QuestionsQuestions (Republic Act No. 10789)
It cites Article X, Section 4 (President’s general supervision over LGUs) and Article X, Section 14 (President to provide for regional development councils or similar bodies for administrative decentralization).
Negros Oriental and Negros Occidental, including their cities, municipalities, and barangays.
Administrative regions are meant to promote government efficiency, accelerate social and economic development, and improve public services.
A Technical Working Group composed of the Office of the President (OP), DBM, NEDA, DILG, and representatives of Negros Oriental and Negros Occidental.
It must formulate a roadmap for institutional arrangements by 2015–2016; recommend the preferred Regional Center; arrange requirements for organizational development, staffing, budgeting of regional line and regulatory agencies; and address development planning and investment programming imperatives.
Negros Island Development Council; Negros Island Peace and Order Council; and Negros Island DRRM Council.
Negros Island Development Council—NEDA Secretariat; Negros Island Peace and Order Council—DILG as Secretariat; Negros Island DRRM Council—Office of Civil Defense (OCD) as Secretariat.
To clarify that even while the TWG is working on institutional arrangements, the councils and their interim secretariats are already activated.
The TWG focuses on preparing the institutional arrangements; the Regional Councils operate simultaneously with interim secretariats to support governance functions during the transition.
From the implementing agencies of the NIR-TWG and the provinces making up the NIR, subject to availability of funds and compliance with applicable laws and budget/accounting/auditing rules.
All departments, bureaus, offices, agencies, instrumentalities (including GOCCs and government financial institutions) must extend full assistance to the NIR-TWG.
It repeals, amends, or modifies any existing orders, issuances, rules, or regulations inconsistent with EO No. 183.
The separability clause: if any provision is declared invalid or unconstitutional, the rest remain valid and subsisting.
Immediately upon its publication in a newspaper of general circulation.
OCD is designated as the interim secretariat for the Negros Island DRRM Council.
DILG acts as interim secretariat for the Negros Island Peace and Order Council, and it is also part of the NIR-TWG.
NEDA is part of the NIR-TWG and serves as the interim secretariat for the Negros Island Development Council.