Administrative Order No. 21 on the Revised Rules and Regulations Implementing the Social Reform and Poverty Alleviation Act.

Subject

Agricultural & rural development, Fisheries

Keyword

Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Agricultural development Poverty Public participation Education Gender Governance Indigenous peoples

Geographical area

Asia, Asia and the Pacific, East Asian Seas, North Pacific, South-Eastern Asia

Entry into force notes

This Administrative Order shall take effect immediately.

Abstract

This Administrative Order, consisting of eight Rules, establishes the Revised Rules and Regulations Implementing the Social Reform and Poverty Alleviation Act. These Rules are promulgated to proscribe the procedures and guidelines for the implementation of Title I of RA No. 8425. It is the policy of the State to: adopt a sustainable, integrated, area-based, sectoral and focused intervention to poverty alleviation wherein every poor Filipino family shall be empowered to meet its minimum basic needs of health, food and nutrition, water and environmental sanitation, income security, shelter and decent housing, peace and order, education and functional literacy, participation in governance and family care and psycho-social well-being; actively pursue asset reform or redistribution of productive economic resources to the basic sectors, including the adoption of a system of public spending which is targeted towards the poor; institutionalize and enhance the Social Reform Agenda (SRA), which embodies the results of the series of consultations and summits on poverty alleviation; adopt and operationalize the following principles and strategies as constituting the national framework integrating various structural reforms and anti-poverty initiatives: i Social reform shall be a continuing process that addresses the basic inequities in Philippine society through a systematic package of social interventions.

Full text

English

Website

www.gov.ph

References - Legislation

Amends

Republic Act No. 8425 institutionalizing the Social Reform and Poverty Alleviation Programme.

Legislation | Philippines | 1997

Keyword: Policy/planning, Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings, Agricultural development, Poverty, Public participation, Education, Gender, Governance, Indigenous peoples

Source: FAO, FAOLEX