BUSINESS ADVOCACY & POLICY

The Business Advocacy and Policy (BAP) focuses on the needs of its members in the Cebu business community for an advocacy of having a common agenda on making Cebu More Competitive and address concerns on the ease and lowered cost of doing business, security, resiliency and other stumbling blocks of business growth and development. CCCI maintains an image that promotes its core values (Integrity, Commitment, Synergy and Service) and its lead role as the voice of Cebu’s Business Community. It fosters interrelationships with identified government and non-government enablers; thus, it engages Trustees, Champions, Task Forces, Committees in its activities, projects and programs with the Vice President for External Affairs and Relations.

PURSUE AND INFLUENCE PROGRAMS AND POLICIES FOR THE EASE AND LOWERED COST OF DOING BUSINESS

BUSINESS POLICY ADVOCACY

The CCCI has been able to lobby the sentiments and concerns of our members to the concerned agencies and department through the configuration of position papers to official statements.

IMAGE PROMOTION THROUGH PRESS RELEASES

Image promotion through press releases

EASE AND COST OF DOING BUSINESS

CCCI has been committed in pursuing or influencing policies and programs on the ease and lowered cost of doing business.

CONSULTATION MEETINGS

By forging strategic partnerships with other businesses, trade or industry associations and other sectoral organizations, the Cebu Chamber was able to conduct focus group discussion (FGDs), round table discussions (RTDs) and fora concerning diverse topics and issues.

CREATING & STRENGTHENING BUSINESS LINKAGES

The Cebu Chamber participates actively in the various initiatives of different government agencies, non-government agencies (NGO), foreign institutions and other sectoral groups in order to maintain and strengthen its linkages with other organizations through networking, knowledge sharing and learning opportunity and conversations with key figures.

CCCI REPRESENTATION IN THE GOVERNMENT

The Cebu Chamber continues to be the business community’s voice in government development councils and special bodies to leverage policies and an ecosystem that will facilitate ease in doing business, lower the cost of transactions and influence infrastructure investments programming to ensure smooth flow of goods, people and services and thereby support key economic drivers both in this island province of Cebu and the Central Visayas region, and even at the national level.