CSR Programs

LANDBANK provides capability-building services to Bank-assisted cooperatives through the LANDBANK Countryside Development Foundation, Inc. (LCDFI).

Funded by annual donations from LANDBANK, LCDFI covers cooperatives, farmers’ organizations and associations, countryside financial institutions, non-government organizations (NGOs), and foundations nationwide.

The training modules by LCDFI are focused on various management and operations of the cooperatives and other CFIs. Further, LCDFI offers entrepreneurship seminars for OFWs and their beneficiaries as well as values/leadership orientation for client members.

LCDFI trains bank-assisted cooperatives towards achieving the objective of promoting national food security by increasing agricultural productivity, and increasing farmers’ income by improving efficiency in the food systems. Furthermore, LCDFI provides training interventions to LANDBANK-assisted cooperatives to address their weaknesses as identified in the operations review.

LCDFI provide capacity building services to strengthen farmers’ organizations and cooperatives in areas where it is most needed. They also conduct technical capability enhancement trainings to sustain product marketing requirements.

The Bank, through LCDFI, also implements a “big brother” training program for selected Key Cooperatives (KCs) with a provision of technical training on a one-on-one basis for coop board, management and personnel.

These selected KCs are committed to map out and target small farmers and fishers for membership to the coop of defunct coops. They will also participate in poverty interventions, projects/activities in their assigned coverage of province/s and/or regions.