Question & AnswerQ&A (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 99)
The main purpose of Executive Order No. 99, s. 2012 is to reconstitute and rename the Office of the Cabinet Secretariat as the Office of the Cabinet Secretary, define its powers and functions, provide for its support staff, and improve the coordination and implementation of the President's programs under the administration's Social Contract and Philippine Development Plan.
The Office of the Cabinet Secretary exercises powers such as facilitating the identification of priority areas and outcome-based targets, recommending detailed annual performance and project roadmaps, ensuring timely execution and monitoring of targets, representing the President in meetings to expedite inter-agency actions, assisting in information dissemination to the Cabinet, and other functions necessary to achieve its objectives.
The functions of the Inter-Agency Task Force created under Administrative Order No. 25 (s. 2011) were transferred to the Office of the Cabinet Secretary.
The PPMO is an office created under EO No. 99 tasked with facilitating the crafting, coordination, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of the Performance and Projects Roadmap, ensuring systematic delivery of the administration's targets aligned with its Social Contract and the PDP 2011-2016.
The Office of the Cabinet Secretary is headed by the Cabinet Secretary, who has the rank and emoluments of a Member of the Cabinet and reports directly to the President.
The Cabinet Secretary is a member of all Cabinet Clusters created under Executive Order No. 43 and participates to ensure coordination and implementation of Cabinet priorities.
The Performance and Projects Roadmap is a master plan of critical targets and annual deliverables aligned with the administration's Social Contract and the Philippine Development Plan, serving as a guide for implementing priority programs and monitoring results.
The PPMO is headed by an Executive Director with the rank of Undersecretary, assisted by two Assistant Secretaries and five Directors, all appointed by the President upon the recommendation of the Cabinet Secretary.
All government departments, agencies, bureaus, offices, including GOCCs, must provide full assistance and cooperation, designate a focal person of at least bureau director rank, and provide required information for the Office of the Cabinet Secretary to effectively perform its functions.
If any provision is held unconstitutional, the rest of the Executive Order shall remain in full force and effect, preserving the validity of unaffected provisions as specified in the separability clause.