Rationalizing Office of the President Functions

Executive Order No. 67 is issued under the President’s power of control over all executive departments, bureaus and offices under Section VH of the 1987 Constitution.
Executive Order No. 67 is issued consistent with the President’s continuing authority to reorganize the OP under Section 31, Chapter 10, Title III, Book II of EO No. 292 (s. 1987).

Executive Order No. 67 advances a right-sizing policy to streamline mandates under relevant offices to avoid duplication of functions and enhance responsiveness.
Executive Order No. 67 aims to rationalize OP functions to strengthen oversight over the executive department and streamline internal OP mandates.
Executive Order No. 67 promotes greater efficiency, agency convergence, and participatory governance in delivering essential public services at the grassroots level.
Executive Order No. 67 is designed to eliminate roadblocks and impediments to attaining the Administration’s ten-point socio-economic agenda and development goals articulated in the Philippine Development Plan.

Section 1 transfers the supervision over certain agencies under or attached to the Office of the President as follows:
- Technical Education and Skills Development Authority and the Cooperative Development Authority to the Department of Trade and Industry.
- National Commission on Muslim Filipinos, Philippine Commission on Women, and the National Youth Commission to the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG).
- National Anti-Poverty Commission, National Commission on Indigenous Peoples, and the Presidential Commission on the Urban Poor to the Department of Social Welfare and Development.
The transferred agencies must harmonize their policies and coordinate their programs and activities with their supervising departments.
The transferred agencies must simplify their systems and processes to ensure responsiveness and efficiency in delivering essential public services.
The transferred agencies’ harmonization and coordination must support attainment of the Administration’s ten-point socio-economic agenda and development goals under the Philippine Development Plan.

Section 2 organizes OP Proper functions under the right-sizing policy to avoid duplication and improve responsiveness.
Section 2(a) provides that the Executive Office has control and supervision over the STAR Office and all its constituent offices under EO No. 09.
Section 2(b) rebrands and reconstitutes the prior unit by providing that the Office of the Cabinet Secretary (OCS) shall be known by its former name, the Cabinet Secretariat.
Section 2(b) assigns the Cabinet Secretariat the function of assisting the President in:
- establishing agenda topics for Cabinet deliberation, and
- facilitating discussion of cabinet meetings.
The Cabinet Secretariat serves as the head secretariat of the different Cabinet Cluster secretariats and must continue to participate in Cabinet Cluster meetings and in the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Board and committee meetings.
Section 2(b) assigns the Presidential Management Staff (PMS) the duty to:
- monitor the implementation of presidential directives, cabinet decisions, and cabinet cluster directives, instructions, and commitments, and
- provide the Executive Office with policy inputs on the management of affairs of the Government.

Section 3 abolishes the Office of Participatory Governance (OPG) and the Performance and Projects Management Office (PPMO).
The functions of the OPG under EO No. 09 are absorbed by the DILG.
The functions of the PPMO are performed by the PMS as part of its mandates.

Section 4 provides separability: if any provision or part of Executive Order No. 67 is declared invalid, illegal, or unconstitutional, the remaining provisions remain in force and effect.
Section 5 provides repeal/merger effect: EO No. 99, EO No. 01, EO No. 09, and all other executive issuances, orders, rules and regulations, or parts thereof that are inconsistent with Executive Order No. 67 are amended, repealed, or modified accordingly.