2. The institutional, legal and financial aspects of the MIGEDC as a metropolitan alliance are interrelated and thus reinforcing of its purpose, structure, systems and resources. These aspects of metropolitan governance are enhanced and developed by the collaborative and healthy interaction of the governmental actors, private/business sectors and the civil society that serve as the foundation in which a metropolitan alliance is built on. Moreover, MIGEDC as a metropolitan alliance is influenced by binding and unbinding factors that affect relationships inside and outside of the alliance. Thus, it is stressed that binding factors should be strengthened by the alliance while the unbinding factors should be corrected or mitigated;