Birth of A Permanent Mechanism: The MinDA Act of 2010 (RA 9996)

1. Birth of A Permanent Mechanism: The MinDA Act of 2010 (RA 9996)

2. Key Functions: • Formulate an integrated development framework for Mindanao • Integrate Mindanao-wide, inter-rgional and region-specific (with Mindanao-wide impact) programs and projects • Act as the Philippine Coordinating Office for BIMP-EAGA (PCOBE) • Provide strategic direction for Mindanao

3. BIMP-EAGA VISION Twin strategic vision of BIMP-EAGA enunciated during the 5th BIMP-EAGA Leaders Summit in Thailand: Establishing BIMP-EAGA as the food basket and premier eco-tourism destination for ASEAN and the rest of Asia • Taking full advantage and maximizing the sub-region’s rich agro-fishery resource base and biodiversity (3rd largest in the world) Banana plantation

4. Need to continue our advocacy to have a fair share in the national budget Encourage and increase private sector participation in financing development projects (i.e. PPP private-public partnerships) Establish a mechanism for resource mobilization in financing programs and projects in Mindanao Inadequate Budget for Mindanao

5. Team Mindanao Forging Partnership for Development • Regional Agriculture & Fishery Councils • RDCs/REPDB-ARMM • Regional Line Agencies • National Line Agencies • Consultative Council • CONFED • Donor Organizations • Mindanao Working Group • Mindanao Lawmakers Association • Mindanao Business Council • Muslim Business Forum • Southern Philippines Tourism Council • Chambers of Commerce in Mindanao • Non-government/Civic Organizations such as Rotary Clubs in Mindanao • MINCODE • Kusog Mindanaw • Panagtagbo Mindanao Indigenous Peoples • Legal & Natural Resource Center/Kasama sa Kalikasan • Bishop-Ulama Forum • MINDACOMNET • Mindanao Studies Consortium Foundation, Inc. • Mindanao Commission on Women • Mindanao Irrigators’ Association • MEDCo Task Forces on ICT, Roads, Energy, Water Transport • IMAGs for Road/Irrigation Projects • Agencies under the Mindanao NATIN (National Initiatives), KALAHI Program

7. Challenges and Opportunities for the Mindanawon Entrepreneur A Presentation of Sec. Luwalhati R. Antonino to the 10th HRSD Conference 21 July 2012, General Santos City

8. Outline of Presentation • The Frameworks • Opportunities • Challenges • MinDA Programs • Role of TVET Sector

9. The Frameworks President Noy’s Social Contract with the Filipino People: • Creation of jobs at home, so that working abroad will be a choice rather than a necessity • Rural enterprises and farms as vital to achieving food security and more equitable economic growth • Providing conditions conducive to the growth and competitiveness of private businesses, big, medium and small. Mindanao 2020 Vision: Mindanawons of all cultural or socio-economic back­grounds have attained a sustainably uplifted quality of life through their collective achievement of a peaceful, developed, autonomous and integrated Mindanao that is the vanguard for the country’s sustainable development.

10. Mindanao 2020:Themes • Peace and Security • Economy and Environment • Human Development and Social Cohesion • Governance, Institutions and Politics • Enabling Conditions

11. Mindanao 2020: Economy & Environment A vibrant Mindanao economy that is unified and integrated, driven by socially and environmentally responsible enterprises that are internationally competitive, built on judicious and sustainable management of its rich human, natural and cultural endowments, and providing wide employment and broad and equitable benefits to all Mindanawons

12. Mindanao 2020Economy & Environment: Twin Thrusts • Economic and Ecological Integration • Inclusive Wealth Creation • Key to the upliftment of Mindanawons’ lives lies beyond mere income generation, but in wealth creation that is participated in and benefits the widest cross-section of diverse Mindanao society

13. Economy & Environment: Strategies • Formulate area development plans based on watersheds, riverbasins and other ecosystems as units of planning • Focus on key strategic economic drivers • Address gaps and weaknesses in the value chain • Pursue massive enterprise development • Broaden and deepen the agriculture/agribusiness sector • Promote a vibrant services sector via trade, tourism and ICT-based services • Widen Mindanao’s industrial base • Pursue win-win approaches towards ecological integrity and economic development

14. Opportunities Key strategic economic drivers • Fisheries and mariculture (e.g., tuna, sardines, seabass, eel, prawn, crabs) • Seaweed farming and processing • Tourism (inland, river and marine-based ecotourism) • Riverway and coastal waterway transport systems • Inter-island and international shipping; ship and boat building and repair • Offshore oil and gas exploration and production • Agri and agribusiness • ICT-based services • Mineral processing and metal manufacturing

15. Challenges that We Are Pushing to Address Hospitable enabling environment for entrepreneurship and enterprise development: • Policy Reforms • Repeal of cabotage law • Pocket open skies • Access to basic infrastructure including low-cost energy and efficient transport facilities • Access to technology and financing support

16. Challenges that We Are Pushing to Address Hospitable enabling environment for entrepreneurship and enterprise development: Link to various market players Streamlined processes and minimal transaction costs Catalytic investments by the public sector where voluntary private investment is impeded by historical peace and order problems meaningful enticements to encourage investments in conflict-affected areas, whether in small, medium or large enterprises

17. Challenges that We Are Pushing to Address Pursuit of massive SME promotion and development: • Maximizing unique livelihood and employment opportunities from Mindanao’s rich cultural base • Halal industry • Islamic Finance • Products and services showcasing distinctive arts of Mindanao • Developing innovative mechanisms to effectively channel savings from overseas remittances toward local investment and enterprise development in Mindanao • Promoting techno-entrepreneurship (esp. among the younger generation – new grads and out-of-school youth) • Enterprises in ICT to which the young have a natural affinity

18. Challenges that We Are Pushing to Address Pursuit of massive SME promotion and development: Proactively identifying and targeting specific foreign investor groups Developing and marketing a Mindanao brand Fostering dispersal of SME agri-processing enterprises in primary production areas

19. Some Related Programs of MinDA: The Mindanao Peace and Development (MPAD) Assistance Program

20. Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM) • GEM works with producer associations and cooperatives, the Mindanao Business Council, the ARMM Business Council, chambers of commerce and private firms under the Business Support Organizations (BSO) Support and Development

21. Microenterprise Access to Banking program (MABS)

22. Assists partner rural banks in the Philippines to increase the financial services they provide to the microenterprises, small farmers, and low-income households by providing microfinance technical assistance and training

23. Role of TVET Sector and Academe • Offering of courses (both degree and vocational) that are match with the demands of the industry (e.g., Agrifishery and agribusiness-related, Tourism, ICT, mining-related sciences) • PPP as a strategy/mechanism for partnership

24. Daghang Salamat! MINDANAO DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY 4F SSS Building, Bajada, Davao City Tel. No.: (082) 221-1345 and Telefax: (082) 221-8108 Email: info@minda.gov.ph