The Western Visayas Regional Planning Summit 2009 seeks to address the challenges of MIG and WV towards a more collaborative and creative's partnerships for planning and implementation of a resilient region. It aims to:

• Identify and arrive at consensus on the bioregional challenges of the MIG and WV region
• Share experiences in addressing sustainability and governance issues
• Foster discussion on emerging creative trends in regional planning such as disaster risk management and climate change
• Identify priority policy issues, areas of collaboration and partnership among business sector, academe, international donor agencies, organizations, national government and non-government organizations in addressing issues of sustainable development