Urban Asset Reform Project Management Office EO

The UARPMO is tasked with developing ideas inspired by economist Hernando de Soto.
The focus is on integrating formal and informal settlements into a unified legal system.
This framework serves as the foundation for Philippine urban asset reform.

The Office of the President initiates the urban asset reform program through the UARPMO.
The UARPMO coordinates social acceptance, advocacy campaigns, and sourcing of project funds from Official Development Assistance (ODA).
It builds capacity within the Presidential Commission on the Urban Poor (PCUP) for managing asset transformation in informal sectors.
The Deputy Executive Secretary for Finance and Administration handles administrative operations of the UARPMO.

The UARPMO operates under the Office of the President.
All government departments, agencies, or instrumentalities are mandated to cooperate with the UARPMO to fulfill its objectives.

To introduce a socially accepted property system integrating urban poor settlers into the mainstream economy.
To create mechanisms within the PCUP empowering settlers to legalize extralegal and business assets.
To establish legal instruments for mobilizing and allocating formalized assets and businesses of poor settlers for productive use.

Conduct research and field studies to gather reference information and assess institutional/systemic practices and challenges.
Review Hernando de Soto's proposals and comparative models, then recommend appropriate actions to the President.
Implement an intensive advocacy program to secure social acceptance from all stakeholders.
Facilitate preparation of frameworks to transform estate systems and improve titling in informal settlements.
Enable formation of productive ties and networks among newly formalized poor owners, entrepreneurs, and other sectors.

The UARPMO utilizes resources from the former ODA Absorption Office.
Funding comes from savings of the former office and annual budget allocations.
Future budget proposals are incorporated in the Office of the President’s submissions.
The UARPMO absorbs equipment, facilities, office space, and qualified personnel from the former ODA Absorption Office.

Any executive issuances, orders, rules, or regulations inconsistent with this order are revoked, amended, or modified accordingly by this Executive Order.