WHEREAS, in order to ensure enhanced productivity in government operations, it is necessary to expand the membership of the Government Productivity Improvement Program Council created under Administrative Order No. 38, dated September 30, 1987, by the inclusion of other vital government agencies; and

WHEREAS, the Department of Local Government (DLG) and the Department of Education, Culture and Sports (DECS) have a critical role in providing frontline services of the Government.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order:

SECTION 1. The first paragraph of Section 3 of Administrative Order No. 38, dated September 30, 1987, is hereby amended to read as follows:

œSECTION 3. The Government Productivity Improvement Program Council (GPIP Council). There is hereby created a Government Productivity Improvement Program Council (GPIP Council), hereafter referred to as the Council, which shall be the primary policy-making and overall coordinating body of the program. It shall be composed of the Secretary of the Budget and Management as Chairman, and the President of the Development Academy of the Philippines, the Secretaries of Trade and Industry, Agriculture, Public Works and Highways, Socio-Economic Planning, Local Government, and Education, Culture and Sports, the Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, the Undersecretary of the Presidential Management Staff, and the Director-General of the Philippine Information Agency, as members. 

SECTION 2. This Administrative order shall take effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 21stday of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-eight.


By the President:
(Sgd.) CATALINO MACARAIG, JR.
Executive Secretary