AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 208 (S. 1995) ENTITLED “FURTHER DEFINING THE COMPOSITION, POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON THE ROLE OF FILIPINO WOMEN”

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Section 1. Section 1 of
Executive Order No. 208 (S. 1995) is hereby amended to read as follows:

“SECTION 1. Composition
of the Commission. Consistent with P.D. No. 633, and until otherwise
directed by the President, the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women,
hereinafter referred to as the ‘Commission’, shall be composed of the following
members:

“1.1 A Chairperson who shall be
appointed by the President.

“1.2 The Secretaries of the
following Departments who shall sit in the Commission as ex-officio
members: Labor and Employment (DOLE); National Economic Development Authority
(NEDA); Social Welfare and Development (DSWD); Agriculture (DA); Education,
Culture and Sports (DECS); Health (DOH); Foreign Affairs (DFA); Interior and
Local Government (DILG); Trade and Industry (DTI); and Budget and Management
(DBM).

The Secretaries mentioned are
authorized to designate an Undersecretary to represent them.

“1.3. Twelve (12) private sector
representatives: eleven (11) of whom shall be selected from the following
sectors – (a) Labor, (b) Business and Industry, (c) Science and Health, (d)
Education or Academe, (e) Urban Poor, (f) Indigenous Peoples, (g) Peasants and
Fisherfolks (h) Elderly and Disabled, (i) Media and Arts, (j) representative of
the National Council of Women in the Philippines.

The incumbent members of the
Commission, however, shall continue in office unless replaced or removed from
office by the President.”

Section 2. Two (2) new sections
between Sections 5 and 6 of Executive Order No. 208 are hereby inserted as
follows:

“SEC. 6. New Staffing
Pattern. – The Commission is hereby authorized to review, and with the
approval of the Department of Budget and Management, revise its staffing
pattern to effectively and efficiently undertake and accomplish its functions.

“SEC. 7. Funding.
– The initial funding requirements for the implementation of this Order shall
be charged against the current appropriations of the Commission. The Department
of Budget and Management is directed to coordinate and assist the Commission in
identifying and determining the appropriate sources and amounts of the funds to
cover deficiencies in the Commission’s requirements. Thereafter, funding
requirements of the Commission shall be imposed incorporated in the General
Appropriations Act.”

Section 3. Section 6 of
Executive Order No. 208 is redenominated as Section 8.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 4th day of August, in the year of Our
Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Five.

(Sgd.) FIDEL
V. RAMOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) RUBEN D. TORRES
Executive Secretary

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