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Programme Area III: All-Filipino Unity and National Development
 

This programme aims to foster better cohesion and a unity of purpose within and among the various overseas Filipino organizations so that their own interests and well-being could be promoted, supported or enhanced within a greater, more formidable all-Filipino community.

The task of promoting more cohesiveness and unity of purpose will be undertaken mainly by providing the fullest possible support and encouragement to initiatives of overseas Filipino community leaders to fostering Filipino national unity.

In this, government will mostly provide a supportive role so that the movement for all-Filipino unity is consistent with free enterprise, people empowerment and becomes sustainable on its own in the long term.

This programme will also undertake a parallel effort to instill a sense of Filipino national pride to overseas Filipinos / Filipino communities, and provide appropriate public recognition to those who have made a significant contributions to progress in their countries of residence or to the Philippines.

The other dimension of this programme maintains the objective of sustainable national development ad accordingly, the professional and technical expertise, financial resources, capital goods, as well as training and information resources at the disposal of overseas Filipinos will be systematically encouraged to flow into economically active sectors in the Philippines.

Furthermore, as the world's economic gravity shifts to the Asia-Pacific basin, overseas Filipino professionals will be enjoined to contribute to Philippine sustainable development as advocates of the Philippines, and as resource persons in their countries of residence which now seek expertise to guide policy making and investment decisions in the Asia-Pacific region.

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