In a bid to promote a science and technology-driven approach to local and regional development, Cong. Erico Aristotle Aumentado of the 2nd District of Bohol drafted and filed in 2017 a bill to convert the first-class municipality of Ubay into a component city, and be recognized as the “Science City” of Ubay, being home to a number of S&T research centers such as the Philippine Carabao Center-Ubay Stock Farm, Bohol Experimental Station for Rice Research and Development, BFAR’s Sinandigan Multispecies Hatchery, and the Ubay Green Park and Techno Center. The bill envisions Ubay to become the “science techno-hub center of Bohol” (House Bill 6123, 2017). Cong. Aumentado is seeking to file a revised version of this bill. To support this initiative, this project is being proposed to a) advance more evidence-based (learning from the experience of the Science City of Munoz in Nueva Ecija), innovative, and inclusive policymaking towards transforming the Municipality of Ubay into a science city, and b) determine the socioeconomic and political merits, feasibility, and possible alternatives to the proposal with relevant stakeholders at the local level (municipal and district levels)—government, private sector, civil society, and affected communities. This project is in line with the DOST’s national R&D agenda to “provide innovative solutions that benefit Filipinos, particularly the poor, through a problem-focused approach to multi-disciplinary and multi institutional research and development (R&D) collaboration”, and is expected to contribute to facilitating transparent, accountable, and participatory governance, strengthening public-private-civil society engagement in directing S&T-related R&D and public policymaking, and, in the long-term, S&T-driven inclusive growth, human development and poverty reduction in Ubay and the province of Bohol. The municipal government of Ubay will stand to gain from the following initiatives that provide resources, capabilities, and opportunities for local development: 1. The National Integrated Basic Research Agenda, spearheaded by the NRCP, which can mobilize the active engagement of NRCP members in Bohol and the Central Visayas region 2. The FEPP which has a nationwide scope of activities which has included a Visayas multi-stakeholder forum that has engaged HEIs and academics in the three Visayas regions. The Science City of Ubay will create an attractive opportunity for the Visayas Science community to translate their disciplinal energy and knowledge into actions. 3. RA 10121, or the DRRM law, will provide additional government and civil society resources, capabilities, and opportunities considering that Bohol has been struck by a devastating earthquake in 2014 and continues to be at risk to many natural and terrorist hazards 4. The sustainable development goals championed by international and national organizations will find a Science City of Ubay as a particularly hospitable arena for their programs and initiatives. In the final report, lessons learned from other ‘technopoles’ in other parts of the world (e.g. Japan. Malaysia, and Thailand) will be presented and corresponding recommendations made. Moreover, the participatory consultative processes to engage the Boholanos will generate from the respondents themselves the various niches and specific opportunities that the Science City of Ubay will bring forth. These niches and specific opportunities will be systematically documented in the final report.