EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 517
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 517 - ADOPTING
THE BAGONG LIPUNAN SITES AND SERVICES PROGRAM AS A DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
WHEREAS,
the government has declared it a national policy to achieve an
equitable distribution of socio-economic opportunities in the country
to, among others, curb the alarming migration rate;
WHEREAS, the National Coordinating Council for Town Planning, Housing
and Zoning created under Letter of Instructions No. 511 has affected
the preparation and development of town plans, housing and zoning
measures including the formulation of interim development controls,
identifying thereby in each town the feasible program and projects that
will permit and spur socio-economic development;
WHEREAS, Presidential Decree No. 1396 empowers the President to declare
areas for development as Bagong Lipunan sites;
WHEREAS, the development of Bagong Lipunan sites into model human
settlements requires full integration and implementation of the eleven
(11) basic human needs identified by the Ministry of Human Settlements;
WHEREAS, this full integration necessitates budgetary innovation and
judicious reallocation of financial resources;
WHEREAS, there is a need to develop demonstration settlements which
shall illustrate to surrounding communities the benefits of the human
settlements approach to community building;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President and Prime Minister of
the Republic of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me
by the Constitution, do hereby order:
1.
The adoption of the Bagong Lipunan Sites and Services Program of the
Ministry of Human Settlements as a major component of the development
strategy of the government which shall include:
a.
Selection and development of depressed communities according to the
following classification:
i.
Neighborhood Community of 50-100 families living in an area of at least
2.5 hectares, for each of 1,600 towns and cities.
ii.
Agro-Industrial Community of 100-500 families living in an area of
50-200 hectares, for each of 77 provinces.
iii.
Water-shed Based Ecological Community of 500 or more families situated
in a water-shed area of at least 500 hectares, for each region of the
country.
b.
Coordination of programs and projects of the National Local Governments
in declared Bagong Lipunan sites to effect:
i.
Provision of eleven (11) basic human needs; and
ii.
Institutional development
2.
The creation of a Cabinet Committee for Bagong Lipunan Sites and
Services to plan and implement the program with the Minister of Human
Settlements as Chairperson and the following as members: Minister of
Planning, Minister of Agriculture, Minister of the Budget, Minister of
Education and Culture, Minister of Energy, Minister of Health, Minister
of Industry, Minister of Labor, Minister of Local Government and
Community Development, Minister of National Defense, Minister of
Natural Resources, Minister of Public Works, Transportation and
Communications, and Minister of Trade.
3. The Cabinet
Committee shall be assisted by the Ministry of Human Settlements as
Program Secretariat with the MHS Deputy Minister as Secretary General.
The Program Secretariat shall (i) rationalize the affected programs of
the MHS and its attached agencies including the Slum Improvement and
Resettlement Program of NHA and those of the National Resource Experts
in the identified sites; (ii) utilize the National Resource Experts of
the MHS in the implementation of the various projects under this
program; and (iii) in coordination with the Ministry of Finance and the
Ministry of the Budget identify and source external sources of funds to
finance major components of the program.
4. The
Ministry of the Budget shall
i.
release in CY 1979 to the Ministry of Human Settlements as Program
Secretariat the amount of five million pesos (P5,000,000.00) for the
administration of the program;
ii. program
and release for the Ministry of Human Settlements, P1 million for each
of the 1,600 towns and cities to implement the neighborhood community
approach upon request of the Minister of Human Settlements and upon
approval by the President; Provided that fund release shall be in
accordance with the program targets and annual funds flow approved by
the President; and
iii. identify
fund sources, both internal and external, to finance the
Agro-industrial and Water-shed Based Community; provided that if funds
identified are within the operational jurisdiction of a Ministry or
Agency of the government, such Ministry or Agency shall be responsible
for project implementation under the overall supervision of the Cabinet
Committee;
5.
The Cabinet Committee shall submit regular reports to the President and
Prime Minister on the progress of the program implementation.
DONE in the City of Manila,
this 9th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
seventy-nine.