National development is defined as the ability of a country or countries to improve the social welfare of the people, by providing social amenities like quality education, potable water, transportation infrastructure, medical care etc.
As a guide in planning the country’s national development, The Philippine Development Plan was formulated in accordance with the Constitutional provision of Section 9, Article VII, directing the Government’s economic and planning agency to implement a continuing integrated and coordinated programs and policies for national development.
NEDA (National Economic and Development Authority) as the coordinator of the Philippine Development Plan is tasked to formulate development plans and ensure that the plan implementation will achieve the goal of national development.
Upon the assumption of President Benigno S. Aquino III of the country’s leadership, he introduce government programs that is based on his Social Contract with the Filipino People (16 Point Agenda), wherein he articulated a commitment to transformational leadership, economic stability, institutional reform in government service, gender equality, peace and order and environment. President Aquino III as the leader of our country believes that the government and those running it must share in the values of transparency, personal and institutional integrity and, honesty and good governance. He believes that leaders must lead by example and most importantly we must have a concrete faith in the Filipino.
The Social Contract envisions a country with an organized and shared rapid expansion the economy through a government dedicated in preparing and improving the people’s skills and energies as well as to get in control in using the natural resources.
The Philippine Development Plan, come out into a comprehensive set of strategies, policies and programs and activities within a structure of inclusive growth that will translate the administration’s development