Regional Development Council
Regional Development Councils (RDCs) are the highest policy-making body governing the administrative regions of the Philippines. They serve as the subnational counterpart of the National Economic and Development Authority. All but two (Metro Manila and Bangsamoro) of the Philippines 17 regions has a Regional Development Council although Metro Manila has a metropolitan body which serves the same function as an RDC. Bangsamoro, an autonomous region, is also set to establish their own equivalent to a RDC. Metro Manila is recognized in law as a "special development and administrative region," and was thus given a metropolitan authority ; the Metro Manila Council within the MMDA serves as the National Capital Region's RDC. The defunct Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao's (ARMM) equivalent of an RDC was the Regional Economic and Development Planning Board. Under the Bangsamoro Organic Law, the ARMM's successor, Bangsamoro is mandated to establish the Bangsamoro Economic and Development Council (BEDC) which would serve as the autonomous region's equivalent of an RDC.