MANILA CITY – In the 2023 edition of the Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index (CMCI), three local government units from the MIMAROPA region were included in the pool of the best local government sectors across the country.
Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro has been named as the Most Competitive under the Resilience Pillar among competitive cities. The municipality of San Fernando in Romblon has also been awarded as the second Most Competitive under the same aforementioned pillar besting other 3rd to 4th class municipalities in the country. Meanwhile, the municipality of Odiongan in Romblon has been recognized as the second Most Competitive under the Government Efficiency Pillar in the group of 1st to 2nd class municipalities.
Mayor Marilou Flores-Morillo of Calapan City, Mayor Trina Firmalo-Fabic of Odiongan, Romblon, and Mayor Nanette Tansingco of San Fernando, Romblon received their respective plaques of recognition during the Philippine Creative Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Congress on Thursday, September 29, 2023, at Manila Hotel in Manila City, Metro Manila. The local chief executives were accompanied by Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) MIMAROPA Region Provincial Directors Arnel Hutalla of DTI Oriental Mindoro, Noel Flores of DTI Romblon, and Roniel Macatol of DTI Marinduque.
DTI MIMAROPA collaborates with various local governments in promoting various economic activities, which contributes to their economic score in the CMCI Index.
The Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index is an annual ranking of Philippine cities and municipalities. CMCI measures the performance of LGUs on Economic Dynamism, Government Efficiency, Infrastructure, and Resiliency.
According to the CMCI website, rankings of Cities and Municipalities are based on the sum of their scores on five Pillars: Economic Dynamism, Government Efficiency, Infrastructure, Resiliency, and Innovation. The scoring framework pillars were integrated using the above-mentioned pillars: (1) Economic Dynamism matches the output and productivity of the local economy with the local resources, (2) Government Efficiency refers to the quality and reliability of government services and government support for effective and sustainable productive expansion, (3) Infrastructure pertains to the physical assets that connect, expand, and sustain a locality and its surroundings to enable provision of goods and services, (4) Resiliency applies to the capacity of a locality to build systems that can absorb change and disturbance and being able to adapt to such changes, and (5) Innovation refers to the ability of a locality to harness its creative potential to improve or sustain current levels of productivity.
For more information, the public may visit the official website of DTI’s CMCI, https://cmci.dti.gov.ph/.
Date of release: 29 September 2023
