QuestionsQuestions (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 319)
It is an Executive Order of the President that institutionalizes the Moral Recovery Program (MRP) in all government departments, offices, agencies, and GOCCs by requiring the establishment of “Integrity Circles” or similar mechanisms to infuse core moral values into organizational culture, systems, and processes.
All government departments, offices, agencies, instrumentalities, and government-owned and controlled corporations (GOCCs).
It cites Article II, Section 21 of the 1987 Constitution, which provides that the State shall maintain honesty and integrity in the public service and take positive measures against graft and corruption.
Proclamation No. 62 (Sept. 30, 1992), which declared the Moral Recovery Program as official government policy and enjoined active participation of all sectors.
It requires agencies to establish Integrity Circles (or similar mechanisms) initiated through the designation and action of the agency’s Moral Recovery Officer (MRO).
It monitors the implementation of MRP Integrity Circles through the Government Sector Core Group and the agencies’ designated Moral Recovery Officers.
The MRO initiates the formation of Integrity Circles or similar mechanisms, strategies, and activities aimed at mass action for personal change and systematic/structural change within the agency.
They are intended to evolve mass action that affects personal change and leads to appropriate systematic and structural change within the agency.
Agencies must allocate 1% of their Human Resource Development (HRD)/Training appropriation for the initial implementation of their agency MRP.
Additional appropriation may be funded as determined by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM).
Agencies must support the Integrity Circle efforts to prime moral recovery transformations among employees and develop role models at all levels and sectors.
It focuses on government institutions (departments, offices, agencies, instrumentalities, and GOCCs) and mandates internal mechanisms (Integrity Circles) while aiming for broader moral recovery through employees and role models at all levels and sectors.
It takes effect immediately, as stated in Section 6.
EO No. 319 acknowledges prior issuance of RA No. 6713 but states that graft and corruption, lack of discipline, dishonesty, patronage, etc., continue to taint the public service—thus it institutionalizes Moral Recovery through Integrity Circles.
The Third National Summit on Peace and Order, where a Covenant for Peace and National Progress through moral enhancement and transformation was adopted, requiring action plans to be institutionalized.
A Filipino nation that is God-centered, people-empowered, prosperous, living in Unity, Justice, Freedom, Love and Peace; governed by a visionary democratic, responsive and effective government that is graft-free, transparent and self-corrective, with professional, competent, disciplined, trustworthy civil and military servants.
No. It states that agencies must establish Integrity Circles or “any similar mechanism,” indicating flexibility as long as the moral recovery foundations are addressed.