Mayor Sara Z. Duterte is new Mindanao Representative to the NEDA Board-Regional Development Committee
The NEDA Board Regional Development Committee-Mindanao Area (RDCom-Mindanao) convened for its reorganizational meeting on 20 January 2011 at the Marco Polo Hotel, Davao City. The meeting was attended by its member chairpersons and co-chairpersons of the Regional Development Councils (RDCs) of Mindanao, the Regional Cabinet Secretary representing of the ARMM-Regional Economic and Development Planning Board (REDPB), NEDA Regional Directors of Mindanao, and Executive Director of ARMM-Regional Planning and Development Office (RPDO). Mayor Sara Z. Duterte was unanimously chosen by her counterpart RDC/REDPB officials to represent Mindanao in the NEDA Board-RDCom while RDC IX Chairperson, Mayor Evelyn T. Uy of Dipolog City, was selected alternate representative.This was bared by RDC XI Vice-Chair and NEDA XI Regional Director Maria Lourdes D. Lim.
NEDA conducts Davao Regional Consultation on the Medium-Term Philippine Development Plan, 2011-2016
The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) conducted a regional consultation on the draft Medium-Term Philippine Development Plan (MTPDP) for 2011-2016 at the Waterfront Insular Hotel in Davao City on January 5.
The MTPDP, which serves as the country’s development blueprint for the next six years, has identified growth sectors based on President Benigno Aquino III’s development agenda as contained in his Social Contract with the Filipino People. The Social Contract envisions “a country with an organized and widely-shared rapid expansion of the economy through a government dedicated to honing and mobilizing the people’s skills and energies, as well as the responsible harnessing of its natural resources.”
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