WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 203, dated 27 September 1994, created the Oversight and Executive Committees for the Social Reform Agenda;

WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 203 was amended by Executive Order No. 356, dated 12 July 1996, to provide for the expanded membership of the Social Reform Council and the implementing guidelines on the institutional arrangements to fast-track SRA Localization;

WHEREAS, the youth is a major sector in the implementation of the Social Reform Agenda;

WHEREAS, the National Youth Commission is mandated to oversee the national youth development program as stipulated in R.A. 8044;

WHEREAS, there is a need to include the National Youth Commission (NYC) in the Social Reform Council to ensure the integration and continuing interventions for the youth sector.

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 order the amendment of Executive Order No. 203, dated 27 September 1994, as amended by Executive Order No. 356, dated 12 July 1996, to include the National Youth Commission in the membership of the Social Reform Council.  The NYC, together with the Department of Social Welfare and Development, as the flagship champion for the Comprehensive and Integrated Development of Social Services and the youth sectoral council of leaders, shall spearhead and oversee the formulation of the National Youth Development Plan.

This Executive Order shall take effect immediately.

DONE, in the City of Manila, this 16th day of December, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety Six.

(SGD.) FIDEL V. RAMOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(SGD.) RUBEN D. TORRES
Executive Secretary