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Regional Development Council

{{Short description|Philippine regional government agency}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.neda.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/FAQs_Regional-Development-Council.pdf|title=FAQs – The Regional Development Council|date=November 2018|access-date=August 11, 2019|website=National Economic and Development Authority}} All but two (Metro Manila and Bangsamoro) of the Philippines 17 regions has a Regional Development Council{{cite web |title=RDC Officials/Directory |url=http://www.neda.gov.ph/rdc-officialsdirectory/ |publisher=National Economic and Development Authority |accessdate=12 June 2020}} 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;{{cite web|url=https://marina.gov.ph:1443/policies/RA/ra7924.pdf|title=Republic Act No. 7924 – An Act Creating Metropolitan Manila Development Authority, Defining Its Powers And Function, Providing Funds Therefor And Other Purposes|date=March 1, 1995|access-date=August 9, 2019|author=Congress of the Philippines}} the Metro Manila Council within the MMDA serves as the National Capital Region's RDC. The defunct Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao's (ARMM) equivalent of an RDC was the Regional Economic and Development Planning Board.{{cite news |title=BARMM to consult LGUs on regional development plan formulation |url=https://pia.gov.ph/news/articles/1028101 |agency=Philippine Informationa Agency |date=October 3, 2019|accessdate=June 12, 2020}}

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.{{cite news |title=BARMM pushes creation of economic council |url=https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/1828149/Zamboanga/Local-News/BARMM-pushes-creation-of-economic-council |accessdate=June 12, 2020 |work=Sun Star Zamboanga |date=October 18, 2019}}

List

=Regional Development Councils (RDCs)=

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! scope="col" style="width:10%;" | Location

! scope="col" | Region
{{small|(regional designation)}}

! scope="col" | RDC

! Official site

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| style="font-weight:bold;" | Cordillera Administrative Region
{{small|(CAR)}}

| Regional Development Council – CAR

| {{Official website|https://car.neda.gov.ph/regional-development-council/}}

scope="row" data-sort-value="10" | File:Ph locator region 1.svg

| style="font-weight:bold;" | Ilocos Region
{{small|(Region I)}}

| Regional Development Council – Region 1

| {{Official website|https://ilocos.neda.gov.ph/}}

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| style="font-weight:bold;" | Cagayan Valley
{{small|(Region II)}}

| Regional Development Council – Region 2

| {{Official website|http://rdc.rdc2.gov.ph/}}

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| style="font-weight:bold;" | Central Luzon
{{small|(Region III)}}

| Regional Development Council – Region 3

| {{Official website|https://nro3.neda.gov.ph/rdc/}}

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| style="font-weight:bold;" | Calabarzon
{{small|(Region IV-A)}}

| Regional Development Council – Calabarzon

| {{Official website|https://calabarzon.neda.gov.ph/}}

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| style="font-weight:bold;" | Mimaropa
{{small|(Southwestern Tagalog Region)}}{{efn|group=list|Formerly designated as Region IV-B until 2016.}}

| Regional Development Council – Mimaropa

| {{Official website|http://mimaropa.neda.gov.ph/regions-profile/#}}

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| style="font-weight:bold;" | Bicol Region
{{small|(Region V)}}

| Regional Development Council – Region 5

| {{Official website|http://nro5.neda.gov.ph/historical-background/}}

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| style="font-weight:bold;" | Western Visayas
{{small|(Region VI)}}

| Regional Development Council – Region 6

| {{Official website|https://nro6.neda.gov.ph/}}

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| style="font-weight:bold;" | Central Visayas
{{small|(Region VII)}}

| Regional Development Council – Region 7

| {{Official website|https://nro7.neda.gov.ph/}}

scope="row" data-sort-value="21" | File:Ph locator region 8.svg

| style="font-weight:bold;" | Eastern Visayas
{{small|(Region VIII)}}

| Regional Development Council – Region 8

| {{Official website|https://nro8.neda.gov.ph/}}

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| style="font-weight:bold;" | Zamboanga Peninsula
{{small|(Region IX)}}

| Regional Development Council – Region 9

| {{Official website|https://nro9.neda.gov.ph/legal-mandate/}}

scope="row" data-sort-value="23" | File:Ph locator region 10.svg

| style="font-weight:bold;" | Northern Mindanao
{{small|(Region X)}}

| Regional Development Council – Region 10

| {{Official website|https://nro10.neda.gov.ph/}}

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| style="font-weight:bold;" | Davao Region
{{small|(Region XI)}}

| Regional Development Council – Region 11

| {{Official website|https://nro11.neda.gov.ph/rdc-xi/}}

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| style="font-weight:bold;" | Soccsksargen
{{small|(Region XII)}}

| Regional Development Council – Region 12

| {{Official website|http://rdc12.neda.gov.ph/}}

scope="row" data-sort-value="24" | File:Ph locator region 13.svg

| style="font-weight:bold;" | Caraga
{{small|(Region XIII)}}

| Regional Development Council – Region 13

| {{Official website|https://nro13.neda.gov.ph/}}

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=RDC-equivalent body in other regions=

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! scope="col" style="width:10%;" | Location

! scope="col" | Region
{{small|(regional designation)}}

! scope="col" | RDC-equivalent body

! Official site

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| style="font-weight:bold;" | National Capital Region
{{small|(NCR)}}

| Metro Manila Council (MMC)

| {{Official website|https://mmda.gov.ph/mm-council.html}}

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| style="font-weight:bold;" | Bangsamoro
{{small|(BARMM)}}

| Bangsamoro Economic and Development Council (BEDC)

| {{Official website|https://bedc.bangsamoro.gov.ph/}}

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