EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 689
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 689 -
INSTITUTING A NATIONAL RESOURCES EXPERT WITHIN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN
SETTLEMENTS, PROVIDING FOR THE INTEGRATIVE DELIVERY OF BASIC NEEDS AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES
WHEREAS, the Ministry of Human
Settlements has been mandated to undertake the development of urban and
rural settlements in the manner that assures the adequate fulfillment
of basic needs and the self-reliance and interdependence of human
communities;
WHEREAS, the Bagong Lipunan Sites and Services Program implemented by
the Ministry of Human Settlements in pursuit of this mandate has
innovatively adopted the shelter-cum-livelihood approach as a basic
needs strategy to development;
WHEREAS, the full pursuit of this national development strategy
increasingly demands the cooperation of sectoral agencies of government
and the coordination of their sectoral developmental programs toward
the integrative delivery of basic services to the individual and
community;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, by virtue of the powers vested
in me by the Constitution, do hereby direct and order the following:
1.
There is hereby constituted in the Ministry of Human Settlements a
National Resource Expert System to undertake the integrative and
coordinative delivery of the basic need sectoral development programs
primarily, but not exclusively within the context and framework of the
Bagong Lipunan Sites and Services Program.
2. The
sectoral developmental programs to be coordinated by the National
Resource Expert System shall cover the following basic needs: food,
water, clothing, shelter, power, livelihood (economic base), medical
services, education, culture and technology, mobility and sports and
recreation and ecological balance.
3. As a matter
of developmental policy, the National Resource Expert System shall
adopt the implementing strategy of bringing basic services directly to
his community rather than for the individual to seek basic services in
the central offices of government. For this purpose, the National
Resource Expert System shall utilize mobile service delivery terminals,
including Development Caravans, in this task.
4. In
implementing this Order, the Ministry of Human Settlements shall:
a.
designate from among the pertinent sectoral agency offices National
Resource Experts in each of the above basic
b. determine
from among the basic need sectoral programs of government those
activities that will be coordinated by the System
c. design the
modes and instruments for the delivery of such services by the System
d. direct such
integrated delivery of services and report the same to the President.
5.
In order to effectively monitor and evaluate the delivery of basic
services to specific communities as implemented by the System, the
Ministry of Human Settlements shall install and active the Maharlika
Center in the Office of the President as the information center of the
System. The Center shall operate within a communications and
information-processing network and facility to be accordingly
established, and for this purpose, the Ministry of Human Settlements
shall be authorized to call on any officer and agency of government of
furnish relevant information and reports for monitoring and evaluation
purposes.
6. Agencies
constituting, participating and cooperating in the System shall
indicate in their budget appropriations, such program/project/activity
items and their corresponding amounts as are involved by their
participation. Such incremental budgetary support as may be required by
the participation of sectoral agencies in the System shall be submitted
to the Ministry of the Budget for funding support in accordance with
existing budgetary rules and regulations of the Government.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 11th day of the month of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen
hundred and eighty-one.
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