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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS
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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 36-B
TO
:
The Executive Secretary
All Department/Agency Heads
Concomitant with the organization of a corps of Presidential Regional Officers for Development, (PROD) pursuant to Letter of Instructions No. 36 and 36-A, there is hereby established a complimentary corps of Coordinating Officers for Program Execution (COPE) who shall assist the President in effecting, on a national scale, the speedy and coordinated implementation of major programs of reform particularly those included in the "PLEDGES" of Government.
The following officials and agencies are hereby designated Coordinating Officers for Program Execution (COPE) and Action Agency, respectively, for each of the Major Programs indicated below:
Program
COPE Action Agency
Peace and Order:
Law and
Order The Chief, PC DND
Administration of Mr. Paciencio
Magtibay, Dept. of Justice
Justice POCC
Public
Information The Chief, OCR, GHQ,
AFP DPI
Land Reform
Mr. Jose Medina, Jr. DAR DAR
Economic Development:
Price
Stabilization Mr. Roberto Fronda,
DANR/ PCC
NFAC
Agriculture Mr. Roberto Abling, DMS
DANR
Exploration
& Survey
Operations Mr. Luis Mirasol, Jr.,
DMS DANR
Infrastructure
Mr. Carlos Leano, DPWTC/
Foreign-Assisted
IOC DPWTC
Projects Mr. Ruben Ancheta, PES
NEDA
Industry Mr.
Araulfo Ramirez, DMS BOI
Trade and
Tourism Mr. Cesar Templo, OP DTT
Government Financial
& Fiscal
Operations Mr. Victor Macalingcag,
DF Dept. of Finance
Cooperatives
Mr. Cayetano Sarmago, DMS DLGCD
Power
Development Mr. Arthur Alvendia DMS
NPC
Rural
Electrification Mr. Roberto de Ocampo,
NEA NEA
Provincial & Community
Development Mr. Gregorio Vigilar,
PDAP DLGCD
Development of Moral
Values thru
Educational
Reforms Mr. Felix Santos, DE Dept.
of
Education
Government
Reorganization Mr. Abelardo Samonte,
CR Reorg.
Commission
Employment and
Manpower
Development Mr. Romy Diaz, NMYC
Dept. of Labor
Social Services:
Health Dr. Jesus Almonte, DH Dept.
of Health
Welfare Mr. Abraham Campo, PES DSW
Housing and
Resettlement Mr. Jaime Venago,
PAHRA PAHRA
Family
Planning Mr. Conrado Lorenzo,
Population
Pop
Com Commission
Except for the Chief PC, whose terms of reference shall be prescribed separated by me thru the Secretary of National Defense, the duties and responsibilities of the Coordinating Officers for Program Execution designated herein shall be governed by the general policy guidelines outlined in the Letter of Instructions No. 36 as well as by the following specific terms of reference:
1.
Each COPE shall be under the direct supervision of
the Head of the Action Agency designated for his Program, provided such
Agency Head is of Cabinet Rank. Otherwise, he shall be under the direct
supervision of the Executive Secretary. The Cabinet shall serve as the
coordinating body for all operational activities of the COPEs.
2. Each COPE
shall, on a continuing basis, monitor
the conduct and/or progress of all projects and activities that fall
directly under, or are indirectly related to, the national program
assigned to him; identify major problem areas and their causes; and
institute or recommend the necessary corrective measures to the Action
Agency concerned.
a.
The COPE is hereby empowered to cut across normal
decision-making channels to secure the coordinating action/decisions
required, which he shall subsequently cause to be speedily effected
throughout the total system of program execution.
b. In no case
shall the COPE establish himself as a
separate or distinct layer of authority thru which decisions affecting
program implementation must pass.
3. The COPE shall completely familiarized himself with all the projects and activities that fall directly under, or are indirectly related, the national program assigned to him. He shall check and ensure that the policy guidelines and program of implementation established at the national level are transmitted, understood, and complied with throughout the total system of program execution.
4. The COPE shall establish a close working relationship with key officials of the various local, regional, and national government agencies who are involved, directly or indirectly, in his program of responsibility. In problem areas where interagency or inter-regional coordination is a crucial factor, he is hereby empowered to call upon such officials/agencies to constitute, on an ad hoc basis, Action Coordinating Teams (ACT) as may be necessary to expedite over-all program implementation.
5. Directives by the COPE shall be made in the name of the Action Agency Head concerned, in writing, in a standard quick disposition form (to be prescribed) that can be readily issued and acknowledged on the spot. All such directives shall be recorded in a log book which the COPE shall maintain for ready reference, follow-up, and periodic review by the Action Agency Head concerned, as well as by the Cabinet.
Whereas the primary concern of the PROD designated under Letter of Instructions No. 36-A is the speedy and coordinated implementation of all priority programs on a regional basis, the primary concern of the COPE designated herein shall be the speedy and coordinated implementation of each priority program on a national scale. Likewise, whereas the PROD shall primarily be output-oriented in his approach to problems at the execution level, the COPE shall primarily be input-oriented in his approach to such problems.
There is therefore an interest necessity, as it is hereby made a mandatory requirement, that a closed-knit operational interlink be established between and among each and every COPE and PROD. The following common and complementary terms of reference are hereby prescribed to avoid overlapping or conflicting actions.
1.
In no case should either a COPE or a PROD
institute or recommend corrective action without first having verified
whether an identified problem area/bottleneck has already been acted
upon.
2. In all
cases, a COPE or a PROD shall immediately
advise all officials concerned, particularly the Action Agency Head
concerned, of any action taken on problem areas within his sphere of
responsibility.
The terms of reference prescribed for the Executive Secretary in Letter of Instructions No. 36-A relative to the establishment of the operational system for the PROD are hereby made applicable to the COPE. The Executive Secretary shall accordingly amend the tasks assigned to the Development Management Staff to include the compilation of Program Manuals containing a complete and up-to-date inventory of all projects and activities that fall directly under, or are indirectly related to, each of the Major Programs comprising the "PLEDGES" of Government.
The duties and responsibilities attendant to the designations made herein shall be concurrent and additional to the regular duties and responsibilities of COPEs in their respective organic assignments. The Cabinet, thru the Executive Secretary, shall continuously monitor their workload and performance and shall submit to the President recommendations for changes in COPE-designates when the situation so warrants.
Done in the City of Manila, this 29th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-two.
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