The Regional Director of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) 11 now chairs the Metropolitan Davao Development Coordinating Committee (MDDCC) as the interim body to the Metropolitan Davao Development Council (MDDC).
The MDDC is created based on Republic Act No. 11708 known as the Metropolitan Davao Development Authority (MDDA).
The RDC XI made the decision through passing the RDC XI Resolution No. 165 series of 2022 which was taken up during the RDC XI full council meeting on Dec. 13, 2022.
Duly signed by RDC XI Chairperson Corazon N. Malanyaon, provincial governor of Davao Oriental, the resolution cites the need for NEDA XI Regional Director (Maria Lourdes D. Lim) to continue “shepherding” the MDDCC which formerly was headed by now Vice President Sara Z. Duterte during the term 2019 to 2022.
With Duterte’s end term as the RDC XI lead on June 30, 2022, the MDDCC chairperson seat was rendered vacant. The RDC XI is duty-bound to run the MDDCC as it is a special body of RDC XI created thru RDC XI Resolution No. 72, series of 2017.
The MDDCC is the transitory structure for Inter-LGU cooperation that serves as a mechanism for coordinated planning, investment programming, project facilitation, and monitoring of the Metropolitan Davao development initiatives.
The RDC XI Resolution 165 further cites the crucial work that NEDA XI Regional Director (Lim) rendered for the MDDCC being the vice chairperson of the RDC XI, at the transition period of 2022 National and Local Elections elected officials.
She “shepherded the Committee and presided over its regular meetings beginning the second semester of 2022, as well as, acted on its day-to-day operations,” necessary to continue the initiative of the MDDCC for the Metropolitan Davao development.
The Key components of such development are the formulation of the Comprehensive and Sustainable Urban Development Master Plan pursued through a grant from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the implementation of the Metropolitan Davao Development Authority MDDA.
The RDC XI hence has found value to the recommendation of the MDDCC, while citing the designation of NEDA XI Regional Director (Lim) as Chairperson of the MDDCC as “necessary for the continuity of efforts for the development of Metropolitan Davao.” (PIA XI, Jean Duron-Abangan)
