local governments, and
power industry stakeholders to improve the power situation in
Mindanao.
 Objective: To realize a regime of reliable, sustainable, and
affordable power in Mindanao.
 Addressing issues and concerns relative to peace and
development security, beyond regional boundaries/
jurisdictions

 Integrating relevant policies, particularly those that

impact directly on Mindanao peace and development
security to ensure better collaboration among
concerned agencies
Its strategies fall under 3 main objectives:
1. Enhancing the moral and social fabric
2. Reducing inequality
3. Increasing the potential growth of the
economy
Components:
Enhancing the Social Fabric (“Malasakit”)
Inequality-Reducing Transformation
(“Pagbabago”)
Increasing Growth Potential (“Patuloy na Pag-
unlad”)
Reaching for the Demographic Dividend
Enabling and Supportive Economic
Environment
Sustainable Development
References:
1. MINDA
2. NEDA
3. Regional Development Plans (RDPs)
4. Mindanao 2020 Peace and Development Framework Plan 2011-2030
Daghang salamat.