DEPDev, formerly NEDA, is the primary policy, planning, coordinating, and monitoring arm of the Executive Branch on the national economy, with an enhanced mandate under Republic Act No. 12145. The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) serves as the independent planning agency of the government as provided under Section 9, Article XII of the Philippine Constitution. NEDA was further reorganized structurally and functionally in accordance with the provisions of Executive Order No. 230, s. 1987 to enhance its ability to coordinate the development planning and policy formulation process in order to achieve the objectives of sustainable economic growth coupled with an equitable distribution of income and wealth. acts as the principal technical management and executive arm of the Regional Development Council;
2. coordinates the formulation, implementation and monitoring of regional socio-economic, physical and special development plans, policies and investment programs;
3. appraises and reviews proposed programs and projects in the region requiring RDC action and/or NEDA endorsement;
4. monitors and evaluates the implementation of major and critical programs and projects in the region;
5. sets and formulates the policy framework for a research agenda on regional and subregional socioeconomic and physical development;
6. provides technical services to development partners (private sector, RLAs, NGOs, LGUs, SUCs, POs, etc.) at the regional, subregional and local levels in the areas of planning, investment programming, project development and evaluation, budgeting, and monitoring and evaluation;
7. manages and promotes knowledge utilization for regional development and productivity; and
Performs such other tasks as may be assigned by the DG and DDG and ADG of RDO.
