Regional Development Council

Regional Development Councils (RDCs) are the highest policy-making body governing the administrative regions of the Philippines. They serve as the subnational counterpart of the National Economic and Development Authority.[1] All but two (Metro Manila and Bangsamoro) of the Philippines 17 regions has a Regional Development Council[2] although Metro Manila has a metropolitan body which serves the same function as an RDC. Bangsamoro, an autonomous region, also has its own equivalent to a RDC.

Metro Manila is recognized in law as a "special development and administrative region," and was thus given a metropolitan authority;[3] the Metro Manila Council within the MMDA serves as the National Capital Region's RDC.[1] The defunct Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao's (ARMM) equivalent of an RDC was the Regional Economic and Development Planning Board.[4]

Under the Bangsamoro Organic Law, Bangsamoro is mandated to maintain the Bangsamoro Economic and Development Council (BEDC) which serves as the autonomous region's equivalent of an RDC.[5]

List

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Regional Development Councils (RDCs)

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Location Region
(regional designation)
RDC Official site
  Cordillera Administrative Region
(CAR)
Regional Development Council – CAR Official website
  Ilocos Region
(Region I)
Regional Development Council – Region 1 Official website
  Cagayan Valley
(Region II)
Regional Development Council – Region 2 Official website
  Central Luzon
(Region III)
Regional Development Council – Region 3 Official website
  Calabarzon
(Region IV-A)
Regional Development Council – Calabarzon Official website
  Mimaropa
(Southwestern Tagalog Region)[a]
Regional Development Council – Mimaropa Official website
  Bicol Region
(Region V)
Regional Development Council – Region 5 Official website
  Western Visayas
(Region VI)
Regional Development Council – Region 6 Official website
  Central Visayas
(Region VII)
Regional Development Council – Region 7 Official website
  Eastern Visayas
(Region VIII)
Regional Development Council – Region 8 Official website
  Zamboanga Peninsula
(Region IX)
Regional Development Council – Region 9 Official website
  Northern Mindanao
(Region X)
Regional Development Council – Region 10 Official website
  Davao Region
(Region XI)
Regional Development Council – Region 11 Official website
  Soccsksargen
(Region XII)
Regional Development Council – Region 12 Official website
  Caraga
(Region XIII)
Regional Development Council – Region 13 Official website
  1. ^ Formerly designated as Region IV-B until 2016.

RDC-equivalent body in other regions

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Location Region
(regional designation)
RDC-equivalent body Official site
  National Capital Region
(NCR)
Metro Manila Council (MMC) Official website
  Bangsamoro
(BARMM)
Bangsamoro Economic and Development Council (BEDC) Official website

References

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  1. ^ a b "FAQs – The Regional Development Council" (PDF). National Economic and Development Authority. November 2018. Retrieved August 11, 2019.
  2. ^ "RDC Officials/Directory". National Economic and Development Authority. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  3. ^ Congress of the Philippines (March 1, 1995). "Republic Act No. 7924 – An Act Creating Metropolitan Manila Development Authority, Defining Its Powers And Function, Providing Funds Therefor And Other Purposes" (PDF). Retrieved August 9, 2019.
  4. ^ "BARMM to consult LGUs on regional development plan formulation". Philippine Informationa Agency. October 3, 2019. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
  5. ^ "BARMM pushes creation of economic council". Sun Star Zamboanga. October 18, 2019. Retrieved June 12, 2020.