Directive to Revise Crisis Management Manuals
- The President instructed the National Security Adviser (NSA) to review and revise the 2000 Crisis Management Manual.
- Existing government crisis management manuals were to be harmonized into the amended Crisis Management Manual.
Nature of the 21st Century Security Environment
- Increasingly complex security challenges require proactive, diverse, and collaborative approaches.
- Cooperation among government agencies and stakeholders is crucial for crisis preparation, prevention, mitigation, and recovery.
Essential Elements of Effective Crisis Management
- Situation Awareness
- Strategy
- Command and Control
- Capability Building and Enhancement
- Post-Action and Assessment
Need for Clear Authority and Accountability
- Establish authority, responsibility, and accountability for crisis management organizations and Incident Command Systems.
- Clearly define roles from national to local levels.
Development of Crisis Management Manuals
- Practical Guide for National Crisis Managers (Strategic manual for Cabinet Officers Primarily Responsible/C-OPRs).
- National Crisis Management Core Manual (Core Manual) harmonizes all government crisis management manuals with a general framework.
- Core Manual addresses strategic, operational, and tactical levels and guides agencies in preparing operational manuals, contingency plans, and crisis action plans.
Definitions of Operational Plans
- Operational manuals outline agency principles, provisions, and functional guidelines.
- Contingency plans address emerging threats by targeting root causes and preventive measures.
- Crisis Action Plans specify actions to mitigate immediate adverse effects of crises.
Designation of Responsible Agency
- Specific government agency designated to disseminate approved manuals.
- Ensure agency adoption of policies, procedures, and creation/designation of crisis response organizations.
Section 1: Framework and Application
- Core Manual is the overarching framework for national crisis management.
- All government levels must harmonize operational manuals, contingency, and crisis action plans for human-induced crises.
- Practical Guide serves as a concise reference for C-OPRs.
Section 2: Crisis Management Organization Structure
- EXECOM/NCMC (Executive Committee of the National Security Council) is the highest policy and decision-making body nationally.
- EXECOM composed of the President or Executive Secretary as Chairperson, NSA, and key Cabinet Secretaries.
- Sub-Committee chaired by NSA conducts Horizon Scanning and recommends responses.
- Local Crisis Management Committees at regional, provincial, municipal/city, and barangay levels act as local decision bodies.
- Permanent offices for crisis response designated in agencies.
- Preparation and updating of operational manuals and plans mandated.
Section 3: Roles and Responsibilities of C-OPRs
- Executive Secretary leads responses to terrorism, maritime border threats (inter-agency), and OFW threats (inter-agency).
- Secretary of National Defense leads national security threats and maritime border threats (intra-agency).
- Secretary of Interior and Local Government handles peace and order threats.
- Secretary of Foreign Affairs manages OFW and maritime border threats (intra-agency).
- Secretary of Health manages public health threats.
- Secretaries of Finance and Trade and Industry responsible for economic threats.
- Secretary of Energy manages energy supply threats.
Section 4: The 5Ps Crisis Management Framework
- Predict: Conduct Horizon Scanning and Situation Awareness at all levels.
- Prevent: Prepare/update contingency and crisis action plans.
- Prepare: Organize, train, equip, exercise, and evaluate capabilities continuously.
- Perform: Declare crisis level incidents; activate Incident Command System; develop Crisis Action Plans.
- Post-Action and Assessment: Produce reports and assessments for higher committees.
Section 5: Role of the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA)
- Secretariat of EXECOM/NCMC.
- Ensure dissemination of manuals nationwide.
- Conduct training on crisis management processes.
- Facilitate regular desktop, table, and simulation exercises.
Section 6: Funding Provisions
- Initial Php 25 million allocated from Presidential Contingency Fund for initial operationalization.
- Future funding included in ONSA’s annual appropriations.
- Agencies must allocate sufficient funds for crisis prevention per RA 10121 and DILG-DBM Memorandum Circular 2011-1.
Section 7: Repealing Clause
- All inconsistent orders, rules, and issuances are repealed, amended, or modified accordingly.
Section 8: Effectivity
- The Executive Order takes effect immediately upon publication in a newspaper of general circulation.