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]

  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.