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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 638 -
CALLING UPON GOVERNMENT BUDGET ADMINISTRATORS TO HELP IN THE FURTHER
IMPROVEMENT OF THE BUDGET PROCESS |
WHEREAS, some gaps still exist in the implementation of approved policies and approaches in national fiscal administration;
WHEREAS, the attainment of a budget system that is fully supportive of the national plan as approved under P.D. No. 1200 requires total effort from all persons in the budget field;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines do hereby issue the following instructions:
1.
Budget officers of all agencies of the National Government shall:
a.
evaluate the operations of their respective agencies for the purpose of
identifying (1) new sources of non-tax revenues so as to increase
General Fund income and thus augment the limited resources now
available to government and (2) ways of increasing existing non-tax
revenue sources;
b. develop a
long-term organization for their respective agencies, working hand in
hand with agency management analysts, in preparation for the type of
government organization outlined in the approved long-term development
plan;
c. suggest the
components of a long term compensation plan that will ultimately
rationalize existing disparities of compensation in the public and
private sectors and among different positions in the national and local
governments, keeping in mind the limited funds available to government
and the targeted levels of government expenditure included in the
national development plan;
d. identify
specific priority activities within each agency's budgetary programs
and projects, representing the implementation of the national
development plan, and including activities financed by foreign and
domestic borrowings, peso requirements of foreign-assisted projects,
agency participation in regional development activities, agency
activities undertaken as part of multi-agency undertakings, sequential
implementation of continuing long term projects, and other activities
that call for similarly continuous monitoring and special budgetary
treatment;
e. incorporate
in the budge preparation process those activities that are proposed to
be financed by borrowings, both foreign and domestic, consistent with
standing policy for a national resource budget that incorporates all
expenditures regardless of financing source. Planning and budget
officers of agencies shall work together in the identification of
projects and the preparation of project studies and of work and
financial plans pertaining to these projects, for the purpose of
preparing an annual national debt program, including activities
requiring full or partial financing from project borrowings and a
schedule of cash flows during project construction and operation;
f. identify
ways and means of expediting regional budgeting as directed under LOI
447 and 448, notably the identification of authority and responsibility
in budget preparation, execution and accountability which need to be
delegated to regional offices; and
g. study
existing work measurement units of agency programs and projects, for
purposes of identifying those units of work that are more suitable for
performance budgeting and evaluation and for use as decision packages
in the implementation of a zero-base budgeting approach.
3. The results of the work of budget officers performed under these instructions shall be collated in accordance with such procedure as may be found by them to be expeditious and shall be submitted to the President through the Commissioner of the Budget within ninety (90) days from date hereof.
Done in the City of Manila, this 13th day of December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-seven.
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