Institutionalizing the Moral Recovery Program

The order anchors itself on the 1987 Constitution, which requires the state to maintain honesty, integrity in the public service, and take positive measures against graft and corruption (Article II, Section 21).
The order links to Proclamation No. 62 (September 30, 1992), which declared the Moral Recovery Program as official government policy and enjoined active participation of all sectors.
The order emphasizes that the MRP vision aims at a God-centered, people-empowered, prosperous national community living in Unity, Justice, Freedom, Love and Peace, with a government that is democratic, responsive, effective, graft-free, transparent, and self-corrective (preamble).
The order cites the need to strengthen moral resources and address continuing public service problems such as graft and corruption, lack of discipline, dishonesty, and patronage (preamble).

The order directs all covered government entities to establish Integrity Circles or any similar mechanism as a foundation for moral recovery by infusing Filipino core values into the organization’s culture, systems, and processes (Section 1).
The order treats the MRP as a continuing initiative requiring organization-level mechanisms that create both personal change and systematic and structural change within agencies (Section 3).
The order requires agencies to support the Integrity Circle efforts to develop role models at all levels and sectors and to prime moral recovery transformations among employees (Section 5).

All government departments, offices, agencies, instrumentalities, and government-owned and controlled corporations are enjoined to establish Integrity Circles or similar mechanisms (Section 1).
Each covered agency must ensure its designated Moral Recovery Officer (MRO) participates in the implementation and monitoring structure (Section 2).

The Moral Recovery Program National Secretariat—as the designated implementing arm of the MRP through the constituted Government Sector Core Group—shall monitor the implementation of MRP Integrity Circles across government agencies (Section 2).
Monitoring is carried out through the agency’s designated Moral Recovery Officer (MRO) (Section 2).
The agency’s MRO initiates the formation of Integrity Circles or similar mechanisms, strategies, and activities that evolve mass action to affect personal change and lead to appropriate systematic and structural change within the agency (Section 3).

Each agency must allocate 1% of its Human Resource Development (HRD)/Training appropriation for the initial implementation of the agency’s MRP (Section 4).
Agencies may fund additional appropriation as determined by the Department of Budget and Management (Section 4).

Agencies must provide support to the MRP Integrity Circle efforts to prime moral recovery transformations among employees and to develop role models at all levels and sectors (Section 5).