The theme of this issue of the Philippine Planning Joumal is a consideration of the partnership between private enterprise and the government sector in the process of development. This particular article concerns itself with a partnership between private enterprise and Government Depirtments and Agencies not in the field of actual devalopment but in the field of planning, particularly the provision of consultancy services.
One aim that is always uppermost in a partnership that has been set up to undertake development is to harness constructively both the profit motive of the private sector and the social end economic responsibilities of the government sector in order to elicit from the conflict of interest that will inevitably arise a balance that provides the community at large not only with what it needs in terms of new facilities, new buildings and new roads, but also manages to do this in a way that makes sound financial sense end achieves it in as short a time scale as possible.