PROVIDING FOR THE CREATION OF THE NATIONAL PROGRAM FOR UNIFICATION AND DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL (NPUDC) AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

WHEREAS, a primary objective of the Government is
to pursue a genuine and lasting peace based on the principles of a
comprehensive peace process;

WHEREAS, one of the major components of a
comprehensive peace process in the provision of programs for reconciliation,
reintegration into the mainstream of society, and rehabilitation through
community-based assistance programs to address, among other things, the
socio-economic needs of former rebels, demobilized combatants, and civilian
victims of the internal armed conflicts;

WHEREAS, there is a need to formulate and implement
an economic component of national unification on the pursuit of a comprehensive
peace process;

WHEREAS, the economic component of national
unification shall be principled, fair to all concerned and shall translate
economic programs into subsequent opportunities for socio-economic empowerment;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order:

SECTION 1. The National Program for Unification
and Development (NPUD). – The National Program for Unification and
Development is hereby established to coordinate and integrate an economic
component of national unification focusing on programs, projects and efforts
addressing the socio- economic needs of the various beneficiaries;

SEC. 2. The National Program for Unification and
Development Council. – The National Program for Unification and Development
Council (NPUDC) is hereby created to coordinate, integrate and implement the
National Program for Unification and Development, composed of the following:

SEC. 3. Powers and Functions of the NPUDC
Council. — The NPUD Council shall have the following powers and functions:

a. Formulate and implement policies, plans and
component programs of the National Program for Unity and Development (NPUD);

b. Encourage participation of non-government
organizations, people’s organizations and the private sector in NPUD;

c. Identify additional sources of technical and
financial assistance for NPUD;

d. Monitor and evaluate the progress of NPUD.

SEC. 4. The Executive Director and the
Secretariat. – There shall be a Secretariat at the national level to be
headed by an Executive Director who shall also act as Secretary to the Council.

The Secretariat shall handle the administrative,
operational and technical activities of the NPUD Council. Specifically, the
Secretary shall prepare plan and programs for the consideration of the Council;
supervise, direct and monitor for the Council the implementation of approved
policies, plans and programs as well as undertake liaisoning and coordinating
activities with the appropriate agencies of government.

SEC. 5. Program Implementation and Coordination
at the Regional Level. – The National Program for Unification and
Development Council is hereby authorized to establish in every region a
Regional Program for Unification and Development Council (RPUDC). This regional
council shall be composed of the Chairman of the Regional Development Council,
the Chairman of the Regional Peace and Order Council, and a third member shall
be chosen by both of them in consultation with the Presidential Adviser on the Peace
Process. Among themselves, they shall elect the Chairman of the Regional
Program for Unification and Development Council.

SEC. 6. Program Implementation and Coordination
at the Provincial City and Municipal Levels. – The National Program for
Unification and Development Council shall further establish corresponding,
councils at the provincial, city, and municipal levels to be composed by the
Chairman of the Development Council and the Chairman of the Peace and Order
Council who, in turn, shall together select one (1) representative from the
private sector, in consultation with the Presidential Adviser on the Peace
Process, as the third member. Among themselves, they shall also elect a
Chairman.

SEC. 7. Budgetary Support. – The National
Program for Unification and Development shall be funded with an initial budget
to be taken from the President’s Contingent Fund and the National Fund in the
amount to be recommended by the National Program for the Unification
Development Council and approved by the President. Appropriations for
succeeding years shall be incorporated in budget proposal of the Office of the
President.

SEC. 8. Transition Mechanisms. – Until such
time that the Secretariat for the National Program for Unification and
Development Council is fully organized and operational, the National
Reconciliation and Development Council Secretariat created under Executive
Order No. 103 (s. 1986) shall continue to provide staff support to the NPUD
Council, in the implementation of the government’s unification and development
efforts. It shall be under the direct control and supervision of the NPUD
Council.

All assets, choses in action, equipment,
facilities, funds, records and other properties, as well as the personnel of
the NRDC Secretariat, are hereby transferred to the Secretariat of the National
Program for Unification and Development Council.

SEC. 9. Repealing Clause. – All orders,
rules and regulations and other issuances or parts thereof, which are
inconsistent with this Executive Order, are hereby repealed or modified
accordingly.

SEC. 10. Effectivity. – This Executive Order
shall take effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this
21st day of January, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Four.

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

By the
President:

(Sgd.) TEOFISTO
T. GUINGONA, JR.
Executive Secretary

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