March 6, 1995

PROCLAMATION NO. 547

ADOPTING AN OFFICIAL DEFINITION OF SOCIAL REFORM AGENDA (SRA) PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS FOR BUDGETARY AND OTHER PURPOSES

WHEREAS, government agencies must reflect Social Reform Agenda programs and projects in their budget submission as priority, given that this is one of the priority programs of the Administration;

WHEREAS, synchronization in the planning and Budgeting of the Agenda package requires the adoption of a common definition of Social Reform Agenda programs and projects; and,

WHEREAS, this definition must take into account the thrusts of the Social Reform Agenda in prioritizing certain geographical areas and in converging Flagship Programs in clearly identified communities to ensure greater impact of these programs.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Republic of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declare the adoption of the following definition for Social Reform Agenda programs and projects in the 1996 General Appropriations Act and for other purposes:

1.         SRA programs, projects and activities are those responsive to the government commitments under the nine (9) social Reform Flagship Programs approved pursuant to Memorandum Order No. 213 dated 17 June 1994.

2.         These programs, projects and activities shall cater to the following Social Reform Agenda geographical focus:

2.1.      Nineteen (19) priority provinces for Poverty Alleviation, Countryside Development, and Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (CIDSS);

2.2.      Agrarian Reform Communities (ARCs) of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR);

2.3.      Certificate of Ancestral Domain Claims (CADCs) communities of Indigenous Peoples (IPs) especially within the nine (9) priority provinces identified by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR);

2.4.      Urban poor priority areas and resettlement sites especially in six (6) identified centers;

2.5.      Priority bays and lakes of the Department of Agriculture; and

2.6.      Other priority programs as may be determined by the Flagship champions.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

DONE, in the City of Manila, this 6th day of March, in the Year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Five.