From 60th To 8th: Tagum Gains Giant Leap In Nationwide Competitiveness Ranking

Davao Eagle

9 years ago

TAGUM CITY, Davao del Norte – The local government unit of Tagum City recently made headway in the over-all rankings of the Most Competitive Component Cities in the country.

The city, which was ranked the 60^th most competitive component city during last year’s summit, gained major points to be declared the over-all 8^th Most Competitive Component City during the 3^rd Regional Competitiveness Summit, held on July 16, 2015 at Pasay City, Philippines.

Mayor Allan L. Rellon (center), flanked by City Legal Officer Randy de Gala (2nd from left), DILG City Director Eliza Mendoza (3rd from left), City Investment Officer Jasmine Angcog (5th from left), and City Executive Assistant IV Mr. William Cuyacot (7th from left), received the plaque in behalf of the City Government of Tagum for being the 3rd Most Competitive Component City in Economic Dynamism from the Officers of the National Competitiveness Council of the Philippines. Photo by Leo Timogan/CIO Tagum

This year’s rankings of 978 municipalities and 142 cities, which include Highly Urbanized Cities as well as 108 Component Cities, was done using the Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index, a system developed by the National Competitiveness Council of the Philippines (NCC), through the Regional Competitiveness Committees, with the assistance of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

According to the official website of the NCC, the cities and municipalities are ranked on their competitiveness based on an overall competitiveness score. The overall competitiveness score is the sum of scores on three main pillars which pool data from several sub-indicators. The three main pillars are: economic dynamism, government efficiency and infrastructure.

The City of Tagum, ranked under the Independent Component and Component Cities Category, was shown to be the 3^rd most competitive component city on the pillar of Economic Dynamism, was ranked 34^th on the pillar of Government Efficiency and was the 21^st on the pillar of Infrastructure. The total score of 43.1699 garnered by the city on all three pillars made it possible for Tagum to be declared as the 8^th Over-all Most Competitive Component City for 2015.

The major winners of the third installment of the Regional Competiveness Summit include Davao del Sur as the Most Competitive Province; Mambajao, Camiguin as the Most Competitive 3^rd to 6^th Class Municipality; General Trias, Cavite as the Most Competitive 1^st to 2^ndClass Municipality; Naga City as the Most Competitive Component City; and Manila as the Most Competitive Highly Urbanized City. (Richi D. Gulle/ CIO-Tagum)