Question & AnswerQ&A (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 319)
The main purpose is to institutionalize the Moral Recovery Program (MRP) in all government departments, offices, agencies, and government-owned or controlled corporations through the establishment of Integrity Circles.
The Preamble of the 1987 Constitution emphasizing a just and humane society under truth, justice, freedom, love, equality and peace, and Article II, Section 21, which mandates the state to maintain honesty, integrity in public service and take positive measures against graft and corruption.
The vision of the MRP is a Filipino nation that is God-centered, people-empowered, prosperous, living in unity, justice, freedom, love and peace, governed by a visionary, democratic, responsive, effective, graft-free, transparent, and self-corrective government with professional, competent, disciplined, and trustworthy civil and military servants.
The Moral Recovery Program National Secretariat, through the constituted Government Sector Core Group, monitors the implementation via the designated Moral Recovery Officer (MRO) of each agency.
The MRO initiates the formation of Integrity Circles or similar mechanisms and activities to promote personal change and systematic and structural change within the agency.
Each agency must allocate 1% of their Human Resource Development (HRD)/Training appropriation for the initial implementation of their agency MRP. Additional funding may be provided by the Department of Budget and Management.
Integrity Circles are mechanisms established within government agencies aimed at laying the foundations of the moral recovery crusade by infusing Filipino core values into the organization's culture, systems, and processes.
No, while EO No. 319 mandates all government departments, agencies and government-owned or controlled corporations to establish the MRP, Proclamation No. 62 declared it an official government policy enjoining active participation of all sectors in Filipino society.
It seeks to address ongoing issues of graft and corruption, lack of discipline, dishonesty, patronage, and other unethical behaviors tainting public service despite previous efforts and existing laws like R.A. No. 6713.
It took effect immediately upon its adoption on April 3, 1996.