QuestionsQuestions (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 70)
To institutionalize the Whole-of-Nation approach as a government policy for attaining inclusive and sustainable peace by harmonizing basic services, social development packages, societal inclusivity, and active participation of all sectors.
It is a whole-government and whole-society policy that prioritizes and harmonizes delivery of basic services and social development in conflict-affected/vulnerable communities, facilitates societal inclusivity, and ensures active participation of all sectors in the peace agenda.
Section 17, Article VII of the 1987 Constitution, which vests in the President control over all executive departments, bureaus, and offices and the mandate to ensure faithful execution of laws.
ASEAN’s Joint Communiqué of the 51st ASEAN Foreign Ministers meeting in Manila (05 August 2017), reaffirming the Whole-of-Nation approach as effective compared to a purely military option in combating terrorism and violent extremism.
A National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, created under the Office of the President (OP).
The President of the Philippines chairs the Task Force, and the National Security Adviser serves as Vice-Chair.
Examples include: Secretary of the Department of the Interior and Local Government; Secretary of the Department of Justice; Secretary of the Department of National Defense; Secretary of the Department of Public Works and Highways; Secretary of the Department of Budget and Management; Secretary of the Department of Finance; Secretary of the Department of Agrarian Reform; Secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development; Secretary of the Department of Education; Director General of NEDA; Director General of NICA; Chief of Staff of the AFP; Director General of the PNP; Chairperson of NCIP; among others.
Two (2) private sector representatives are appointed by the President upon recommendation of the Task Force, with a term of one (1) year each.
They may designate alternates with a rank not lower than an Assistant Secretary, authorized to decide on behalf of the member; names of alternates must be submitted to the National Secretariat.
Within six (6) months from the issuance of the Executive Order.
To ensure inter-agency convergence; enlist assistance of government departments/agencies/SUCs/GOCCs per mandates; evaluate/define/modify/integrate framework-related policies and programs; and organize ad hoc inter-agency and multi-sectoral clusters at national/regional/local levels when necessary.
Principles, policies, plans, and programs to bring inclusive and sustainable peace; address root causes of insurgencies, internal disturbances and tensions, and other armed conflicts/threats in identified areas; be responsive to local needs and sensitive to realities on the ground; and include a mechanism for localized peace engagements or negotiations/interventions nationally orchestrated, directed, and supervised while locally implemented.
All government departments, bureaus, offices, agencies/instrumentalities including GOCCs and SUCs must provide necessary support to the Task Force; private sector, NGOs, and other stakeholders are encouraged to participate.
The Task Force is assisted by a National Secretariat headed by an Executive Director appointed by the President with the rank of an Undersecretary.
An organizational and staffing pattern, submitted to DBM within two (2) months from appointment.
Charged against existing appropriations of member-agencies of the Task Force and other appropriate funding sources that DBM may identify, and when necessary, the Contingent Fund, subject to relevant laws, rules, and regulations.
The Task Force is rendered functus officio upon accomplishment of its purposes or unless sooner dissolved by the President.
If any provision is declared invalid, illegal, or unconstitutional, the remaining provisions not affected continue to be in force and effect.