EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 161

: The main purpose of Executive Order No. 161 is to prescribe the adoption of new standard forms to be accomplished by officials and employees for overseas training, ensuring a stricter and more binding commitment between the government agency and the grantee through a modified scholarship service contract.
: They are required to fill up a travel data sheet and, in proper cases, a training/scholarship agreement.
: Executive Order No. 129, as amended, which provides that a training contract shall bind the scholar with his/her country and agency to render service corresponding to the period of the training or scholarship grant.
: The training contract should clearly define the effects or penalties for failure to comply with the conditions set forth in the scholarship or training grant.
: The inclusion of a guarantor, who is a close relative of the grantee, to defray the total cost of expenditures related to the training or scholarship.
: The Special Committee on Scholarships approved it through Resolution No. 4, dated June 26, 1992.
: It applies to all agencies and offices of national and local government that send officials and employees abroad for training or scholarship purposes.
: They are modified, amended, or repealed accordingly by this Executive Order.