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EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 99 -
ESTABLISHING THE PRESIDENTIAL TASK FORCE ON THE 20/20 INITIATIVE
WHEREAS,
the 1995 World Summit for Social Development endorsed the 20/20
Initiative for universal access to basic social services, calling on
developed and developing countries to agree on a mutual commitment to
allocate, on average, twenty percent (20%) of Official Development
Assistance and twenty percent (20%) of the national budgets,
respectively, to basic social programs;
WHEREAS, the Philippine Constitution mandates that the goal of the
national economy is the more equitable distribution of opportunities,
income and wealth;
WHEREAS, the Philippine Government is committed to the attainment of
economic development, social equity and social justice.
WHEREAS, the Philippine Government has considered poverty eradication,
people empowerment and the provision of basic social services as
essential components of its agenda for governance;
WHEREAS, this 20/20 initiative was reviewed and discussed at a special
follow-up conference in Hanoi, Vietnam on 27-29 October 1998, which
underlined that the goal of universal access to basic social services
is based on ethical, legal and economic grounds; and reiterated the
indicative allocation of 20/20 in order to close the gap between
current spending and the minimum level required to reach universality;
WHEREAS, the more efficient and effective delivery of basic social
services is consistent with the Philippine Government’s agenda for
poverty eradication and people empowerment;
WHEREAS, the social development objectives of the 1995 World Summit for
Social Development (in the 20/20 initiative) parallel that of the
Philippine Government’s in the sense that both aim at universal and
comprehensive access to basic social services, particularly health and
education;
WHEREAS, there is a need to systematically mobilize foreign relations
to meet national needs such as peace, development and human dignity.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA, President of the Republic
of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do
hereby order:
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The Chairmen and the members may designate their respective representatives to the Task Force.
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The Secretariat shall be responsible for convening and preparing for
the meetings of the Task Force.
The Secretariat shall have such number of personnel as may be necessary
for the efficient and elective performance of its functions. All
agencies represented in the Task Force may detail or assign an employee
or employees to form the Secretariat on secondment. The Task Force may
provide the members of the Secretariat with such honoraria or
allowances as may be allowed by law and at rates consistent with those
prescribed pursuant to the Unified Compensation and Position
Classification System under RA No. 6758.
The DAP shall provide the necessary space and facilities for the
Headquarters of the Secretariat.
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Sec. 8. Since 19.07.98.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 6th day of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
ninety nine.
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