Legal basis and administrative policy framework
- Civil Service Commission (CSC) Memorandum Circular No. 1 (dated January 26, 2001) adopts revised policies on PRAISE and serves as the governing framework for the creation of the committee.
- Memorandum Order No. 12 is issued in reliance on CSC-MC No. 1, s. 2001, which provides for the adoption of revised policies on PRAISE.
- The committee’s core work is to align OP awards administration with the revised OP performance system, specifically the Revised OP ESIAS consistent with CSC-MC No. 1, s. 2001.
Purpose and policy intent
- The OP-PRAISE Committee is created to support awards and incentives for service excellence within the Office of the President.
- The committee is tasked to ensure that awards and incentives are administered through a continuing system covering employees at all levels.
- The committee’s responsibilities include identifying and managing productivity, innovativeness, suggestions, and exemplary behavior for incentives and awards.
- The committee is designed to develop, administer, monitor, and evaluate an awards and incentives system for OP.
Committee composition and membership
- The OP-PRAISE Committee is created and must be composed of the following:
- The Chairman shall be a Senior Official Designee of the Executive Secretary.
- The Vice Chairman shall be the Head, Human Resource Management Office.
- The committee shall have the following members:
- Head, Finance Office
- Head, Legal Office
- A Representative for 1st Level Positions
- A Representative for 2nd Level Position
- The committee structure is expressly organized around executive representation and heads of functional offices, with employee-level representation at 1st Level and 2nd Level.
Core functions and operating responsibilities
- The OP-PRAISE Committee must prepare the Revised OP ESIAS in consonance with CSC-MC No. 1, s. 2001.
- The committee must ensure that productivity, innovativeness, suggestions, and exemplary behavior are identified, considered, managed, and implemented on a continuing basis to cover employees at all levels.
- The committee must be responsible for the development, administration, monitoring and evaluation of the awards and incentives system of OP.
- The committee must establish its own internal procedures and strategies.
- The committee must recommend to the Executive Secretary its proposed annual budget to cover necessary expenses incurred in granting both monetary and non-monetary awards, in accordance with the Revised OP ESIAS.
Budgeting, guidelines, and administrative support
- The committee must submit to the Executive Secretary its proposed annual budget for all necessary expenses related to awarding monetary and non-monetary awards.
- The OP-PRAISE Committee is authorized to propose necessary guidelines to cover situations not specifically covered by Memorandum Order No. 12.
- The Human Resources Management Office must provide the committee secretarial and administrative support.
Effective date and implementing direction
- Memorandum Order No. 12 takes effect immediately.
- The OP-PRAISE Committee is established as the responsible body to implement the OP awards and incentives system through the functions and authorities assigned.
- The operational linkage to OP’s awards system is anchored on the Revised OP ESIAS aligned with CSC-MC No. 1, s. 2001.