EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 511
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 511 - CREATING
AN INTERIM INTER-AGENCY TASK FORCE TO PROVIDE FOR PRIVATE SECTOR
PARTICIPATION IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AGRO-INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AREAS
WHEREAS,
there is an urgent need to integrate and replicate countryside
development efforts in key Agro-Industrial Development Areas (AIDA) in
order to implement the Countryside Agro-Industrial Development Strategy
(CAIDS) as adopted by the government through Cabinet Resolution No. 39,
series of 1989;
WHEREAS, it is the declared policy of the State to recognize the
indispensable role of the private sector in national growth and
development;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, by
virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order:
Section 1. There shall be an interim Inter-Agency
AIDA Task Force, hereinafter referred to as the Task Force, which is
hereby authorized to provide for private sector participation in the
establishment of Agro-Industrial Development Areas.
For this purpose, the Task Force shall composed of:
Chairman:
Chairman of the Coordinating
Council on the Philippine
Assistance
Program
Co-Chairman:
Secretary of Agriculture
Members:
Secretary of Agrarian
Reform Secretary of
Socio-Economic Planning
Secretary of
Trade and Industry
Chairman of
Development
Bank of the
Philippines
President of
the Land Bank
of the
Philippines
Sec. 2. The Task Force shall:
a)
Identify and allot foreign and local sources of funding for the
establishment of family farm schools, rural development centers or
other capability building centers, which will continuously provide the
necessary values formation, managerial and technical training,
cooperative development, savings promotion and other capability
building programs;
b) Contract
with non-government organizations (NGOs) and other private entities
that will establish and operate the family farm schools and rural
development centers. Funds for the operating expenses of these
institutions are to be generated by these NGOs from their
agro-industrial enterprises and other income generating projects in the
AIDA; and
c) Monitor,
coordinate and facilitate the development efforts of all AIDA
participants to ensure full and proper implementation of the objectives
of the AIDA program.
Sec. 3. The Task Force may provide direct and
indirect grants to NGOs for the establishment and operation of family
farm schools and rural development centers from whichever funds that it
can generate from local and foreign sources. It may also enter into
such agreements or contracts, which it may deem appropriate to effect
the herein given mandate as may be warranted by circumstances relating
to the source and use of funds, land ownership, corporate character of
the contracting parties and other relevant matters.
Sec. 4. The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby
authorized to sing and execute, for and in behalf of the Task Force,
agreements or contracts extending grants or other forms of assistance
entered into by the Task Force.
Sec. 5. A Task Force Secretariat to be jointly
formed by the CCPAP and Department of Agriculture shall assist the Task
Force in the performance of its duties and functions.
Sec. 6. The Task Force shall facilitate and
coordinate with the private sector for the establishment of
agro-industrial facilities.
Sec. 7. The Task Force shall be authorized to call
upon any department, bureau, office, agency or any instrumentally of
government for material and manpower assistance as may be necessary in
implementing the AIDA program.
Sec. 8. All rights, duties, obligations, powers
and functions of the Task Force shall be transferred to the Department
of Agriculture, effective June 30, 1992, or soon thereafter at the
discretion of the President.
Sec. 9. If any provisions of this Order is
declared unconstitutional or illegal, the other provisions hereof shall
remain effective.
Sec. 10. All administrative issuances, orders,
circulars, and memoranda inconsistent with this Order are hereby
modified amended or repealed accordingly.
Sec. 11. This Order shall take effect
immediately.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 16th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
ninety-two.
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