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Chapter 4 SOCCSKSARGEN Regional Development Framework

The SOCCSKSARGEN RDP 2017-2022 Midterm Update supports the country’s long-term vision that is anchored on AmBisyon Natin 2040 and supportive of the following:

● President Duterte’s 0 to 10-Point Socioeconomic Agenda. ● Agenda 2030 or the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); and ● Executive Order 70, series of 2018: Institutionalizing the Whole-of-Nation

Approach in Attaining Inclusive and Sustainable Peace, creating a National Task

Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, and Directing the Adoption of a

National Peace Framework.

With the onset of the pandemic, the RDC XII Sectoral Committees functioning as Planning Committees facilitated the preparation of the SOCCSKSARGEN Regional Recovery Plan (SOX RRP) Volume 1: Regional Economy Restart Plan (RERP) May-December 2020 and the Volume 2: Rehabilitation and Resiliency Plan (RaRP) 2021-2022. These plans aimed at guiding the recovery of Region XII from the adverse impact of the pandemic were approved and adopted by 4 policy-making bodies through RDRRMC XII-RDC XII-RIATFEID XII-RTFXII-CoVID19 Joint Resolution Nos. 1 and 6, series of 2020.

With the completion and endorsement of the Regional Recovery Plan with its two volumes plus the RDP Mid Term Update, SOCCSKSARGEN Region seeks to bounce back from the pandemic lockdown and become a Healthy and Resilient SOCCSKSARGEN Region By 2022. This development goal will be achieved by adopting the key strategies of enhancing the social fabric (Malasakit), reducing inequality (Pagbabago), and increasing the growth potential (Kaunlaran) of the economy.

These strategies will be sustained by a strong foundation in regional security and growth to sustain peace, strategic infrastructure build-up, and a clean and healthy environment. Figure 4.1 is the updated strategic development framework while Figure 4.2 illustrates the complementation among the development and action plans towards the goal of a healthy and resilient SOCCSKSARGEN by 2022 and a matatag, maginhawa at panatag na buhay para sa lahat by 2040.