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RPDEV is a key resource for government and nongovernment organizations, sociopolitical and civic groups, public policy-markers, private-sector leaders, and individual citizens who seek to achieve lasting peace, manage sustainable development, encourage democratic political systems and effective governance, or foster socioeconomic diplomacy.
LASTING PEACE
- Promoting global and regional consensus
- Fostering national vision and unity
- Establishing harmony in diversity
SUSTAINABLE AREAS
- Strategizing for global competitiveness in a free market environment
- Developing strategies to promote investment, agriculture, trade, and industry
- Formulating poverty alleviation and rural development policies
- Enhancing job creation and generation of livelihood opportunities
- Integrating environment concerns in the development process
- Harnessing private-sector participation and resources for development
- Integrating ethnic and cultural communities into the development agenda
- Establishing sound fiscal management systems
DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL SYSTEMS AND EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE
- Developing responsible and responsive democratic political systems
- Developing a comprehensive framework and set of principles of governance- predictability, transparency, accountability
- Strengthening core governance processes - policy advocacy, regulation, devolution, decentralization, enforcement
- Institutionalizing honest, orderly, and peaceful elections (H.O.P.E.)
- Enhancing human resource capabilities
SOCIOECONOMICS DIPLOMACY
- Promoting the Philippines as a prime investment destination in the Asia-Pacific
- Mobilizing external resources for investment and trade
- Democratizing economic structures through liberalization, privatization and dismantling of monopolies, cartels, and other preferential arrangements
- Establishing global and regional networks to promote trade, technology transfer, and information exchange
- Promoting cultural understanding and respect for ethnic identity in forging regional cooperation.