“We trust that the 10-point socioeconomic schedule of the administration can be performed most effective with the active participation of the LGUs. We don’t forget LGUs as key players to create an permitting competitive environment for commercial enterprise growth on the neighborhood stage, specially … creating jobs as a desired outcome.”
For his part, ECCP senior advocacy adviser Henry Schumacher said the enterprise region has to paintings together with the LGUs to make certain a stable regionalization whose financial projections and policies may be impartial of Manila.
“The government is asking at decentralization and regionalization. We have began it. Federalism or now not, this is how we are able to empower neighborhood governments. This is how we will essentially create higher possibilities inside the areas wherein investments can pass. We must take into account that we need to power more investments inside the Visayas and Mindanao,” Schumacher said.
“DILG Undersecretary Austere Panadero has invited the ECCP to grow to be a part of a monthly communicate, and that makes a big difference,” Schumacher stated.