Policy, purpose, and intent
- Executive Order No. 343 strengthens the government machinery for coordinating the mass housing program.
- Executive Order No. 343 improves the effectiveness of the committee created under Executive Order No. 215.
- Executive Order No. 343 is intended to hasten the national program for housing and resettlement for the homeless.
- Executive Order No. 343 aims for closer coordination among agencies involved in housing, urban resettlement, and allied activities.
Amended committee leadership
- Executive Order No. 343 designates the Secretary of Public Works and Communications as the Executive Director of the committee created under Executive Order No. 215.
- The Secretary of Public Works and Communications assumes the committee’s executive functions under the amended structure.
- Executive Order No. 343 transfers the Action Officer function so that the prior Committee’s Action Officer becomes a Member of the Committee.
- Executive Order No. 343 keeps the committee as the policy-and-decision body while concentrating execution in the newly designated Executive Director.
Executive Director functions and responsibilities
- The Executive Director coordinates and implements the policies enunciated and decisions made by the Committee.
- The Executive Director performs the committee’s executive role after the amendment.
- The Executive Director operates with organizational support from a technical staff and secretariat provided under the housing and resettlement agency framework identified in the order.
Technical staff and secretariat support
- The Executive Director is assisted by a Technical Staff and a Secretariat under the Presidential Assistant on Housing and Resettlement Agency.
- The Technical Staff provides assistance to the Executive Director in supporting committee operations.
- The Secretariat provides technical and secretarial services to the Committee.
- The Technical Staff consists of representatives of the Committee Members and additional technical personnel selected by the Executive Director.
Governance and coordination targets
- Executive Order No. 343 requires strengthened coordination among agencies concerned with housing and urban resettlement.
- Executive Order No. 343 expressly focuses coordination on the activities of People’s Homesite and Housing Corporation, National Housing Corporation, Social Security System, and Government Service Insurance System.
- The amendment anchors closer coordination of these agencies through the committee leadership and the Executive Director’s execution mandate.