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1 3 rd Regional Competitiveness Committees Meeting Best Western Hotel Cebu City 1

2 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM: GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS REPORT

3 GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS REPORT Upper 1/ Percentile Rank Middle 1/3 Bottom 1/

4 GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS REPORT CARD REPORT 2015 RANK 2014 RANK 2013 RANK CHANGE ASEAN RANK TOP 1/3 WEF -Global Competitiveness Report 47/140 52/144 59/ of 9 47 IFC- Ease of Doing Business Oct /189* 108/189** 13 5 of TI - Corruption Perception Index Dec /175 94/ of 9 58 HF - Economic Freedom Index 76/178 89/178 97/ of 9 59 WEF- Global Information Technology Report 76/143 78/148 86/ of 9 48 WEF - Travel and Tourism Report 74/141 n/a 82/ of 7 46 WEF - Global Enabling Trade Index Mar /138 n/a 8 6 of IMD -World Competitiveness Report 41/60 42/60 38/ of 5 20 WIPO - Global Innovation Index 83/ /143 90/ of 8 47 WB - Logistics Performance Index Mar /160 n/a 5 6 of 9 53 FFP - Fragile States Index *** 48/178 52/178 59/ of *Ranking based on the 2015 Doing Business Report ***As of September WEF **Ranking - Global based on the Gender 2014 Doing Gap Business Report Oct /142 5/ of 9 47 ***Reverse ranking (1 as worst) Fragile States Index

5 GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS REPORT PHILIPPINES and ASEAN Country/Economy Singapore Malaysia Thailand Indonesia Philippines Vietnam Lao PDR Cambodia Myanmar Brunei Darussalam 2015 (out of 140) 2014 (out of 144) 2013 (out of 148) 2012 (out of 144) 2011 (out of 142) 2010 (Out of 139) Change Change in 4 Years n/a n/a n/a 10 n/a n/a n/a n/a 3 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a *Brunei Darussalam is not included in the 2015 Ranking 5

6 PHILIPPINE RANKINGS PILLARS ( ) INDICATORS (2015) 0F 140 (2014) 0F 144 (2013) 0F 148 (2012) 0F 144 (2011) 0F 142 (2010) OF 139 CHANGE OVER- ALL RANKING st pillar: Institutions nd pillar: Infrastructure rd pillar: Macroeconomic environment th pillar: Health and primary education th pillar: Higher education and training th pillar: Goods market efficiency th pillar: Labor market efficiency th pillar: Financial market development th pillar: Technological readiness th pillar: Market size th pillar: Business sophistication th pillar: Innovation RED bottom 20% PURPLE bottom 40-21% GREEN bottom 50 41% BLACK 49% or higher CHANGE

7 PHILIPPINE ECONOMIC PROFILE MOST PROBLEMATIC FACTORS FOR DOING BUSINESS WEF- GCI 2015 REPORT 7

8 AREA CODE 47 WHO ARE THE ECONOMIES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD? /- 5 Rwanda 80 Egypt 81 El Salvador 82 Greece 83 Trinidad and Tobago 84 Philippines 85 Algeria 86 Argentina 87 Albania 88 Ukraine 89 Gambia, The /- 5 Kazakhstan 42 Italy 43 Latvia 44 Russian Federation 45 Mauritius 46 Philippines 47 Malta 48 South Africa 49 Panama 50 Turkey 51 Costa Rica 52 8

9 Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index 9

10 ABOUT THE RCCs 10

11 ABOUT THE RCCs 11

12 ABOUT THE CMCI 12

13 ABOUT THE CMCI USES OF THE INDEX 13

14 ABOUT THE CMCI FRAMEWORK 14

15 CMCI

16 16

17 RANKING CATEGORIES

18 WINNERS

19 WINNERS

20 WINNERS HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SUMMIT

21 WINNERS HIGHLIGHTS OF OF THE THE SUMMIT

22 WINNERS HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SUMMIT

23 LOCAL GOVERNMENTS COVERED SINCE 2013 Out of 144 Cities Out of 1490 Municipalities 2 remaining cities are in ARMM (Lamitan City, Basilan and Marawi City, Lanao del Sur.) 512 remaining municipalities. Out of 1,634 local governments in the Philippines 23

24 2015 TARGETS VS TOTAL LGUS COVERED is the total number of data points filled over the total number of data points required. 24

25 TOTAL LGUS COVERED is the total number of data points filled over the total number of data points required. 25

26 TOTAL NUMBER OF INPUTS REQUIRED FOR 2013, 2014, and 2015 PILLARS INDICATORS SUB-INDICATORS TOTAL NUMBER OF INPUTS Economic Dynamism is the total number of data points filled over the total number of data points required. 2 Government Efficiency Infrastructure TOTAL Inputs- refer to the number of data points/ cells required to be filled under each pillar. Example for Economic Dynamism: Indicator : (Total Annual Business Registrations) Sub- indicators : (# of new business registrations, # of renewals) Inputs : (Total annual count : 2011, 2012, 2013, Jan- March 2013, Jan- March 2014) 26

27 COMPLETION RATE ( ) 27

28 COMPLETION RATE ( ) 28

29 COMPLETION RATE: ECONOMIC DYNAMISM 29

30 COMPLETION RATE: GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY 30

31 COMPLETION RATE: INFRASTRUCTURE 31

32 COMPLETION RATE: REGIONAL AVERAGE is the total number of data points filled over the total number of data points required. 32

33 SUMMIT HIGHLIGHTS PROPER OF THE SUMMIT

34 HIGHLIGHTS SUMMIT PROPER OF THE SUMMIT 34

35 SUMMIT PROPER 35

36 SUMMIT PROPER 36

37 MEDIA PICK- UPS 37

38 MEDIA PICK- UPS AND MANY MORE! 38

39 MEDIA PICK- UPS FACEBOOK Insights(July) 3951 Engaged users Total Reach NCC Site (July) 48,794 pageviews 39

40 CMCI

41 DATA CAPTURE SHEET 41

42 REVIEW OF INDICATORS Refer to the Local Data Capture Sheet for the list of CMCI Indicators 42

43 REVIEW OF INDICATORS New Indicators to replace LGPMS scores on Transparencyand EconomicGovernance. 1. Complianceto BPLS Standards (Yes and No per Standard - Steps, Days, Signatories, Form) 2. Seal of Good Local Governance 3. Number of Social Welfare Development and Environmental Protection Related Programs. (Sponsored by the LGU, SponsoredbyPrivate Institutions.) 43

44 REVIEW OF INDICATORS New Indicators to replace LGPMS scores on Transparencyand EconomicGovernance. 4. Number of EGov services offered 5. Compliance to COA Rules 6. Number of Annual Local Directives Implemented 44

45 ISSUES Review of validation guidelines for RCCs/Academe and NCC Validators. 1. Allowing the use of N/A for data inputs which are not applicable to the LGU. (ex. Number of passenger bancas are not applicable to land- locked areas.) 2. Differentiate Zero from NDA? (ex. For Cost of water Zero means free, so all Zeros need to bevalidated ifits freeor itmeans that there is no data available (NDA) ) 45

46 ISSUES Need for updated data from different government agencies. (BSP- Banks and Financial institutions, NSCB- Population, DOF- BLGF, DILG- LGPMS data.) 2014 BLGS data on tax collections and LGU revenues and 2013 LGPMS data are not uploaded on the website. 46

47 ISSUES Inclusion of scores of Big Cities in the processing of Provincial Scores. - - Big Cities are not politically attached to the provinces (ex. Iloilo City, Cagayan de Oro City, Cebu City and Davao City.) 47

48 ISSUES Negros Island Region a New region? Declaration of the new region (May 29, 2015) falls beyond the data collection period (February to April, 2015). Inclusion of DILG representatives in the RCC. RCC Summit schedule for 2016 Pre or Post Election 48

49 SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES FOR 2016 PRE- ELECTION Schedule of Activities for 2016 I. Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index Conduct of Data Gathering Validation of Results by RCC Data Processing by NCC RCC Summit Publication of Results RCC Meetings II. Business Permits and Licensing Systems Customer Experience Survey BPLS Validation Jan. 1 Jan. Feb Feb Ma r. 1 Ma r. 15 Apr. 1 Ma AprMa Jun. Jun. Jul. Jul. Aug AugSep Sep Oct Oct Nov NovDecDec y.. 15y t. 1 t

50 SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES FOR 2016 POST ELECTION Schedule of Activities for 2016 I. Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index Conduct of Data Gathering Validation of Results by RCC Data Processing by NCC RCC Summit Publication of Results RCC Meetings II. Business Permits and Licensing Systems Customer Experience Survey BPLS Validation Jan. 1 Jan. Feb Feb Ma r. 1 Ma r. 15 Apr. 1 Ma AprMa Jun. Jun. Jul. y.. 15y Jul. 15 Aug AugSep Sep Oct Oct Nov NovDecDec t. 1 t Same as last year

51 ISSUES REGIONAL AWARDING Standard Look for Certificates / Plaques Limit on the number of LGUs to be recognized? RCCs to share what happened during their respective regional awarding ceremonies (e.g. Reg. 1, Reg. 4B and Reg. 12). 51

52 OTHER MATTERS 52

53 OTHER MATTERS Submission of Fund Utilization Report Post- terminal Report on the CMCI (c/o Academe) Submission of updated RCC directory 53

54 MOVING FORWARD NEXT RCC MEETING: Location? Regional Host? Date? 54

55 MOVING FORWARD RCC TOUR, October 15, 2015 Assembly Time 7:30am, Hotel Lobby Places to Visit: Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica Minoredele Sto. Niño Magellan s Cross Plaza Independencia Fort San Pedro South Road Properties (Desalination Plant) 55

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