Improving the quality of urban life through cooperation and partnership is foremost in MIGEDC’s vision for the Metropolitan Iloilo – Guimaras area. In the words of MIGEDC “champion” and former Iloilo City Mayor, now Congressman Jerry Treñas, “good governance at the metropolitan level is an imperative first step toward the pursuit of improved quality of urban life in large cities”.
It is upon these contexts that this study seeks to find out how metropolitan alliances promote good metropolitan governance. Taking the case of Metro Iloilo-Guimaras Economic Development Council (MIGEDC), this paper will try to study and analyze the alliance’s institutional stability, financial sustainability, adherence to good governance norms, and extent of goal achievement as indicators of good metropolitan governance. Thus, this study seeks to answer the main research question as stated:
How does MIGEDC strive to attain good metropolitan governance in terms of institutional stability and financial sustainability, norms of good governance and achieving its functions and goals as a metropolitan alliance?