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MinDA to extend technical assistance to Metro Davao LGUs


DAVAO DEL NORTE ---  The Mindanao Dev’t Authority (MinDA) has committed to provide technical assistance in infusing the “Mindanao context” to the Metro Davao Development Authority (MDDA).


In the MinDA Media Forum, MinDA Deputy Executive Director Romeo Montenegro said that MinDA’s assistance is geared towards making sure that LGUs involved in the MDDA will be contributing  to the  overall development of Metro Davao.


“MinDA will continue to provide the Mindanao context in the interregional context, to make sure that everyone is making sense, not individually on its own, but on the  context of them contributing to the overall development .


The Senate approved on Jan 17, 2022 on 3rd and final reading House Bill 8930 establishing MDDA involving the highly urbanized city of Davao;  the cities of Tagum, Panabo, Samal, and the Municipality of Carmen in Davao del Norte; and Digos City in Davao del Sur.


Montenegro explained that the MDDA will soon be pursuing planning and development undertaking, creating the challenge of identifying development strategies as the rate of urbanization of areas in the metropolis “will require new set of  yardstick of development and planning incumbent upon  the specific peculiarities of these areas.”


Aside from Metro Davao, MinDA is looking at the rise of Metro Cagayan de Oro, Metro General Santos City and Metro Zamboanga.


While MinDA Secretary Mabel Sunga-Acosta welcomes the creation of metropolitan areas in Mindanao such that of Metro Davao, she prefers to see equal distribution of economic growth and development in the entire Mindanao.


During the same forum, Acosta assures  MinDA to extend capacity building assistance to 4th and 5th class municipalities to bridge their development gaps vis-à-vis the metro cities and highly urbanized areas in Mindanao.


“Di naman maganda kung magkakaroon ng inequality,” Acosta said.  “We would want the whole of Mindanao, lahat ay uunlad, walang maiiwan,” she added.  (PIA XI/ Jeanevive Duron Abangan)

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