It is an 8-year collaborative project of the Governments of Canada and the Philippines that will support the DILG and other relevant national agencies in creating enabling conditions for decentralization and improving policies, laws, programs and operations to enhance local governance and economic development.

The goal of the project is to foster efficient, responsive, transparent and accountable governance at all levels. Its purpose is to reduce poverty by strengthening local governance and supporting sustainable Local Economic Development ( LED). The Program operates both at the national and local levels, providing a better enabling environment for LGUs and improved prospects for local economic development in various communities.

LGSP-LED interventions are summed up in four approaches – partnership building, capacity development, LED strategic planning and knowledge management – all of which have been identified as formulas to help LGUs help themselves.

Initially, LGSP-LED will work with four selected LGU alliances by helping them strengthen their LED programming and partnership arrangements. These are the LGUs that have begun the LED process and would need assistance for further LED support and implementation.

The four LGU alliances, selected from 50 applicants, are the Guimaras Agri-Tourism Development Alliance, the Dapitan-Dipolog-Polanco-Katipunan-Roxas-Manukan (DDPKaRoMa) Growth Corridor in Zamboanga del Norte, the One Pangasinan Alliance of LGUs (OPAL), and the Bohol Integrated Area Development (BIAD) Cluster V.

Bohol Integrated Area Development (BIAD) Cluster V is composed of the municipalities of Batuan, Bilar, Carmen, Dagohoy, Danao, Pilar, Sagbayan and Sierra Bullones in Bohol.