NEDA Board (2024)

Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr.
President of the Philippines
Chairperson

Arsenio M. Balisacan
Secretary
NEDA
Vice-Chairperson

Members:

The DBCC is composed of the Secretary of Budget and Management, as chair; Special Assistant to the President for Investment and Economic Affairs, Secretaries of NEDA and Finance, as members. To ensure close coordination on real, fiscal monetary and external sectors of the economy, the BSP was invited to attend as a Resource Institution to the DBCC, ETB and Sub-Committees under DBCC Resolution No. 98.1 dated June 22, 1998. As a resource institution, the BSP is responsible for the monetary measures and policies.

The DBCC recommends to the President the following:

1. Level of annual government expenditures and the ceiling of government spending for economic and social development, national defense, and government debt service;
2. Proper allocation of expenditures for each development activity between current operating expenditures and capital outlays; and;
3. Amount set to be allocated for capital outlays broken down into the various capital or infrastructure projects.

The INFRACOM is composed of the Secretary of the NEDA Secretariat as Chairman; Secretary of Department of Public Works and Highways as Co-Chairman; and the Executive Secretary, and the Secretaries of DOTr, DBM, DOF, DTI, DOE, Department of Agriculture (DA), Department of Tourism, and Department of Information and Communications Technology as members. The INFRACOM performs the following functions:

1. Advises the President and the NEDA Board on matters concerning infrastructure development, including highways, airports, seaports and shore protection; railways; power generation, transmission and distribution; telecommunications; irrigation, flood control and drainage, water supply and sanitation; national buildings for government offices; hospitals and related buildings; state colleges and universities, elementary, and secondary school buildings; and other public works;
2. Coordinates the activities of agencies, including government-owned and controlled corporations involved in infrastructure development; and
3. Recommends to the President necessary government policies, programs and projects concerning infrastructure development consistent with national development objectives and priorities.

Also covered in the rationalization of composition under AO No. 8 s. 2017, the ICC consists of the Secretary of DOF as Chairman; the Secretary of NEDA, as Co-Chairman; and the Executive Secretary, the Cabinet Secretary, the Secretaries of DBM, DOE, DTI, and the Governor of BSP as members. The ICC performs the following functions:

1. Evaluates the fiscal, monetary, and balance of payments; implications of major national projects; and recommends to the President the timetable of their implementation on a regular basis; This is similar to trading such as foreign exchange trading.
2. Advises the President on matters related to the domestic and foreign borrowings program; and
3. Submits a status of the fiscal, monetary and balance of payments implications of major national projects.

The Committee is composed of the Secretary of Labor and Employment as Chairman; the Secretary of NEDA as Co-Chair; and the Executive Secretary, the Secretaries of DA, Education,Health, Interior and Local Government, Agrarian Reform, and Social Welfare and Development.

Added members are the Secretaries of the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC), Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD), Technical Education And Skills Development Authority (TESDA), and Chairperson of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), by virtue of SDC Resolution no. 1, s. 2001; Secretary of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT)by virtue of SDC Resolution No. 4, s. 2019, and theOffice of the Special Assistant to the President for Investment and Economic Affairs (OSAPIEA)pursuant to Section 4 of Executive Order (EO) No. 49, s. 2023.

The SDC performs the following functions:

1. Advises the President and the NEDA Board on matters concerning social development, including education, manpower, health and nutrition, population and family planning, housing, human settlements, and the delivery of other social services.
2. Coordinates the activities of government agencies concerned with social development; and
3. Recommends appropriate policies, programs and projects consistent with the national development objectives.

The CTRM is composed of the Secretary of DTI as Chairman, with the Secretary of NEDA as Co-Chair. Its members are the Executive Secretary; the Secretaries of DA, DBM, DOLE, DAR, DOF, Department of Foreign Affairs, and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR); the Governor of BSP; and the Chairman of the Tariff Commission. The CTRM performs the following functions:

1. Advises the President and the NEDA Board on Tariff and related matters and on the effects on the country of various international developments;
2. Coordinates agency positions and recommends national positions for international economic negotiations; and
3. Recommends to the President a continuous rationalization program for the country’s tariff structure.

The RDCOM was created by virtue of Executive Order No. 257 issued on December 15, 2003. It is composed of the NEDA Secretary as Chair. Its member are the Secretaries of the DBM and DILG, Regional Development Council (RDC) Chair or Co-Chair each coming from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao, and four (4) regional development experts from the private sector and academe. The RDCOM performs the following functions:

1. Formulates and monitors the implementation of policies that reduce regional growth disparities, and promote rational allocation of resources among regions;
2. Serve as clearing house for key regional development policy/programs proposals which impact on two or more regions;
3. Formulates and monitor implementation of the framework for regional development of the Philippine Development Plan;
4. Directs the formulation and review guidelines for the regional allocation of agency budgetary resources;
5. Periodically reviews the viability of the regional configuration of the country and recommend to the President the re-delineation of regions, as may be necessary; and
6. Periodically reviews the composition, structure and operating mechanism of the RDCs and recommend to the President changes as may be necessary.

The NLUC was created by virtue of EO Nos. 770 and 770-A on December 1, 2008 and September 30, 2009, respectively. Composed of NEDA as the Chair, with Secretaries of DENR, DA, DAR, DTI, DPWH, DOTr, DOE, DILG, DOT, Department of Justice, Department of Science and Technology, DHSUD, and the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples, Presidents of the League of Provinces of the Philippines, the League of Cities of the Philippines, and the League of Municipalities of the Philippines, and two private sector representatives as members. The NLUC performs the following functions:

1. Advise the President on matters concerning land use and physical planning;
2. Formulate a national physical framework plan and other intersectoral policies and programs that guide the rational utilization and management of the country’s land and other physical resources, and the preparation of sub-national physical framework plans;
3. Promote the integration of land use and physical planning policies, plans and programs, including disaster risk management, into national socioeconomic plans and programs;
4. Decide and resolve land use policy conflicts among agencies of the national government;
5. Establish and maintain, in conjunction with various appropriate government agencies, a database system which would identify and classify the present and possible uses of specific land areas, public and private, comprising the total land resource of the nation; and
6. Provide policy directions to the Regional Land Use Committee in the performance of their physical planning functions.