The Philippine Planning System

LEONILA G. CAJARTE, EnP

Assistant Regional Director, NEDA-X
 Presentation Outline
I. Public Sector Management
II. The Philippine Planning System
• Structure
• Levels of Plans
• Hierarchy and Vertical and Horizontal Linkages of National,
Regional, and Local Level Plans
III. The NEDA Structure and Functions

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 Public Sector Management

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 Public Sector: Development Planning Process

• Classical view of the

public sector
management (PSM)

• Components or
functions of the
government

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 Results-Based •
PLANNING FOR RESULTS
President's Priorities
Public Sector • (e.g., 8-point SEA)
• PDP/RDP
Management • RM

PROGRAMMING AND BUDGETING

EVALUATING FOR RESULTS FOR RESULTS
• SER/RDR • MTEF
• SDG Reports • PIP/RDIP
• Sector / Program / Project • OPIF
Evaluation Report • GAA, NEP
• ICC Programming
RESULTS

MONITORING FOR RESULTS

• ODA Review IMPLEMENTING FOR RESULTS
• BPAR • Procurement, Contracting,
• RM Monitoring Disbursement
• OPES • Program/Project Implementation
• COA Audit Reports • ICC Reevaluation

Source: Results-based Public Sector Management: A Rapid Assessment Guide. ADB

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The Philippine Planning System

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 Planning: integral part of governance

GOVERNANCE

PLANNING

Performing planning functions involves addressing

the following issues:
WHY WHO HOW WHAT
should we is in- are plans are the tools for plan
plan? charge? prepared? implementation?

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 Components of the Planning System

The planning structure and its WHO should be involved in

functions planning?

The plan or plans that the planning

WHY should we plan?
structure is mandated to produce

The processes that the planning

structure will follow to produce the HOW are plans prepared?
desired plan outputs

The tools for plan implementation HOW can our plans be

implemented?
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The planning
structure and
its functions

Public and
private
sector, other
stakeholders

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 The plan or
plans
Levels of Planning
TIMEFRAME/DURATION OF PLAN
Long-term Minimum of 9 years for Comprehensive Land Use
Plans (CLUPs), 20-50 years for masterplans, land
use/physical framework plans
Medium-term 5-6 years, e.g., development plans

Short-term 1-3 years, e.g., expenditure plans

*Time-horizon of the envisaged future varies according to the type and level of planning

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Levels of Plans
National • National Framework for Physical Plan (NFPP)
A long-term (30-year) physical framework plan, which specifies land use
Regional policy guidelines on settlements development, production and protection
land uses, and infrastructure development; based on sustainable
Provincial development and growth with social equity principles.

City and
Municipal

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Levels of Plans
National
• Philippine Development Plan (PDP)
Regional A development blueprint that is co-terminus with the 6-
year term of the Office of the President. It provides the
Provincial overall strategy to spur economic growth and
development of the country.
City and
Municipal
• Public Investment Program (PIP)
A document that addresses the investment
requirements of the PDP. It translates the goals and
policy thrusts drawn up in the PDP into a priority set of
programs, activities, and projects (PAPs) with
investment requirements.

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Levels of Plans
National
• Regional Physical Framework Plan (RPFP)
Regional
Designed to show the desired direction
Provincial and amount of growth of the region as
a whole and its sub-regional areas
City and over a plan period of 30 years.

Municipal

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Levels of Plans
National • Regional Development Plan (RDP)
The regional development blueprint that is
Regional co-terminus with the 6-year term of the
Office of the President. It provides the
Provincial overall strategy to spur regional economic
growth and development.
City and
Municipal

• Regional Development Investment Program

(RDIP)
It addresses the investment requirements of the RDP.

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Levels of Plans

National • Provincial Development and Physical

Framework Plan (PDPFP)
Regional
- A 6-year development blueprint of the province
Provincial - Addresses the disconnect between spatial and sectoral factors and
between medium-term and long-term concerns
City and
Municipal • Provincial Development Investment Program
(PDIP)
- Translates the PDPFP into programs and projects

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Levels of Plans

National • Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP)

- Land use policies
Regional - Land allocation for general and urban land uses

Provincial • Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP)

City and - Represented by the sectoral development plans (social, economic,
infrastructure, environmental management, institutional)
Municipal
• Local Development Investment Program (LDIP)
- Prioritized list of programs, projects and activities (PPAs) in the medium-
term that could be funded by the local government and other possible
sources of funds

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The planning
processes
Consultative and participatory planning
• Government and non-government sectors represented
• Within the government sector, national government agencies
and LGUs involved
• Within the LGU, executive and legislative branches, elective
and appointive officials engaged
• Within the LGU executive branch, LPDO and all other
departments participate

“Planning is everybody’s business”

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Hierarchy and Vertical and Horizontal Linkages of National, Regional, and Local
Level Plans

RA 7160 or The Local Government Code of 1991

Section 305 (h) “Local budget plans and goals shall, as far as practicable, be harmonized
with national development plans, goals, and strategies in order to optimize the utilization of
resources and to avoid duplication in the use of fiscal and physical resources”

DILG-NEDA-DBM-DOF JMC No. 1 (s. 2016)

“Updated Guidelines on the 1. Provide guidelines on the harmonization and
Harmonization of Local Planning, synchronization of planning, investment programming,
Investment Programming, budgeting and expenditure management and revenue
Resource Mobilization, administration at the local level;
Budgeting, Expenditure 2. Strengthen the interface between LGUs and line agencies;
Management, and Performance and
Monitoring and Coordination on 3. Clarify responsibilities and roles of oversight agencies:
Fiscal Oversight” DILG, NEDA, DBM.

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Hierarchy and Vertical and Horizontal Linkages of National, Regional, and Local
Level Plans

EO 5 (s. 2016)
“Approving and Adopting the Twenty-five-year Long
Term Vision Entitled AmBisyon Natin 2040 as Guide
for Development Planning”

SECTION 4. Consistent Government Plans. All plans of

government departments, offices and instrumentalities, including
government-owned or -controlled corporations and local
government units, shall be consistent with AmBisyon Natin 2040”

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Hierarchy and Vertical and Horizontal Linkages of National, Regional, and Local
Level Plans
DILG-NEDA JMC No. 1 (s. 2018)
“Guidelines on the SDG #1: NO POVERTY
Localization of the
Philippine Development
Plan (PDP) 2017-2022
Results Matrices and the
Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs)”
SDG

Local Results
Matrix (RM)

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Hierarchy and Vertical and Horizontal Linkages of National, Regional, and Local
Level Plans
DILG-NEDA JMC No. 1 (s. 2018)
Provides guidance on the following:

• Formulation of the provincial RMs that entails determination of applicable provincial

and city/municipal level indicators, baselines and targets based on established
regional RMs/SDGs and in accordance with the respective local development plans;

• Formulation of RMs of cities and municipalities;

• Ensuring LGU commitment to implement PPAs and allocate budget for the
achievement of targets; and

• Annual assessment of the contributions of cities, municipalities and provinces in

the attainment of P/RDP targeted priorities and outcomes and, consequently,
achievement of the P/RDP and to the most practical extent, the SDGs.

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Hierarchy and Vertical and Horizontal Linkages of National, Regional, and Local
Level Plans
EO 138 (s. 2021)
Full Devolution of Certain Functions of the Executive Branch to Local
Government, Creation of a Committee on Devolution, and For Other
Purposes
Section 11. Strengthening Planning, Investment Programming and
Budgeting Linkage and Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Systems
• Vertical and horizontal linkages across different levels of government in development
planning, investment programming, and budgeting to be strengthened

• Regional Development Councils (RDCs) shall set the strategic direction for faster
development of the regions, especially the lagging areas, and facilitate the alignment of
the local development and land use plans with the goals, objectives, and targets in the
Updated Philippine Development Plan (PDP) and the Regional Development Plans
(RDPs)

• Results-based M&E systems shall be in place and strengthened to ensure purposive

conduct of evaluations in the performance and delivery of devolved functions and
services

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Hierarchy and Vertical and Horizontal Linkages of National, Regional, and Local
Level Plans

LBC 152 (s. 2023)

“Budget Operations Manual for Local
Government Units (BOM for LGUs),
2023 Edition”

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Hierarchy and Vertical and Horizontal Linkages of National, Regional, and Local
Level Plans

DHSUD-NEDA-DILG JMC No. 1 (s.2023)

Interim Guidelines on the Formulation of Provincial Development
and Physical Framework Plan

“Section 4.2. The PDPFP shall have, as its main guiding

policy, the President’s eight-point socioeconomic agenda,
and the development priorities in the Philippine Development
Plan (PDP) and RDPs, which aim to "reinvigorate job
creation and poverty reduction through economic
transformation for a prosperous, inclusive, and resilient
society.”

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Hierarchy and Vertical and Horizontal Linkages of National, Regional, and Local
Level Plans

Source: Rationalized Planning System in the Philippines, Ernesto Serote

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Hierarchy and Vertical and Horizontal Linkages of National, Regional, and Local Level Plans
NFPP PDP PIP Annual Budget
(General
Guides the overall Provides Results Matrix Operationalizes the Appropriations Act)
physical/land use assessment and Plan’s strategies and
NATIONAL planning in the challenges
Provides results-
orientation to the
policies Defines the annual
country expenditure program of
• Strategies plan • Investment the national government
• Framework and • Policies Targets
• Goals and •
policy Priority programs • Annual Budget of
outcomes and projects
guidelines for Agencies
• Indicator •
the use and Annual • Priority programs,
statements Investment
management of projects, and
• Targets Targets
resources activities

RPFP RDP RDIP

Translates the Translates the Regional • Regional priority

REGIONAL national framework national plan at the Results Matrix programs and
plan at the regional regional level projects
level • Annual
• Strategies
Investment
• Policies
Targets

PDPFP PDIP/AIP
PROVINCIAL Provincial
Translates the Results Matrix
regional plan at
provincial level

CITY/ CLUP C/MDP C/MDIP/AIP

MUNICIPAL City/Municipal
Results Matrix

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The NEDA Structure and Functions

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 History and Legal Bases

Commonwealth Act No. 2 (23 December 1935)

• Creation of the National Economic Council (NEC).

• The NEC’s principal mandate was to advise the national government on the
formulation and adoption of a State economic program based on the policy of
national independence.

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 History and Legal Bases

Executive Order No. 1 (1943)

• Creation of the National Planning Board.

Executive Oder No. 46 (1944)

• Creation of the Economic Planning Board, which was tasked to recommend

measures for the economic development.

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 History and Legal Bases

Executive Order No. 94 (1947)

• The National Economic Council (NEC) was reconstituted to serve as

government’s center of national economic planning.

Republic Act No. 997 (1954) and Executive Oder No. 119 (1955)

• A new National Economic Council was created, replacing the old NEC.
• The new NEC now included an Office of National Planning, Office of Foreign
Aid Coordination, and the Office of Statistical Coordination and Standards.

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 History and Legal Bases

Republic Act No. 2699 (1960)

• The membership of the NEC was increased.

Executive Oder 17 (1962)

• The Program Implement Agency, headed by a Director-General of Cabinet

rank, was created to implement the government’s socioeconomic program and
to undertake economic planning as well.

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 History and Legal Bases

Republic Act No. 5435 (1968)

• The President of the Philippines was authorized to reorganize the executive

department and the different government agencies, the Integrated
Reorganization Plan of March 1972, was submitted to Congress.

• It provided the creation of a NEDA, which was realized a year after the
issuance of Presidential Decree No. 107 (24 January 1973).

• The functions of various socioeconomic bodies created by past administrations

were integrated under one government agency with the creation of the NEDA.

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 History and Legal Bases

Section 9, Article XII of the 1987 Philippine Constitution

• The Congress may establish an independent economic and planning agency headed
by the President, which shall, after consultations with the appropriate public agencies,
various private sectors, and local government units, recommend to Congress, and
implement continuing integrated and coordinated programs and policies for national
development.

• Until the Congress provides otherwise, the National Economic and

Development Authority shall function as the independent planning agency
of the government.

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 History and Legal Bases

Executive Order No. 230 (approved 22 July 1987)

• Section 1. This Executive Order shall be known as the Reorganization Act of

the National Economic and Development Authority.

• Section 3. Composition of the Authority. The Authority shall be composed of

two separate and distinct entities: the Board and the Secretariat.

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 History and Legal Bases

Approved NEDA Rationalization Plan (2013)

• In 2013, NEDA was reorganized based on its Rationalization Plan pursuant to

EO 366 issued by then President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.

• A newly-structured NEDA was set in place (June 2013) enabling NEDA

to take on greater leadership roles in policy analysis and coordination,
planning, programming, and monitoring and evaluation.

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Structure

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Structure The NEDA Board
PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

SOCIOECONOMIC PLANNING SECRETARY

SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO DEPARTMENT OF

EXECUTIVE THE PRESIDENT FOR DEPARTMENT OF
INVESTMENT AND
BUDGET AND
SECRETARY ENERGY
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS MANAGEMENT

DEPARTMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF

DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS
AND URBAN
PUBLIC WORKS TRADE AND
FINANCE
DEVELOPMENT AND HIGHWAYS INDUSTRY

MINDANAO
DEPARTMENT OF BANGKO SENTRAL
DEVELOPMENT
TRANSPORTATION NG PILIPINAS
AUTHORITY

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Structure
NEDA Board Interagency Committees

Development Budget Investment

Coordination Committee Coordination Committee (ICC)
(DBCC)

Infrastructure Social Development Committee on Tariff and

Committee (InfraCom) Committee (SDC) Related Matters (CTRM)

Regional Development National Land Use

Committee (RDCom) Committee (NLUC)

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Structure
Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC)

Recommends to the President the following:

• Level of annual government expenditures and the ceiling of government spending for
economic and social development, national defense, and government debt service;
• Proper allocation of expenditures for each development activity between current operating
expenditures and capital outlays; and;
• Amount set to be allocated for capital outlays broken down into the various capital or
infrastructure projects.

The DBM, as chair; the NEDA as co-chair and Secretariat; and the Executive Secretary,
Secretary of Finance and the Governor of the BSP, as members.

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Structure
Infrastructure Committee (INFRACOM)
Performs the following functions:
• Advises the President and the NEDA Board on infrastructure development, including highways,
airports, seaports and shore protection; railways; power generation, transmission and
distribution; telecommunications; irrigation, flood control and drainage, water supply and
sanitation; national buildings for government offices; hospitals and related buildings; school
buildings (SUC and basic education); and other public works;
• Coordinates the activities of agencies, including government-owned and controlled corporations
involved in infrastructure development; and
• Recommends to the President necessary government policies, programs and projects
concerning infrastructure development consistent with national development objectives and
priorities.

NEDA as Chair and Secretariat; Secretary of DPWH Co-Chair; and the Executive Secretary, and
the Secretaries of DOTr, DBM, DOF, DTI, DOE, DA, DOT, and DICT as members.

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Structure
Investment Coordination Committee (ICC)

Performs the following functions:

• Evaluates the fiscal, monetary, and balance of payments; implications of major
national projects; and recommends to the President the timetable of their
implementation on a regular basis;
• Advises the President on matters related to the domestic and foreign borrowings
program; and
• Submits a status of the fiscal, monetary and balance of payments implications of
major national projects.

Secretary of DOF as Chair; the Secretary of NEDA, as Co-Chair and Secretariat; and
the Executive Secretary, the Cabinet Secretary, the Secretaries of DBM, DOE, DTI,
and the Governor of BSP as members.

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Structure
Social Development Committee (SDC)

Performs the following functions:

• Advises the President and the NEDA Board on matters concerning social development,
including education, manpower, health and nutrition, population and family planning,
housing, human settlements, and the delivery of other social services.
• Coordinates the activities of government agencies concerned with social development;
and
• Recommends appropriate policies, programs and projects consistent with the national
development objectives.

Secretary of DOLE as Chair; the NEDA as Co-Chair and Secretariat; and the Executive
Secretary, the Secretaries of DA, DepEd, DILG, DAR, DSWD, DHSUD, and Chair of
CHED; and Director General of the TESDA as members.

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Structure
Committee on Tariff and Related Matters (CTRM)

Performs the following functions:

• Advises the President and the NEDA Board on Tariff and related matters and on the
effects on the country of various international developments;
• Coordinates agency positions and recommends national positions for international
economic negotiations; and
• Recommends to the President a continuous rationalization program for the
country’s tariff structure.

Secretary of DTI as Chair, with the NEDA as Co-Chair and Secretariat. Its members
are the Executive Secretary; the Secretaries of DA, DBM, DOLE, DAR, DOF, DFA,
DENR; the Governor of BSP; and the Chairof the Tariff Commission.

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Structure
Regional Development Committee (RDCOM)
Performs the following functions:
• Formulates and monitors the implementation of policies that reduce regional growth disparities, and promote
rational allocation of resources among regions;
• Serve as clearing house for key regional development policy/programs proposals which impact on two or more
regions;
• Formulates and monitor implementation of the framework for regional development of the Philippine
Development Plan;
• Directs the formulation and review guidelines for the regional allocation of agency budgetary resources;
• Periodically reviews the viability of the regional configuration of the country and recommend to the President the
re-delineation of regions, as may be necessary; and
• Periodically reviews the composition, structure and operating mechanism of the RDCs and recommend to the
President changes, as may be necessary.

NEDA as Chair and Secretariat. Its member are the Secretaries of the DBM and DILG, Regional Development
Council (RDC) Chair or Co-Chair each coming from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao, and four (4) regional
development experts from the private sector and academe.

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Structure
National Land Use Committee (NLUC)
Performs the following functions:
• Advise the President on matters concerning land use and physical planning;
• Formulate a national physical framework plan and other inter-sectoral policies and programs that guide the rational
utilization and management of the country’s land and other physical resources, and the preparation of sub-national
physical framework plans;
• Promote the integration of land use and physical planning policies, plans and programs, including disaster risk
management, into national socioeconomic plans and programs;
• Decide and resolve land use policy conflicts among agencies of the national government;
• Establish and maintain, in conjunction with various appropriate government agencies, a database system which would
identify and classify the present and possible uses of specific land areas, public and private, comprising the total land
resource of the nation; and
• Provide policy directions to the Regional Land Use Committee in the performance of their physical planning functions.

NEDA as the Chair and Secretariat, with Secretaries of DENR, DA, DAR, DTI, DPWH, DOTr, DOE, DILG, DOT, DOJ,
DOST, DHSUD, and the NCIP, Presidents of the League of Provinces of the Philippines, the League of Cities of the
Philippines, and the League of Municipalities of the Philippines, and two private sector representatives as members.

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Structure NEDA Secretariat

The NEDA Secretariat is regarded as the

authority in macroeconomic forecasting,
and policy analysis, and research.

It provides high-level advice to the

Congress and the Executive Branch.

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Structure
Functions of the NEDA Secretariat

Coordinates the Reviews,evaluates,and Undertakes short- Provides admin,

formulation of policies, monitors infrastructure term policy reviews to legal, ICT, KM
plans and programs to projects identified under provide critical support,
efficiently set the broad the Comprehensive and analyses of management,
parameters for national Integrated development issues communication and
and sub- national (area- Infrastructure Program and policy alternatives advocacy services
wide, regional and local) (CIIP) to decision-makers
development

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 NEDA Major Programs

The primary functions of NEDA can be categorized into three program areas:

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Structure NEDA Secretariat
O F F I C E O F T H E S E C R E TARY

Legal Affairs and Special Concerns Group Legislative Affairs

Development Information Staff Legislative Executive Development Advisory Council

Internal Audit Service Legislative Liaison Office

Legal Staff

Policy and Planning Investment Regional Corporate Affairs

Group Programming Group Development Group Group
Agriculture, Natural Resources, and
Infrastructure Staff 15 NEDA Regional Offices Administrative Staff
Environment Staff
Financial, Planning and Management
Governance Staff Public Investment Staff Regional Development Staff
Staff
Information and Communications
National Policy and Planning Staff Monitoring and Evaluation Staff
Technology Staff
Social Development Staff

Trade, Services, and Industry Staff

Innovation Staff

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 Four major
dimensions of
development

1.Economic
A person as the (infrastructure/fiscal,
center of jobs creation aspect)
development 2.Social (human
development/ basic
needs aspect)
3.Political-
administrative (good
governance reforms)
4.Culture (sense of
identity)

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NEDA’s Vision

NEDA envisions a country where public

and private sector perform their
respective roles efficiently, such that
people have equal access to
opportunities, resulting in inclusive
development and zero poverty.

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NEDA’s Mission

NEDA’s mission is to formulate continuing,

coordinated, and fully-integrated
socioeconomic policies, plans, and
programs to enable and empower every
Filipino to enjoy a matatag, maginhawa, at
panatag na buhay.

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NEDA’s Core Values

NEDA’s core values are:

• INTEGRITY
• PROFESSIONALISM
• EXCELLENCE

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Structure NEDA Attached Agencies

Philippine Statistical Philippine Institute for

Philippine Statistics Development Studies
Research andTraining
Authority (PSA) (PIDS)
Institute (PSRTI)

Conducts and publishes Develops comprehensive and Produces comprehensive and

national censuses and integrated research and integrated socioeconomic
surveys, sector statistics; training program on the research for several
and consolidates selected theories,concepts and development issues of the
administrative recording methodologies for the country
systems and national promotion of the statistical
accounts system

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Structure NEDA Attached Agencies

Public-Private Philippine National

Tariff Commission (TC) Volunteer Services
Partnership (PPP)
Coordinating Agency
Center (PNVSCA)

Provides technical Provides expertise on tariff, Promotes and coordinates

assistance to government trade remedies, non-tariff volunteer programs and
agencies, local government measures, and international services to empower
units, and private sector in trade issues to enhance individuals, groups, families,
developing critical public- industry competitiveness and and communities for self-
private partnership projects promote consumer welfare sufficiency and self- governing
development

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Structure NEDA Attached Agencies

Commission on Development Academy

Population and of the Philippines (DAP)
Development (CPD)

Formulates and adopts coherent, Promotes and supports the country’s

integrated, and comprehensive development efforts by carrying out
long-term plans, programs, and human resource programs that are
recommendations on population as designed to instill development
it relates to economic and social perspective and advance management
development consistent with and capability in the key sectors of the
implementing the population policy government and the economy

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