Bohol Local Development Foundation (BLDF) was registered with the SEC on September 11, 2003 as a non-stock, not-for-profit corporation. Majority of its members are former staff of the defunct Ilaw International Center, as well as former trainers, community organizers and volunteers of the Ilaw ng Buhay Movement, which pioneered targeting of specific households and communities for delivery of basic services from 1975 to the early 1990s with assistance from UNICEF, USAID, AusAID, UNFPA. Vision is to empower the local communities to be inc control of their own development.