THE Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) said it is cautiously optimistic about 2023, adding that there needs to be a “high degree” of collaboration across industries and sectors.
“The bigger challenge before us will be recovery—not just in the economic front but also in the structural rebuilding of the fundamentals needed to address the impact of the digital transformation and the changed business dynamics in our government on our respective organizations,” Benedicta Du-Baladad, President of MAP for 2023, said on Tuesday.
With this, the MAP president said this places an “enormous burden” on the business organization that will need “transformational” ideas and a “high degree of collaboration across industries and sectors.”
She noted that MAP can be the “linchpin” to generate ideas and help make cooperation happen.
Meanwhile, to back the business organization’s mission for this year, Du-Baladad unveiled MAP’s priority sectors, which she said are based on the major concerns of its members from the responses on a Quick Survey conducted in November 2022.
The results, she revealed, identified the top 10 issues ranked according to priority. In addition, MAP noted that Ease of Doing Business remains to be a top concern.
Last November 17, 2022, the business organization conducted a quick survey among its members so that the incoming MAP Board of Governors can conduct programs and activities that will address their concerns.
Members were asked to pick at most 10 primary concerns for 2023. The areas or sectors to choose from in the survey were: Agriculture, Arts & Culture; Climate change; Competitiveness of local industries; Competitiveness of local government units (LGUs); Cyber Security; Data Privacy Protection; Dealing with LGUs; Diversity and Inclusion; Doing Business in other countries; Ease of Doing Business; Economy; Education; Energy; Entrepreneurship; ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance); Fiscal and Financial; Healthcare; Human Capital Development; ICT; Infrastructure; Innovation; Justice and the Rule of Law; Labor and Employment; Next Generation Leadership; Plastic Pollution; Public-Private Partnership; Shared Prosperity; Social Justice; Sports; Science, Technology, Engineering and Math promotion to students; Supply Chain Management; Sustainability; Taxation; Trade and Industry; Transportation; Urban Development; and water security.
However, the survey results show that MAP’s members choose to address these concerns for this year: Ease of Doing Business; Economy; Energy; Climate Change; competitiveness of local industries; Education; Agriculture; Infrastructure; ESG; and Dealing with LGUs.
Meanwhile, Du-Baladad told reporters on the sidelines of MAP’s 75th Inaugural Meeting on Tuesday that the business organization’s key legislative priorities for 2023 will be based on the 10 concerns of its members.
“The concerns of the business, [that’s where we come in], anything related to economy and business. There are 10 concerns of businesses and we will look into all those and we’ll try to support, look at it and see what we can do,” the MAP president said.
One of MAP’s missions is to advocate for reforms that “help shape a brighter future for the Philippines.”
Last June 29,2022, MAP submitted its recommendations for President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.
The business group earlier called on the President to address the country’s “urgent” education crisis; to upgrade the public health system to enhance the productivity of the agriculture and agribusiness sector; and to lower the cost of doing business, among others. (Full story here: https://businessmirror.com.ph/2022/07/07/map-pushes-aggressive-export-development-plan-under-pbbm-administration/)