Our Mandate

HUMEIN Philippines Inc. has adopted its Agenda for Action and its Principles of Engagement, an array of strategic focus wherein which, its future actions shall be guided. HUMEIN-Phils, and in partnership with relevant stakeholders, will strive to put forward and advance the following:

1. Enhance the Human and Social Capital of Poor Communities – by empowering them, they are able to transform their lives, their own families, and communities to become self-reliant, self-sufficient and self-sustaining

2. Provide Sustainable Livelihoods towards Poverty Reduction – increasing community access as well as opportunities to improve their livelihood sources and incomes that will enhance their overall well-being, will be at the forefront at all times

3. Ensure Environmental Integrity – where restoration, protection, and conservation of the environment and natural resources upon which local communities depend, shall always be priority

4. Ensure Good Governance – realizing that participation is crucial for
improving decision-making

Vision and Goals

As a national interdisciplinary group of professionals that promotes a human ecological perspective in both research and practice, HUMEIN’s Vision is:
To be a leading interdisciplinary professional organization in the country to promote human ecology towards attaining human centered, self-reliant, and ecologically stable
communities.

While the specific Goals of the Organization are:
1. To provide a forum in the country through which scientists, scholars, educators, and practitioners, exchange information, ideas, and knowledge in human ecology;

2. To establish collaborative networks and alliances among human ecology programs, organizations and individuals throughout the country and the world;

3. To promote the advancement of human ecology in interdisciplinary studies and practices; and

4. To collectively identify human ecology related problems and their origins, possible solutions, and their impacts, and to recommend appropriate courses of actions.