The City Competitiveness Program (CCP) envisions to be a convergence point for principal actors in city development. It provides a venue for multisectoral dialogue, research and consultation assessing the competitiveness, and overall development performance of emerging cities.

The Program aims to encourage and, in fact, be the catalyst for multi-sectoral dialogue, research and consultations to assessing the competitiveness and overall development performance of emerging cities, and to respond to the issues thereto related.

Based on a framework of indicators, the CCP assesses the capability of Philippine cities to provide an environment that nurtures dynamism of its local enterprises and prosperity of its residents. The results of the study are presented in a national conference of local government units with the aim of sharing best practices and providing a venue for discussing common issues and concerns faced by Philippine cities. The results are also presented in regional presentations to provide local governments with first-hand information on the study.

The impact of this research and information is immediately felt, and indeed measurable, in terms of the response of the city officials to the data presented - and the subsequent results in the next year�s performance survey. But perhaps even more significant in terms of the AIM Policy Center�s mission, in addition to these presentations, the City Competitiveness Program now includes city-level workshops that help the relatively low performing cities identify areas for improvement and arrive at a holistic plan as identified by the city�s stakeholders.

In this flagship project of the City Competitiveness Program, the Center interacts and coordinates with identified academic partners in the cities that are part of the study.