WHEREAS, the Medium-Term Philippine Development Plan (MTPDP) for 1987-1992, including the supportive regional development plans and investment programs, had been adopted pursuant to Proclamation No. 51, S. of 1986;

WHEREAS, the recent earthquake and other natural calamities around the country have caused substantial loss of lives, and considerable damage to private and public property and infrastructure;

WHEREAS, there is an urgent need to consider the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the regions, provinces, cities and municipalities affected by the earthquake and other natural calamities, to minimize the economic disruption in these places and to obviate possible adverse consequences on our stabilization and growth objectives in the medium-term;

WHEREAS, the rehabilitation and the reconstruction of the affected areas would need the full cooperation, as well as timely and decisive actions, of all concerned agencies at the national, the regional and the sub-regional levels, including the Regional and Local Development Councils;

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 National Economic and Development Authority is hereby directed to review and update the Medium-Term Philippine Development Plan for 1990 to 1992 for the purpose integrating therein a reconstruction and development program for the regions, provinces, cities and municipalities devastated by the recent earthquake and the other natural calamities that visited our country.

For this purpose, the NEDA Director General is hereby instructed to convene the Inter-Agency Technical Sub-Committee created under NEDA Memorandum Order 2-86 dated May 13, 1986 which shall submit its recommendations to the NEDA Board on or before October 31, 1990.

SECTION 2. All the line departments and agencies shall augment their respective personnel complement in the areas affected by the recent earthquake and other natural calamities to enable the expeditious formulation of the reconstruction and development program, including the physical framework, by the respective Regional, Provincial, City and Municipal Development Councils.

SECTION 3. The NEDA Director General is hereby authorized to constitute Inter-Agency Task Forces as may be necessary, and issue the appropriate guidelines to implement this Administrative order.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 30th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety.


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